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The EAHIL2009 Workshop in Dublin had as motto : "Working with others: explore, engage, extend" While having drinks with Louise Farragher after the closing of the successful Workshop in Dublin, we talked about using the recordings that were taken of the Opening Session . At that time I still had the idea that there were also video-recordings, but it turned out to be "just" audio. Wouldn't it be great to be abled to listen to the actual voice and speech while seeing the slides and/or pictures of presentations afterwards? For all kinds of reasons, we did not get to really making it work. But now I finally got to it. With the use of Audacity , a  free, open source software for recording and editing sounds, Powerpoint and Slideshare's Slidecast functionality, I created the first 3 Parts of the EAHIL 2009 Opening session and published them via the EAHIL2009 Slideshare account . The pictures used were taken from the Flickr EAHIL2009 Group Pool  . If anyone o...

This is a call on all Health and Medical Information specialist worldwide to submit one or more of your blog posts to the nexts months  MedLibs Blog Carnaval Round  2.8 which will be up at this blog ! The theme of this Round will be: Emerging Technology in Medical and Health Information . You can already start submitting to the next edition (just sign in and enter the URL of your post) at the submission form  here . Y ou can submit any post as long as it is of good quality and pertains to medical and/or health information. I had the pleasure and honour to give a Continuing Education Course (CEC) at EAHIl 2010 on this theme, and am trying to keep the public course up to date at : http://www.netvibes.com/emergingtechnologiesinlibraries The course touched emerging technology issues relevant for academic and medical libraries & librarians. You will find already a lot of information on certain topics, and a few books I can recommend, but it would be great to hea...

Gert Meijdam, founder and owner of the business information company STIPP , Deventer, became the  Information Professional of the Year in 2010 , judged by  a four-member professional jury.   The prize this year has been issued for the fifth time, is set by Prissma , the largest division of NVB (Dutch society for professionals in the Library, Information and Knowledge Sector). Meijdam is founder and director-owner of the Deventer-based information company  STIPP , he has managed to build an established name in the information world of profit (publishers, businesses) and nonprofit (public institutions, libraries, etc.). (rea d more about Gert here in a Google -translate version of the official text) The second prize was won by me! The "EBSCO Publieksprijs" as part of the election of the Information Professional of the Year 2010 This year for the second time the Audience award, a check for 1,000 euros sponsored by EBSCO Information Services . Internet peers ...

For me it wasn't  difficult to decide the work on a Toolbar for Webicina , which I believe to be -at this point- the best & most up to date Medical web 2.0 collection of resources, blogs and tools around for Medical Professionals and Empowered Patients.   And together with PeRSSonalized Medicine - a free, easy-to-use aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place. -  it perfectly merges into a very usefull tool to keep up for many people. Berci now added the link to the Webicina Toolbar on both pages at the right side. Webicina's content: For Medical Professionals: 19 Specialities Sexual Health and Web 2.0   Anesthesiology and Web 2.0 Cardiology and Web 2.0 Dentistry and Web 2.0 Dermatology and Web 2.0 Emergency Medicine and Web 2.0 Genetics and Web 2.0 Neurology and Web 2.0 ...

How open are Medical Library Conferences? How easy is it to get the material discussed or presented there? And is it supposed to be available all the time and for free? In this age of Open Acess, web 2.0 and the expectancy of the "users" -being us librarians, spoiled with Google:-) one would assume that much(if not all) is freely available via Conferences websites and/or social media. Why then do I find it hard to find the extra info about those events, including papers and slides and possibly even webcasts? Are we still not into the share-mode and overprotective to one's own achievements, or is it a genetic defect just being too modest as a librarian, satisfied with a quiet role in the background? Please anyone, fill my gaps of knowledge in this. Is it ignorance by me, or is there a real issue? Hiding content behind a registration I cán understand, but it is missing the actual elementary necessity of trying to keep all medical librarians up to date in their struggle...

In a recent email it was explained that NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System now offers RSS-feeds for search results, or even a widget you can embed in your website or blog I think it is interesting to keep up what is entered into NARCIS by or about the UMCG. So the search "universitair medisch centrum groningen" OR UMCG ", gave me 101 results divided in 6 tab-results Every set of results can be saved as RSS feed, embedded or added to your Favourites, EXCEPT the "ALL Sources". I tried to merge these 5 rss-feeds into one via Pipes.Yahoo.com  and it seemed to work. You can see the result on the UMCG Web Presence Scan Public Page ; Publications Tab