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Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians in St. Petersburg Karen Buset, Research Librarian, Medical Library,UBiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) http://www.netvibes.com/nbamhi#Web_Technologies_for_LibrariesTRANSCRIPT
Web technologies for libraries, St. Petersburg 2009
Karen Buset, Research Librarian, Medical Library,UBiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians in St. Petersburg
Programm
09:00 - 10:00 Introduction on Web 2.0
10:00 - 10:15 break
10:15 - 11:15 Hands-on session 1: Blogs & RSS & Medical RSS
11:15 - 11:30 break
11:30 - 12:45 Hands-on session 2: Personal Startpages & Social Networks & Toolbar12:45 - 13:00 Summary
Introduction to Web 2.0
• What is Web 2.0 & Library 2.0?
It is all about ..People
CommunicationInteraction
SharingConnectionDiscovering
CreatingBut most of all, about
People
Examples of Web 2.0
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Slideshare
• Amazon
• See Top100 Web 2.0 Apps 2008http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html
Everybody connected & in contact with eachother & everything
Online collaboration
Seeing & Sharing
The User chooses & creates his own content and format
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 for Libraries…
• User-centricity• Technology-savy environment• Reaching of the patrons long-tail• Content for more than one device• Component based software, not monolithic ILS• Constant change• Use of web 2.0 apps and services• Open standards
Visibility
Findability
Searchability
Accessibility
Flexibility
Examples of Library 2.0
• Peace Palace Library, The Haguehttp://ppl.nl
• http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/beta/
Web 2.0 & Dependency?
• Always keep in mind to look and develop “applied use” in your organization and library community
• For individuals, groups, communities, networks and overall
• Embed and integrate in workflow• Dependency of software• Open standards
Power to the Users (and Librarians…)
• Web 2.0 technologies offer everybody the power and tools to create and mash-up information to their needs
• Opportunities practically INVITE users to engage
• They are doing it. We should join them!
23 Things• 23 Things is an online learning program for web 2.0
about emerging technologies on the web, that is: New (or newish) web tools
• The original Learning 2.0 site was created to support PLCMC's Learning 2.0 program (Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County)
•The design of the online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet: Blogger, Flickr, YouTube
• Libraries everywhere create their own 23 things
Web 2.0 tools• Blog• RSS• Personal start page • Social Networks• Twitter• Toolbars• Social bookmarking • Photos - Discover Flickr • Video – YouTube• LibraryThing• Instant messaging
Blog
• A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of web content
• Advantage of blogs– No need to know html coding– No need to find server space– Usually free– Allow interactivity and sharing
• Disadvantage of blogs – Too many – hard to select ;-)– Takes time to read
Searching blogs
Technorati http://technorati.com/– Technorati is an Internet search engine
for searching blogs, Indexes over 112 million weblogs
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Blogs for Medical Libraries & Librarians
Overview of Medical Lib Blogs
David Rothman:http://davidrothman.net
Krafty: http://kraftylibrarian.com
Patricia F. Anderson: http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/etechlib
Medical library of Latvia: http://lmbib.blogspot.com/
RSS
• RSS = “Really Simple Syndication”• is an XML file format for delivering content on the web• Subscribe to RSS feed and wait for fresh content to
come to you! • Read info anywhere, always, at all times• Re-Use of Information & new services• Alerts
Find the RSS-feeds?
• Blogs – RSS feeds let readers know when a blog has been updated
• Newspapers and journals– New articles and research are published, and users are alerted
via the feed. • Press releases and announcements
– News from your organization, conferencec /• Current awareness
– News and article updates from databases and journals – PubMed searches
Reading RSS
• Desktop– Applications that requires installation on a computer.
• Web-based– Online aggregators – Create account to access
• Bloglines and Google Reader• Browser- and email client-based browsers
– subscribe to and read RSS feeds right in the browser– Firefox and Internet Explorer 7
• Mobile?
Use for or by Medical Libraries
TicTOCS: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
FeedNavigator: http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator
RSS4medics: http://rss4medics.com
MedWorm: http://medworm.com
Personal start page
• By using a personal start page you can collect and maintain all information that is important for you on your own page
• Examples of content:– Email– news from journals and blogs– alerts– feeds from database searches
• Providers– Netvibes, iGoogle, Pagesflakes
Personal Start pages: Netvibes
• Step by step create your Netvibes account and practicehttp://www.netvibes.com
• Demo:http://www.slideshare.net/wondersteen/introduction-netvibes-presentation
• Tour: http://ginger.netvibes.com/overview.php
• Public page/Universehttp://www.netvibes.com/nbamhi
• Alternative: iGoogle, Pageflakes, Protopage:• http://iGoogle.com
From Personal Start Page to Published “Universe”
• Online Published Selection: “Universe”• Sharing, collaboration, cooperation, education & training• Creaye a Library “Toolbox”:
“Take-Away & Tailor-made”
• www.netvibes.com/cmb• www.netvibes.com/scharr
Social networks
• ” a social utility that connects you with the people around you”
• VKontakte – most used network in Russia
• Facebook– most popular with college and university students
• LinkedIn – business-oriented social networking site, mainly used
for and by professionals• Ning
– Private social network
Toolbars
• Browser Add-ons or plugins can be very useful to make the library, it’s resources and services more– Visible, Accessible,Searchable and Findable
• A personal toolbar:– http://toolbar.google.com/
• www.conduit.com or• http://libx.org/
• Demo Russian Medlibs Toolbar• http://russianmedlibs.ourtoolbar.com
• Make your own Toolbar (with Conduit)o Add Search toevoegeno Add Rss toevoegeno Add Gadgets
Create Library Toolbar
Social bookmarking
• Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content
• Internet users can store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
• Examples:– Del.icio.us : http://delicious.com– LibraryThing : http://www.librarything.com/
Photos and Videos
• Photo sharing on the web – social network for sharing photos– Flickr – use keyword tags
• Upload and share videos on the web– YouTube – social network for sharing videos– upload your own video content – embed clips into your own sites
Instant messaging (IM)
• Instant messaging provides users the ability to communicate quickly in real time.
• One of the advantages of using IM instead of email is that you know if the person you want to talk with is available.
• To use IM you must have an account – Google Talk– MSN
Use Web 2.0!
1. Use your blog as a diary, write about your discoveries and experiences with web 2.0-tools
2. Subscribe to RSS from each others blogs, to share knowledge
3. Use social networks like VKontakte and Ning to keep in touch
• We must be familiar with the new technologies so that we can offer our users a better library
Mindset for Librarian & libraries 1/2
• “Everything will keep changing”• “Anything can happen”• User chooses and creates• It’s no threat, but an additional, supplementary
• If the user can do it himself, the library should have done it before, as a service
Mindset for Librarian & libraries 2/2
• Explore, Play and Teach Yourself
• But also Teach Your Staff and Users:WEB-LITERACY
• Play a Leading Role within your Organization as Experts in Web-Literacy
Workshop
Links
Karen Buset, Research Librarian, Medical Library,UBiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Guus van den Brekel, Medical Information Specialist, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians in St. Petersburg
• Workshop Public Netvibes Page :http://www.netvibes.com/nbamhi#Web_Technologies_for_Libraries
• Workshop Blog: http://web20spb.blogspot.com/
• Toolbar RussianMedlibs : Toolbar RussianMedlibs
• Ning St. Petersburg Workshop : http://lib-spb2009.ning.com/