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Conduit Open Just a few days ago I took a deeper look at Conduit Open . Not because I have any shares in the company, but because we as library are using the tool for years now, as well as Netvibes. And to my surprise, it now looks they both started working very closely together! Conduit Open is a beta version of a marketplace for toolbar components.It was launched a couple of months ago. For Toolbar Creators Basically they implemented a way for toolbar owners [you cant call them developers as creating a toolbar is made dead simple] to SHARE not the toolbar itself, but the seperate toolbar elements, menu*s and buttons. (Hélas not the searchbox with all the library custom searches.) Admins find a share-option in the edit-mode of the toolbar  at each element. This way the component gets published in the Marketplace, available for all. Admins can also choose to search for new components in the Marketplace when logged-in. This Search service offers móre information about the co...

Re-post from : LibraryToolbar.blogspot.com. Here are just a few ways you can ADJUST your Library Toolbar once you have chosen to use it. I am making this overview because the people creating this free toolbar software ( Conduit ) keep improvingand adding new ways of adjusting the toolbars to give users more possibilities. The examples given are from the NLM Toolbar. During installation you can choose to add 3 personalised buttons to your toolbar (See the picture): Email-notifier (to get notified of new email on multiple accounts) Weather button (To see current and predicted Weather in specific location) Radio-button (To select your own preferences in web-radio ánd to listen to added podcasts via RSS). The NLM Radioplayer contains the podcasts of the NLM Director Comments on MedlinePlus & the NIH Podcast. (These buttons can at all times be de-activated or actived later on)  You can choose to set the customized websearch from the toolbar as your...

 Today the url of the preview for new Pubmed design came out: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Enough changes to be very interesting, and to be added as search to the Pubmed Toolbar: http://pubmed.ourtoolbar.com (re-post from NLM Toolbars ) Related articles by Zemanta Search Engines, Genomics, Medical Literature: Tag Clouds come to PubMed via LigerCat (creakysites.wordpress.com) Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed (efficientmd.blogspot.com)

emtacl10 — emerging technologies in academic libraries International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2010 26–28 April 2010, Trondheim, Norway http://www.emtacl.com/ Call for papers The Programm committee would like to remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is Thursday 15 October. We are also happy to announce Lorcan Dempsey as opening keynote speaker at the conference. Lorcan is Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), and needs no further introduction. Emerging technologies and evolving user behaviour change the rules of the game for academic libraries. Emerging technologies include new ways of using existing technologies and totally new, disruptive technologies. Abstract submission instructions: Please use the submission form at https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=emtacl10 Emtacl NTNU Library (emtacl) on Twitter Emtacl Facebook YouTube - emtacl's Channel

After a long period of relative silence on this blog I am trying to clear up at least the loose-ends ... and update the stuff out there, when time & energy permits. I had not posted my talk from Liber2009, almost 2 months ago. Have a look at the video’s of the conference on line: http://www.canalc2.tv/evenements.asp?idEvenement=481 More LIBER2009 presentations available from: http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/presentations Do Libraries Meet Research 2.0 : collaborative tools and relevance for Research Libraries View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel .

Here is some extra info on the Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians held in St. Petersburg at the Library of Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies . Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 The courses were made possible thanks to grants from SMH and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services through the Cooperation Programme on Health and Related Social Issues in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. BMJ and Ovid have also sponsored this year's project. Presentations in pdf : Getting Clinical Evidence into Practice . BMJ Clinical Evidence and BMJ Best Practice. Steve Thorpe, BMJ The Role of Patient Information in Evidence Based Medicine . Eva Alopaeus SMIL Patient Information Database . Tiina Heino Free Medical Resources on the Internet (in Russian) . List Velta Poznaka Google Scholar – the good, the bad, and the ugly . Elisabeth Akre PubMed news. Astrid Müller The Trans...