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Internet Librarian International Slides?

What Phil has found View more presentations from Phil Bradley . I found 6 presentations from ILI2010 on Slideshare tagged with "ïli2010" Mashing libraries to build communities from  ostephens , posted 3 weeks ago in Technology. 217 views Presentation given at Internet Librarian International 2010 (ILI2010) What Phil has found from  Philbradley , posted 4 weeks ago in Education, Technology. 1855 views My presentation given at the Internet Librarian International 2010 conference on October 15th. A. Rose by any other name from  amandahill , posted 4 weeks ago in Technology, Education. 98 views The Names Project, as presented at Internet Librarian International, 15 October 2010. Social Search from  KarenBlakeman , posted 4 weeks ago in Technology, Business & Mgmt. 492 views Presentation given at Internet Librarian International, 15th October 2010, London Do libraries have a future? from  bethanar , posted 1 month ago. 353 views Pode ...

Discussing New Media & Science 2.0 in the UMCG

Nieuwe Media & Science 2.0 Info Bijeenkomst UMCG View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel . It was time to put a course together about tools for scientists that support and facilitate them. With years of experience and DIY in working on browser tools, like toolbars, widgets, gadgets, add-ons, plug-in's, digesting the range of bio-medical search engines, resources and websites, exploring social networks for scientists, doctors and students, looking into personalisation, start pages, rss-feeds, trying to keep up-to-date with web technology, always looking for applied use for users, learning by doing, by trial and error, practicing what I preach, and most of all ... sharing. So, to find a way to get this all out to those who might need it, and don't know how to tackle stuff ..., I planned a new course " Science 2.0: trends, tools and tips Science is changing. Science 2.0 influences the personal & workflow of researchers, clinicians...

Push Library search into Google : licenced database results in major search engines for "discovery"

Is Google the elephant in the room ? It is not hard to stimulate people to use Google search. In medical education and practice we encounter a very large group using Google for many tasks: quick reference, known item search, citation checking, discovery, translation, spelling checks, address look-up, images, maps etc Their motivation: "We believe everything we need right now is in there and its easy to find it". Google Scholar even tops this up with the focus on "scientific" literature and a sort of citation scores. It is hard to get people to use various licenced databases acquired by the library. In Google Scholar we push our linkresolver (sfx) . This will appears automatically on any computer with our ip-ranges. For off-campus users can set our library link resolver manually via Preferences . But for search resuls in major search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo there are no serious options to do this ... as far as I know of now. But this maybe a l...