On iReport, Lindsay posts under the name "infoaddict, " which seems fitting for a former librarian and information technology expert with masters' degrees in literature and library information sciences.

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Ryan asked one of her colleagues, a research specialist at the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston, to search the medical literature.

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Founded in 1898, the firm, with its famous Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and other high-quality library indexes, long occupied a comfortable niche: collecting, analyzing and cross-referencing published works.

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Library research by this writer revealed 2 bodies of literature in one!

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As the College was forced to disband under the reign of Napoleon, its literature collections were taken on by the Saint-Omer Library.

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On the other are librarians, library users and authors, who believe local libraries are vital centres of literature and learning.

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Here different regulators were provided with different trial results, and astonishingly, even today, information is still being withheld from the Cochrane Library , the international non-profit academic collaboration conducting systematic reviews of the literature on all major treatment questions in medicine.

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At the request of the provost he taught a class in ancient Greek literature in translation, sympathizing with students who found Thucydides impenetrable: The Modern Library edition has one map of the entire Hellenic world, with 180 labels on it.

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The book surveys shelf after shelf of the economics literature but in such skilful hands it does not feel like a dutiful trip to the library.

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