Just Did & To Do List : exciting times of a medical librarian

Just DID ... It has been very busy last weeks, socially as well as work related.

I visited Prague for almost a week for the Inforum 2007 conference.
After that I met the Rolling Stones in Goffert Park in Nijmegen (together with 50.0000 others).
The next week I flew to Zagreb, Croatia to have a presentation at the Medical Information Conference Croatia 2007 (MICC).
I jumped directly in to my car when back from the airport to drive to a weekend camping event together with our neighbours at the Papaver in Sellingen. An absolute must-do tip! We (The neighbours) organise a "special BBQ" every year, the Neighbourhood BBQ with a high Jamie Oliver level, fresh herbs, a lot of quality fish (from Kees at the Groningen Market), bio-meat, wonderful salades, dressings and side-dishes.
And to complete this string of events I was invited to talk about my hobby ;-), Second Life and Libraries at the first session of the "Meet the Expert" series from the NVB WB/HB on June 19th in Utrecht. The slides are available at my SLIDESHARE.NET page.

Still to Do List:

Post about The National Medical Library of the Czech Republik, their Medvik system and the creation of their Library Toolbar.
The Ikaros company and intensions to start a presence in Second Life for New Media Education
NeedleSearch, an absolutely marvelous Firefox add-on that offers an incredible tool for users to make their own search engine collection. It also helps me to enable even more licenced databases for our Library Toolbars.
Read presentations and comments on "Digitale Bibliotheek"
Post about Zagreb, People from Ovid and medical libraries in Eastern European Countries

Comments

Anonymous said…

Indrukwekkend lijstje, Guus. Om te benijden. :-)
Op mijn Todo lijstje: nog iets bloggen op jouw toolbar blog. Komend weekend: beloofd!
Groetjes uit Leuven! Jens

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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