Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: A (Second) Database Tips Lightning Round: View the recording!

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On February 19, 2025, the Medical Library Association's User Experience (UX) Caucus held its second database tips lightning round. The event recording, chat transcript, and slide decks can be found in the files section of the UX Caucus' OSF site!

The presenters and their topics, with timestamps of when they appear in the video, were:

Sneaky Solution: Searching for Articles on Ethical Values (05:40)
Lorraine Porcello, MSLIS, MSIM, Position Title: Lead Librarian, Health Sciences 

RSS Feeds for Librarians: Tracking Subtopics and Trends (18:59)
Esther Garcia, Senior Health Science Librarian, Texas Woman’s University

Using Ovid's Basic Search Function to Build Search Strategies (34:58)
Bronwyn Sutherland, Liaison Librarian, Texas Medical Center Library

Quotations Around Single-Word Terms in PubMed (46:07)
Jules Bailey, Health Sciences Librarian, Florida State University Libraries

Special Characters in PubMed (59:23) [apologies, no closed captions for this presentation] 
Kate Saylor, MSI, Informationist, University of Michigan, Taubman Health Sciences Library

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