Proquest Share This tool

Just testing out Proquest's ability to save an article directly into a Blogger post.

Effects Of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999-2005

LIfe cycle of household goods assignment -- more sources

In addition to householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov, you might try goodguide.com and " The Story of Stuff" (storyofstuff.com)

Metaphor for Subject-Specific Databases

This was an aside in an ACRLog post, but I loved it!! As a metaphor for using Subject-specific databases instead of just Google:

"when I need shoes I go to a shoe store; I don’t go up and down the mall asking for shoes in every store"

Courtesy of Maura Smale http://acrlog.org/2011/03/02/in-praise-of-ideas/