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UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library – History and Special Collections Division

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This collection contains 625 posters from 44 countries which were created by a variety of institutions and organizations to educate and warn people about AIDS and to offer advice and information in visual form. (http://digital.library.ucla.edu/aidsposters/about.html)

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Audience not stated. Assumed audience would be students or adults of university age or older, social scientists, people involved in public policy, people interested in marketing and publicity, graphic artists.

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The site explains that the collection was acquired by the History and Special Collections division of the Biomedical Library in 2005, but it does not state from whom. It also does not explain if there was any special funding acquired to develop or maintain this collection. The library plans to continue expanding this collection, but there are no details about from where these additional posters will be acquired or how frequently.

How are the digital assetts presented?
Users can search and browse this digital collection. The basic search is a keyword search. There is also an advanced search feature and users can search up to four fields by keyword, title, description, creator, subject, or country. Advanced search results can be sorted by title or country. Users can browse by country, subject, creator, or title. Each of the terms under each subject category is listed alphabetically. It is not possible to browse multiple subjects at one time from this screen. It is also not possible to select terms from more than one of the four categories to browse at one time. If the user wants to browse multiple fields, the advanced search function must be used.

A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 72 thumbnails of posters are displayed on one screen at a time. There is the image, a link to the full record, the title of the poster, and an option to add the record to the users Virtual Collection.

When the user selects a poster, a new window opens. The user has an opportunity to zoom in on the poster .2x, .4x, .8x. 1.0x and 1.2x. The title of the poster in the original language and copyright permissions are listed under the image of the poster. Additional information in the record include the title, alternative titles, translations of the titles into English, creator(s) of the poster, current repository, dimensions of the poster in metric and English units, publication location, date, subjects (which are also links so the user can perform a new search based on subject) and any notes, which can include a textual description of the artwork in the poster and any text.

Other thoughts?
This digitization project offers users the handy feature to select records from this digital collection to create a personal collection known as a Virtual Collection. This Virtual Collection will be named by the user and can be accessible at later times if the user chooses to create an account. Users can view the Virtual Collections created by other users, but they cannot modify them in any way. The Help screen gives full instructions on how to set up and manage an account for the Virtual Collections.

Copyright permissions and protections are explained in the copyright link which is on the homepage for the collection. Owners of materials which have been included in the collection have an option to opt-out, and explanations on how to do so are provided, though the site encourages people to consider options other than opting-out completely, such as selectively limiting content to the material.

Credit is given for those involved in creating the collection. The names of the collection curator and project director are listed and a link provided to send them emails. The names of the people involved in advising, programming, and doing metadata creation are also listed, but with no link to an email address.

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Objective: To evaluate whether implementation of a therapeutic hypothermia protocol on arrival in a community hospital improved survival and neurologic outcomes in patients initially found to have ventricular fibrillation, pulseless electrical activity, or asystole, and then successfully resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Interventions: An active cooling therapeutic hypothermia protocol, using ice packs, cooling blankets, or cooling pads to achieve a temperature of 32°C to 34°C was initiated on November 18, 2002 for unconscious patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest.
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Conclusions: The therapeutic hypothermia period was associated with a significant improvement in neurologic outcomes in patients whose initial rhythm was ventricular fibrillation, but not in patients with other rhythms.

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More organizations and HR teams should be willing to experiment with web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. These are not “either-or” solutions. In an unknowable digital world, organizations should be experimenting with media according to the contingencies of their operations. This should should be embraced because experimentation provides a basis for dynamism and the ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and ex ternal competencies to addrses rrapidly-changingg environments.
There is a need for organizations to develop web 2.0 policies. Whether they are simple as in the case of Microsoft (“dont write anything on blogs that would get you into trouble”) or more formal is an important issue. Lets examine advice from organizations that are more advanced in their use of social media.

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