Taskforce Web 2.0 EAHIL Startup!

The latest issue of the Journal of Eahil contains an article called : Working, Sharing, Communicating, Learning and Teaching with others : the use of Web 2.0 tools for EAHIL Council, Board and Members. The original proposal was written in Januari 2009 by Guus van den Brekel, Ronald van Dieën, Oliver Obst and put to the EAHIL Board in Februari. You can read the edited version for the JEAHIL just below in the first post of this blog. (It is showing a pdf version in a "social publishing tool" called Scribd) This is what we finally are trying to achieve: "The proposal envisioned the following environment where

• appropriate social networking tools for EAHIL members and member organisations are introduced, explained and discussed to understand how useful some of these technologies can be in libraries.
• experiences and reviews of different tools are gathered and published. Aspects to enclose are local differences and trends between EAHIL countries, to learn what the applied use and benefits could be for any medical library, it's staff and its customers/patrons. (Comparable to Library Success Wiki)
• EAHIL members are offered the possibility to explore and play with new technologies, as this is the best way to embrase and actually engage.
• Working, Sharing, Communicating, Learning and Teaching from and with eachother, can be supported."

The Taskforce Blog will be a central point where new developments will be discussed and published. A place to get into contact with the Taskforce members and others. Like a regular web 2.0 tool, the blog is in a permanent beta-state. Content and layout will change over time. Tools to get into touch, email, chat etc will be implemented. We need to know what YOU (as EAHIL member) think about all this. As part of the research we will start short polls to gather information about related topics. We are happy to announce that two new members have joined the Taskforce:

• Katri Larmo: Information Specialist at National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko and
• Kate Kelly: Chief Librarian at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The other members are:
• Oliver Obst: Library Director Zweigbibliothek Medizin, Universitaets- & Landesbibliothek, Muenste, Germany
• Lotta Haglund: Head of Information and Public Relations at

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• Benoit Thirion: Medical Librarian at Rouen University Hospital
• Guus van den Brekel: Medical Information Specialist at University Medical Center Groningen, Central Medical Library

Education and Teaching in Second Life

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I wrote a Dutch article about Education and Teaching in SL about 6 weeks ago, focussing on the Kamimo project, http://kamimo-islands.blogspot.com/ It was published in a new journal on digital libraries, http:/digbib.nl For all of you who strangly enough do NOT read Dutch that easily... Here is the automated translation of it via Google Translate at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15729296/Education-and-Teaching-in-Second-Life I have no time to do a proper translation sorry. (Alliance Library Systems and Infoisland Archipelago is mentioned of course!) I also wrote a book review, also in Dutch on the excellent book

Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life

by Judith Molka-Danielsen and Mats Deutschmann (eds.) http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/en/node/1195 People from Kamimo continued working in a new project together with University of Manchester. The AVALON Project EU funded AVALON is a 2-year project to explore the potential of langugage learning in Second Life. The AVALON Project (Ignite Presentation)

Medical Libraries using LibGuides : various approaches

springshare: @digicmb - here are lists of medical libraries (http://bit.ly/1NFyj) and hospitals (http://bit.ly/3g4km) using LibGuides
It started with a Tweet on wanting to know who was using LibGuides in Medical Libraries. At the University of Groningen the libraries are working on making SUBJECT GUIDES with LibGuides and I thought the fastest way to find out what and where was a quick Tweet.
Of course I should have searched for myself IN LibGuides to find out, but this way was more easier, and I believe using the contacts in Twitter makes it possible to get móre than just the links and recieve also experiences and comments. Other also now know I am working on that in Groningen...

The use is very different. Some actually look a bit like Netvibes Universes, but without the sharing part and with the option of moving stuff around of course for the users. Here is one from Becker Medical Library on Medical Podcasts

A really nice well-filled example of a Subject Guide (but they call if Research Tools ...) for Medical Students can be found at http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/medstudents

The Dental Medicine Subject Guide from the Harvard Medical School is great, and shows a nice mix of library related services for Dentistry, the use of resources, news, books, specialities, although you might think that users could get lost in the great amount of data.

The very large amount of subject guides were created by by the staff of the Norris Medical Library "Subject Guides: Research assistance and useful resources" (49 guides!)

There is use of the LibGuides as support for education, classes, seperate studies of focus groups: Here is one from Himmelfarm Health Sciences Library on History of Epidemics.

“Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on How to Locate Quality Health Information

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Must really get back into writing posts... I blame Twitter.. I think it's marvellous but it takes away the edge a little bit to write on the blogs about it again.. This you must read! Virtual Ability has the absolute best and most beautiful Orientation Isand to learn getting around in Second Life.

Alliance Library System is pleased to make the final report for the project “Share the Health” available on the web at http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/pdf09/Sharethehealthfinalreportmay2009.pdf.

This project was funded with a contract from the National Library of Medicine Greater Midwest Region.

“We are very pleased that this project accomplished so much in terms of helping people with disabilities and chronic health conditions learn where to find credible health information and also how to navigate the virtual world of Second Life,” stated Kitty Pope, ALS Executive Director. “Much of this population is homebound and virtual worlds give them the opportunity to experience things they would not otherwise get to do.”

Virtual Ability, the new orientation center for people with these conditions in Second Life, was partially funded through this project. Virtual Ability was a recent co-winner of the prestigious Linden Prize with Studio Wikitecture. There were over 230 entries and this is the first vendor award of its type in virtual worlds.

“The many library services available in Second Life increase it’s utility for people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. The resources on HealthInfo Island are particularly pertinent,” stated Alice Krueger, president of Virtual Ability, Inc. “ We were pleased to partner with ALS in developing the intake and new resident orientation facilities on Virtual Ability Island, adjoining HealthInfo Island on the east.”

They also have created a Netvibes Universe Public Page : Share The Health VAI ALS

Here is an impression!

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