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Search for :Consumer Health & Patient Education Another perfect example how the searching of multiple web-based resources on specific subjects can be combined and customized with for instance Google Custom Search. In relation to the project Consumer Health Information this special CSE on Consumer Health & Patient Education can be very usefull. I am going to make it available at the InfoIsland.org blog for the Second Life Libraries, but more interesting will it be to see if we can add it to the main search tool we have in Second Life now, the Library Search HUD (HeadsUp Display) that enables patrons to search in SL, but also in WorldCat and several other resources! Predictions are that 3d virtual environments, platforms like Second Life, could become the Internet browsers of the future! Are these developments on the long run going to be a welcome threat for the Internet Explorer domination? I guess Bill Gates did not see that coming! Not from that corner. ...

After reading a post mentioned by Lorcan Dempsey about all kind of used tools for making bibliographies and managing citations, have to put this issue high on my list of "do something to improve this for our users" again. We currently use Reference Manager as standard, but with every new version we experience the trouble of network distribution and adjustment to the used word processing tools. We hear more and more possitive sounds about Endnote with the new web-based version. When will the web-based version of Reference Manager be available? A selection: Sente Zotero http://Ottobib.com http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm http://www.sourceaid.com/ http://www.hotreference.com/ In PHP: http://www.aigaion.nl/index.php?page=features http://www.technotecture.com/?node=projects/simplybibtex/m... In Java: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jorge http://jabref.sf.net Linux http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/ refbase http://www.evernote.com/en/downloads w...

I have been looking at ways to learn my kids to type better on the computer! Now they can do that while playing Word-Shoot! You can keep yourself alive by typing the words next to your opponents as quick as you can! Jenny Levine pointed to this & http://cognitivelabs.com/word_shoot.htm And please do have a look at the INFORMATION LITERACY GAME from the University of North Carolina Greensboro Libraries .

Here is an interesting post from ACRL Blog about Blackboard partnering Google to work at integration of Google Scholar into Blackboard. I think libraries should be at least involved at running this kind of courseware, but very often they are not even near ... Where’s The Library In This Partnership? Blackboards press release Categories: Google_scholar , blackboard , libraries Google

I put up the Biomedical Library BlogSearch in my sidebar as well, just as Dymphie & Oliver , but I used the codes that "force" it through one of my Toolbars. That way the results get accompanied with all the other selections of search options that I can include in that Toolbar, IN A SPECIAL BROWSER "frame" that always stays on the top screen. I am thinking of all different kinds of blogsearch engines to continue the search very easily. For now I included Blog Search Engines ASK, TECHNORATI, GOOGLE, FEEDSTER AND BLOGDIGGER. You can start the search in any of those right away by just clicking on one of them, your word has been placed into the searchbox already. What (free) search engines would we advice/use in that Toolbar? Any suggestions?

Open the Library. Push The Library Everywhere Engage with actual and potential user environments Disaggregate Library systems (-and bring them together) Shared Innovation Above lines are from Paul Millers presentation at the Internet Librarian International 2006. They say it all. This is what Libraries should focus on. I had the pleasure and luck to hear this already at the TICER Courses this year in Tilburg. Again this states the high quality of the programming of Ticer, because key speakers of the ILI2006 were also Jenny Levine & Michael Stephens, also at Ticer2006 I read somebody ask about his nice slide transitions. Well, I know how! His pdf is available, because that is the easy way to convert this MAC presentation to. Don't know the exact name of the software, sorry.

Well, David Rothman did post earlier on it, but i had not seen it before. A ever changing display of items, articles, tables of contents, medical news etc. If it has or can get an RSS-feed it can be displayed for everybody. You can personalise it for yourself, for free, you can search it, view the sfx-menu that the University of Helsinki offers the users, download to RefWorks. http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/ Have a look, i would want something like this. And actually the University Library of Groningen is developing a simular device around their metalib configuration, the X server, and LiveTrix. http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/ And also nice is RSS4Medics Medworm

With options like Rollyo and Google Custom Search you can do more! And combined with the Toolbar functions you can make your search appear (amost ) anywhere! SEARCH ALL MEDICAL LIBRARY BLOGS! So first somebody ( Dymphie & David Rothman ) made a combined search engine through Google Custom Search. It is easy to include that in to your own blog, like Oliver Obst did... but to include it in a blogger post like I tried to to show it here did not work right away. Blogger does not accept the tags for javascripts. I did a work around to include the CSE of the MedLibBloggers into a Library Toolbar and as you know seperate searchresources of the Conduit Toolbar can be made visible in any webpage, because they break down in a simple html form script.

After two days of rain, heavy winds, snow & hail I had the best weather ever on Saturday! And lucky me, today Sólveig and her husband took me on a trip to the National Park Þingvellir where a new civilisation started. Þingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing - an open-air assembly, which represented the whole of Iceland - was established in 930 and continued to meet until 1798. It is also a World Heritage place! See some pictures of the park, the University Library, the Medical Library & Landspitali Hospital, the National Hospital of Iceland http://www.flickr.com/photos/slml/sets/72157594370794206/show/

Greetings from stormy Iceland! Read all about what I have done together with (almost all of) the medical librarians of Iceland at the European Medical Librarian Blog . More stories to come and pictures. Hopefully i can get to the Geyser and waterfalls tomorrow ...

Yesterday we had a very interesting mini-symposium on Open Access! The Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) organized it together with the University Library of Groningen for the medical staff of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The three presenters did a very good job and had different views and perspectives on the subject. The presentations of the speakers will be published on the blog of the symposium , as well as the audio files in mp3 format. Drs. J. (Jan)J.M. Velterop (pdf) prof. dr. F.M. (Floor) Haaijer-Ruskamp (ppt) dr. H.H. (Henk) Ellermann (ppt) The following discussion was lively (more on this later, we will have a summary about this). Participants were: prof. dr. R. (Robbert) Sanderman Chair and prof. dr. S. (Sibrand) Poppema (Dean) dr. A.V. (Adelita) Ranchor prof. dr. D. (Dick) Hoekstra dr. I.C. (Isabelle) van Gelder Categories: OPen , Access, , Springer, , UMCG, , Research, , Publications

We are changing from Embase via Silverplatter win/Webspirs to Embase.com and are helping our patrons to deal with it. Here are some questions we asked the Embase.com helpdesk and their answers: how many characters can be included in the advanced search box? We have noticed that with a large batch-set of authors we get illogical results numbers (less where we expect more) Helpdesk - The maximum numbers of characters is 1800 . If your query exceeds this number you will receive a result with 3 dots, which means the system could not handle the query. To resolve this I advise you to divide a query exceeding the allowed 1800 characters in to 2 or more queries. ( as much as needed ). After you have done both queries, embase.com offers the option to combine both results, to do so follow the following steps: We would expect to get a error-message if we would reach a maximum input Helpdesk: This is currently not the case and this is an excellent suggestion ! I have passed this on to our de...

The Alliance Library System (ALS) is pleased to announce that the National Library of Medicine/Greater Midwest Region has awarded ALS a $40,000 grant to provide consumer health information services in the virtual world of Second Life. ALS is working on the project in partnership with: University of Illinois Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands, and TAP Information Services. “Providing Consumer Health Outreach and Library Programs to Virtual World Residents in Second Life” will allow the Alliance Second Life Library to provide training programs, outreach to virtual medical communities, important consumer health resources, and one-on-one support to Second Life residents. Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com) is a booming virtual world with over 1 million residents. “We are thrilled to receive this grant as it builds on efforts we have already started in Second Life to provide library services,” ...