Thursday, July 19, 2007

LTDL wins the Rogers Award

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library was awarded the Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award by the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) at its 2007 annual meeting. The Rogers Award, sponsored by Thomson Scientific, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions for the application of technology to the delivery of health science information, to the science of information, or to the facilitation of the delivery of health science information. Rogers was the director of the National Library of Medicine from 1949 to 1963.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

New Collections and Features

Liggett & Myers Collection and RPCI Records Added

• Approximately 400,000 pages of Liggett & Myers internal documents have been added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. In 1997, Liggett & Myers, the smallest of the five major tobacco companies, became the first to settle lawsuits in 22 states and to help state prosecutors litigate against the nation’s biggest cigarette manufacturers by providing evidence of industry strategies and tactics. Because of their early compliance with prosecutors, L&M was not included in the Master Settlement Agreement stipulation for creation of company document websites, meaning these documents exist nowhere else in electronic format.The new Liggett & Myers collection can be searched in conjunction with the other tobacco company collections or as a single collection.
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has scanned the document collections of the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research whose collections also contain several thousand audiovisual tapes which focus primarily on tobacco industry public relations efforts. The records of these new resources have been integrated into the LTDL Multimedia Collection and are available for viewing through RPCI.

Basic Search Tutorial Available
Those new to the LTDL site can now view a tutorial that provides a quick overview of how to conduct a basic search on the documents. The tutorial can be found on the home page as well as on the Search Help page.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

The New LTDL Has Arrived!

As you can see, the LTDL has a different look and new features we hope will provide an improved research experience for all levels of users. If you have any problems with the site, questions about how to use some of the new features, or just want to give us feed back, please contact us by clicking on the "Questions or Comments?" link found on the left-hand menu of every page.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Community Training Workshop

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education is holding an annual one-day workshop in June for community-based advocates on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy. The workshop covers:
introduction to the on-line tobacco industry documents;
hands-on practice searching tobacco industry documents databases under the supervision of expert documents researchers;
examples of ways in which the documents can be of use for public health work in your community; and
opportunities to meet and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.

The workshop is held at the University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California. To receive information about the 2007 workshop, contact Jenni Alexander at jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Update on LTDL Redesign

The new version of LTDL is nearing completion! We expect to have this site fully functional on May 15, 2007, when it will replace the traditional LTDL site. We will keep you posted as the release date approaches.

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