from traditional to techno-based medical library services : whither nigerian medical librarians...

FROM TRADITIONAL TO TECHNO-BASED MEDICAL LIBRARY SERVICES : WHITHER NIGERIAN MEDICAL LIBRARIANS

Keynote presented during the Medical Library Association of Nigeria(MLA-NG)2011

Conference/ AGMBy

Dr Chinwe Veronica AnunobiDigital Librarian, Festus Aghagbo Nwako Library

Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka14-17 November , 2011

@King David Hotel , Awka ,Anambra State

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REVOLUTION IN MEDICAL LIBRARY SERVICES : CHANGING CONCEPTS



MEDICAL LIBRARIANS CONCERN !!!Type of services rendered by Nigerian

Medical Librarians.Are we really among the players or onlookers

or worse still indifferent to the above unfoldings ?.

It is necessary to note the various services , what medical librarian should know and do as well as how to do them .

Thus be among the first 11 in the team of the players

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OUTLINETraditional Medical servicesTechno-Based Medical ServicesWhat Medical Librarians Should know and

DoHow to do



TRADITIONAL SERVICESStarted with the oldest Nigerian Medical Library

: Yaba Central Medical Library(Est.1945) then University of Ibadan Medical Library (Est. 1948).

Number as many as there are teaching hospitals and medicine related institutions

Services include: Circulation Reference

Bibliographic listings Referral Interlending. Serials Documents/Archives

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TRADITIONAL SERVICES CONT…


TRADITIONAL SERVICES CONT…Services include:

Circulation Reference

Bibliography listings Referral Interlending. Serials Documents/Archives


TECHNO-BASED SERVICES



AUTOMATED SERVICES

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DIGITAL SERVICES Started with Indigenous Resources : theses & dissertations, other

locally generated resources; In Nigeria initiated by : AAU using Procite ( Bibliographic

only).Then Fulltext using Endnote; Then deployment of digitization software ( Greenstone, Dspace,

Fedora, etc) & often and not always Static websites; Characteristics :

Electronic full text;Ownership & Access emphasized;Fully technology based;High level of ICT skills and limited Traditional library skills;Combination of static and dynamic website;


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LIBRARY 2.0

Out come of web 2.0: user generated content , highly interactive ;

Application of interactive, collaborative & multi media web-based technologies to web-based library services and collection ;


Medical Library Services

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LIBRARY 2.0 CONT… Characteristics

Access to user generated content ( originating from user or through aggregation of already existing contents);

User centered; Multimedia experience; Socially rich & communally innovative ; Optimally dynamic; Operations & services web-based ; Operations & services responsibility : Librarian & user; High level of commitment : real time or a synchronic; Breaks the wall between Medical Librarian & user; Uses tools outside the walls of the Medical library; Profile/ Image Booster;

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LIBRARY 2.0 CONT…



WHAT MEDICAL LIBRARIANS SHOULD KNOW & DO

KNOW Library operations and services evolving by the day! Users focus & needs have changed!

CHANGE FROM Traditional Medical services to Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)/

Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC); Visiting the library physically to Virtual access ; Delayed Access to Real Time access ; Consumer of information resources / services to Contributing for

effective services ; Reading a whole book to Reading relevant parts; Using information in one format to Use of multimedia ; Being a detached Medical Librarian to practicing Embedded Medical

Librarianship;



WHAT MEDICAL LIBRARIANS SHOULD KNOW & DO Cont…

DOReformation and Complete overhauling of

Medical Library services ( Facility & Personnel)Re-skilling to ensure effective reformation

Computer literacy skills; Digitization Skills; Web 2.0 Skills; REFORMATION TOOLS: TECHNOLOGY Collaborating Tools; Contributing to the Web Tools; Aggregating & Marking Tools;



REFORMATION TOOLS: TECHNOLOGY



HOW

Find out what these tools can offer ;Find their uses in other Medical Libraries ;Adapt such use to your library ;



GENERAL USES

• For Collections Development;• Public Services: Reference, Current Awareness Services , Selective or Strategic Dissemination of Information;• Marketing of Information services ;• Event Publicity;• Knowledge Sharing ;• Information Literacy program and other library education /Instruction programs ;• News and Newsletters;• Real time Reference services & Alert;• Create database of resources in the Medical library ;• Follow and Assist medical personnel ( Embedded& Evidence Based

Librarianship);• Professional development(Communicate research findings,

Collaborative research, elearning;



COLLABORATING TOOLSSOCIAL NETWORKING :

The practice of individuals connecting and communicating around a common interest using online tools and social networking sites.

