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For 2008 my good intensions will focus on the subjects mentioned below.. Although many of the efforts will go into making and developing new tools for users from the library, the most important issue in 2008 will be, without a doubt, "being in contact": maintaining, improving and expanding a conversation between our users and library staff. Expanding our range of Netvibes Widgets to other platforms. Offer Library Widgets as (re)search tools in various social networks, but also creating them inside our organisations intranet. Interoperability will be main target for our widgets. I have to find out how to how to build SharePoint widgets as well... Building the Netvibes Universe into a Library Toolbox for sharing, instructions and tailor-made search and alerts options. Integrating new communication tools in existing library services. We can not ignore cell phone technology and the massive growth of use amongst our users. Short text messages, and chat, but also Mobile...

Global Ranking of Top English-language Healthcare Blogs Current as of December 24, 2007 http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/ It's the time of (making) lists ... , and while I am working on my own list of good intentions for 2008- here is a nice list to read! It was a surprise to see my own blog on the honorable mention list.

Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries Have a look at the wiki of the ACRL print publication Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries (2007) . This wiki presents updates on the case studies described in the book. RSS feed for updates to this wiki Atom feed for updates to this wiki Chapter 1 : Discovering Places to Serve Patrons in the Long Tail Chapter 2 : Chat, Commons, and Collaboration: Inadvertently Library 2.0 in Western Australia Chapter 3 : Yale: Taking the Library to Users in the Online University Environment Chapter 4 : Delivering Targeted Library Resources into a Blackboard Framework Chapter 5 : Adapting an Open Source, Scholarly Web 2.0 System for Findability in Library Collections Chapter 6 : Push and Pull of the OPAC Chapter 7 : UThink: Library Hosted Blogs for a University-Wide Community Chapter 8 : Discussing Student Engagement: An Information Literacy Course Blog Chapter 9 : Building Library 2.0 into Information Literacy: A Case Study Chapter 10 : ...

Great movie of the special ucberkeleyevents YouTube channel It's a 70 minute session! Academic Library 2.0 is a state of mind! I love that line... Tags: web2.0 , library2.0 , farkas , berkeley , ucberkeleyevents , youtube , academic library , netvibes , penntags , education

While trying to clear some stuff from my desk, I found the Horizon 2007 Report again and remembered the main items: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less User-Created Content.... Social Networking Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years Mobile Phones Virtual Worlds Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming The new 2008 Report will be published in Januari 2008 at the EDUCAUSE ELI Conference in San Antonio. Here's a glimps to the short-list items mentioned for the Two to Three Years adoption period Mobile Geotagging Socially-Centered Virtual Worlds Scholarly Mashups Want to see the items for One Year or Less? You have to look at the Horizon Project Wiki... And if I keep blogging about stuff I find on my desk I will never be abled to clean it ... Tags: horizon , mobile , social networking , nmc , educause , user-created content , learning , education , teaching

"Dr. Tony O'Driscoll describes the 7 Sensibilities that Differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media and makes the argument that these sensibilities provide us with unprecedented freedom to create true experential learning opportunities" the Sense of Self The Death of Distance The Power of Presence The Sense of Space The Capability to Co-Create The Pervasiveness of Practice The Enrichment of Experience Tags: learning , education , social worlds , virtual worlds , Muve

The following report provides -according to the OCLC website - "insights into the values and social-networking habits of library users". With it's 280 pages it looks perfect reading stuff for Christmas. For me 2008 will be the year of the social networks. For Europe and the Netherlands it will become clearer how developments will go. Will one or two stick out? Will new ones arise? Will the interoperability with OpenSocial really take off? Will our Dutch Hyves change into a more serious network or ...? This report tells you how the situation is right now based on a survey (by Harris Interactive on behalf of OCLC) of the general public from six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and of library directors from the U.S. Tags: social networks , social , library , end-users , habits , user studies , OpenSocial

Last Thursday, December 13th a special program around Library2.0 took place. Some 45 colleagues attended and participated in a work-session to know more about Web2.0 stuff. I am not sure if the link to the photo's is meant to be public. They published it on the Library Intranet site. If I get a green light, it will be up here asap. Here's the list of the speakers: Kees Westerkamp (introduction & chair) Gosse Bouma : about the Semantic Web Henk Ellermann ( a reaction on Gosse's talk and a short but clear opinion about the context & content) Alice Doek : on web 2.0 at the Library of University of Amsterdam (UvA) Guus van den Brekel : "Library2.0 is not a Tool, but a Setting" about Library2.0 and Tools for Users at the Central Medical Library of the UMCG Two YouTube movies were shown: A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto A Vision of Students Today '23 Things' This was mentioned several time and refers to the website " 23 Dingen '. '23 Dingen...

