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From: Smith Catherine <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 December 2002 11:11
Subject: RE: Game of Fives
Being based in Scotland I know very little about the London based Libraries
(sad but true). However here goes:
RCN - Deep Space 9 - a breakaway from the traditional establishment, well
liked with a strong following.
BMA - The Original Series - Well known, well liked, occasionally bizarre.
Has a strong sense of fun.
Kings Fund - Voyager - Operating in the Delta Quadrant by virtue of being a
Charitable Foundation - the distance in perspective between this and the
other 4 libraries is immense.
Royal College of Surgeons - The Next Generation - One for the
traditionalists, solid, dependable, with a devout following and a strong
sense of ethics.
RSM Library - Enterprise - the first and paradoxically the last - at least
in this list!
(Ok - so I got a little desperate towards the end!)
Cathy Smith
Fife NHS Board
(and for some reason lis-medical won't let me post)
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> Subject: Competition: Game of Fives
>
> Want to exercise those sapping intellectual powers as the year winds down?
> Want to win a £ 20 book token? Want some fun? Then read on:
>
> Some years ago the BMJ ran a spoof competition which got its readers to
> compare the five big medical journals to "sets of five" of other things.So
> readers compared them to Big game animals, Ships, World Cup football
> teams, Cars, the Spice Girls and Breakfast Cereals. See the following for
> the idea: BMJ 1998;317:1733 ( 19 December )
>
> http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7174/1733?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&R
> ESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=scary+posh+baby+sporty&searchid=1040372558214_225&st
> ored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=1,2,3,4,10
>
> Well as outgoing Chair of The Helicon Research and Horizon Scanning Task
> Finish Group I would like to conduct my own experiment:
> 1. Are librarians more imaginative than doctors?
> 2. Do staff at the "big five" London Libraries have as similarly a keen
> sense of humour as those at the big five medical journals?
>
> To participate, compose your own list for the following five London
> libraries together with brief reasons for your choice and post it to
> lis-medical:
> BMA Library
> RCN Library
> King's Fund Library
> RSM Library
> Royal College of Surgeons Library
>
> The compiler of the list that makes me laugh most heartily will get the
> book token. As it will come out of my own pocket my decision is final!
>
> As I shall be mortified if I cause *excessive* embarassment to any of my
> respected and valued colleagues at these libraries could I plead that you
> try to be equally imaginative, satirical and witty for each of the
> institutions/libraries. Entries from the "big five" particularly welcome!
>
> Andrew
> << File: att.dat >>
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