On last monday the new digital library of the Martini Hospital, one of the Top Clinical Hospitals in the Netherlands was opened with a small symposium.
The new librarian Joan Woudsma gave a short introduction into the new library and it's services.
After that Rob Coers showed how you could get more out of your digital library with RSS. Based on the reactions of the staff present, i could say that Joan should prepare some this RSS-feeds for his users. Maybe we (the library) should plan to give some workshops on RSS in Martini and UMCG?
I was invited to talk about "How to make the library visible in the user environment" (in Dutch, ppt) and also did a demo of the QuickSearch Library Toolbar as one of the possibilities.
The session was closed with a lively discussion tackling several issues about digital libraries.
I think Joan has made a great start, the turn-up was great and everybody heard a lot of things that were useful. Keep track of his blog, a lot will happen.
Here a short overview of all new updates around the Journal apps we are supporting. Personally I am most excited about the anouncements of " docwise " making big steps to keep up with BrowZine & Read (Integration -"Open in"- with Dropbox, Evernote and more, save and email full text articles), but making a hug jump with unique features, like shareable Folders with docwise users ánd a RSS reader feature (boldly called Google Reader replacement!). Bring it on! BrowZine : just published the Android Version of their App to which the CMB UMCG now has a subscription. To be downloaded from Google Play Store or Amazon App Store the following publishers have been added Project MUSE Cambridge University Press American Marketing Association Academy of Management Royal Society of Chemistry Institute of Physics American Physical Society Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) American Geophysical Union International Society for Optics a...
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