People can share photos, videos, audio files, links to websites of interest; Facebook, Hi5Networks, Myspace and LinkedIn

USES Marketing Library services; Broadcasting Events; Sharing News ; Posting informative photos, videos ; Tagging ; Find Jobs, Employees and Consultants ; Creating community ( Medical Library Community ) to share

with ; Provide new ways for people to connect and use resources.



COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…Facebook use for Medical Library services



COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…Wiki : a website which can be edited online in your browser

: Create pages , assign use right like who can contribute, edit , or simply read. E.g Wikiepedia

Users contribute , interact with content and remain focusUSES

Developing content ( Newsletter , Database of FAQs for Medical Services;

Collaborate in Research;Create faculty publication Database; Planning Medical Library Events;Collaborative reference resource collection ;



COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…Wiki



CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS Tools that make it easy to publish and setup a website with text, video, photo

and advanced navigation features. Become producers of information on the Internet without programming

knowledge Content becomes more accessible and content sources become more diverse Includes : Blogging (Wordpress, Blogger) & Microblogging ( Twitter);Online

Video ( (YouTube)& Image (Flickr )sharing; Podcasting & Online Radio Tools:

Characteristics No web development skills needed to add content Effective medium to communicate within and outside Medical Library Quick and simple to use. Encourage frequent content addition Through comments it allows knowledge exchange



CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…USES

Develop dynamic Medical Library website and link users to it Categories users and the content they receive Information Literacy and other Library Instructions

Real-time Messaging Provision of Alert to New publication Providing Repository of EBM Research support to medical personnel Provision of How to Do Video Staff development Take the entire library services to the user computer



CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…Blog



NAU DIGITAL LIBRARY BLOGYou can follow us on Yahoo mail

[email protected] or our blog at http://naudigitallibrary.wordpress.com.



CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…Microbloging(Twitter)



CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…YOUTUBE


CONTRIBUTING TO THE INTERNET TOOLS CONT… FLICKR



AGGREGATION , TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS

Method for Internet Users to organise , store , manage & search for bookmarks of resources

AGGREGATION TOOLSAggregation tools enable Medical Librarian receive and

review information from many sources without visiting individual website individually on a regular basis .Rather Subscribe to content feeds.

Identified as RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary or RDF [Resource Description Framework] Site Summary)

Feed Reader aids aggregation & reading GoogleReader, Bloglines, Netvibes



AGGREGATION & TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT… FEED READER

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AGGREGATION ,TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT…

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TAGGING TOOLS Use of web-based sites to store important /

relevant sites tag and share with othersYou benefit from others stored sites and they

benefit from yours Gave rise to Folksonomy : collaborative

tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging



AGGREGATION , TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT…

USES Marketing of Library websites &information contained there Distribution of subscribed sites or other web content Selection & acquisition of web content Aggregation of topics & research output for multiple sourcing Create medical literature awareness system E referencing News Evidence based Librarianship(EBL) Sharing of resources Bringing user and Medical Librarian together Strategic Dissemination of information Embedded Librarianship



AGGREGATION & TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT… DELICIOUS



CONCLUSIONNo Medical Library that worth its name can

afford to avoid Library 2.0.!Read about it! Use it !You will be happy and be at the fore front of

Evidence Based Librarianship !Sound decision is based on evidence .!Prove your worth by using Library 2.0!



Thank You for Your Time &God Bless!!!!

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