The NYU Health Sciences Libraries created an account on Twitter, a microblogging service, as a new outreach tool marketed to students, faculty, and staff. The team used Twitter to promote resources, events, and news. Twitter is a part of a pipeline of information that also includes the library's Web site and Facebook. Although it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of a social networking tool, the overhead of using Twitter is so low that it merits consideration.

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This article provides an overview of the Apple iPhone, compares the phone to PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and other smartphones on the market, and examines possible uses of the iPhone in medical libraries. Medical software applications that are available for the iPhone via the Safari Web browser, such as Unbound Medicine, Epocrates, and Skyscape, are also discussed.

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