This Meebo Chatbox is configured inside a Conduit Toolbar (OUR QUICKSEARCH CMB LIBRARY TOOLBAR) as a floating window. It stays available no matter where you go. You can even drag it to the side of your screen, whatever you want. It only disappears when you click the X. This way the user can -while chatting with a Librarian- follow his instructions directly and without having to switchs screens. Websites can be visited, settings adjusted, searches analysed, and you will have the chatbox visible all the time! Tags: meebo , conduit , library , toolbar , reference desk , helpdesk , chatbox , chat

The Libraries of the University of Groningen offer as trial a Chatbox on their webpage: http://www.rug.nl/bibliotheek/vragen/chatten Use of this chatbox is not limited from only this page, because a simple Cut-andPaste action can get you the Chatbox everywhere you want: even you own personal Netvibes startpage ... or add it as a floating window to your Toolbar paste it into a Nestor (Blackboard) page add debibliothecaris@rug.nl to your MSN contacts list, and see immediately when the Librarian is online The big difference with just putting static links to the library-webpages all over is that, in the case of the meebo-chatbox, the reference librarian in charge can see immediately when a user opens a page with the chatbox. And in theory the librarian COULD actually pro-active START the chat..... Vraag het de Bibliothecaris ... Ask your Librarian! &lt...

http://islab.org/slsearch/ Islab Second Life Search is a search tool powered by Second Life Official Search Interface, search information including All resources, Wiki, Groups, Peoples, Classifieds. It makes searching for information INSIDE SL even more easier, without having to login SL. Try it! All Wiki Groups People Classifieds Islab Second Life Search is a search tool powered by Second Life Official Search Interface. As from today also included in the Second Life Search Toolbar. Add It To Your Browser Today! Tags: secondlife , search , second life , islab

Just recently EPN published the promised update on their previous report into the use of Second Life. ( Dutch pdf ) The new report is called: "Residents in analyse : De feiten over Second Life na de hype" and is again written by David de Nood & Jelle Attema. For some reason they do not offer the pdf online, but ask you to request it via EPN, info@epn.net . I hope we can expect the english edition soon, freely available. Here's some Dutch info on the press release. Tags: epn , second life , sl , secondlife , report , study

A CBS reportes Tracy Smith dives into Second Life to research what it means to people with personal health challenges. This time she is talking to one person who had to retire after being hit by Multiple Sclerosis (MS), but got herself a new job as Wedding Planner in Second LIfe. Even more stunning is the story about a group of disabled adults with Cerebral Palsy, who have created new lives in the online virtual world called Second Life and build the avatar Wild Cunningham together. See the video here. Tags: secondlife , cbs , health , ms , sl , disabled , multiple sclerosis , wild cunningham

Preview: Music and Dance at HealthInfo Island November 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Edit On healthInfo Island in Second Life an event is taking place on December 1st, WORLD AIDS DAY 2007 in SL. This is a short movie of the SIS/NLM site on HealthInfo Island with a nice combination of healthinformation and Dance. You see Namro Orman in sync with his colleague Alida **Agenda Includes NEW Events!** Please join us at HealthInfo Island for World AIDS Day 2007 on December 1st! See the official site for information about this event of global importance - but be sure to drop by HealthInfo Island: Workshop 09.00 AM SL "Looking for Health: Finding Quality HIV/AIDS Information" by Carolina Keats Tours starting at 10.00 AM SL - and throughout the day.. Please contact us if you want a tour with a special group. Music by DJ 11.00 AM SL Presentations & Discussion 12.00 NOON SL - ChaCha Biedermann, will talk about Support group f...

From a post by by Eloise Pasteur about Academic Research on Second Life: Jennings, Nancy, and Chris Collins. (2007) “Virtual or Virtually U: Educational Institutions in Second Life.” International Journal of Social Sciences , 2(3) , 180-187. Jennings and Collins ( download the paper as PDF ) survey some 170 institutions with a presence in Second Life. Tags: secondlife , academic , education , virtual worlds , sl

Right now, I can only offer our own Netvibes Universe DIGICMB at www.netvibes.com/digicmb . You still HAVE to make your own Netvibes account by yourself and copy all relevant newsfeeds or searchboxes into your own personal start page . (Well, you could ask me to create this account for you or your department, if you really want to try. Let's hope not too many will do this. It's not my job to offer this kind of service at all .... ;-) You also still have to remind yourself that you need to login everyday in Netvibes , instead of just login once in your uni network and get there automatically. You COULD bump into all kinds of weird stuff, get stuck trying to get help or support, because not many know about rss, widgets and gadgets inside this organisation and it is NOT an officially supported service (always beta, right?). I even don't know what our IT-departments would have to say about this, but -for this- we do not need them anyway. They would probably say: better...

| View | Upload your own Another exciting Slidecast of the Day, on Slideshare by Roo Reynolds, shows what is out there and tries to explain why people are "digging" virtual worlds and other social environments. Tags: secondlife , virtual worlds , web3d , ibm , sl , social web

A new medical research tool called CAVEman combines data such as CT scans, X-rays and biopsy results onto the holographic floating image. By adding the 4th dimension, time, specialists can see and study the progress of a physical development or study complex cases with representation of all available data visualised. More pictures Thanks Edwin, for mentioning this on your blog! Tags: CAVEman , 3d , 4D , anatomy , hologram , virtual human , visualisation

We have an excellent bunch of bloggers in the Netherlands. They are always uptodate and do not just scan their own subjects. I will blog later on about a 4-D anatomical CAVEman ( mentioned by ZBdigitaal). But now, I want to mention to a Greasemonkey Firefox script that presents PubMed search results with the Google Scholar citations ( posted by Wowter ). Wowter is again referring to a post by David Rothman , which explains in detail how the script can be installed and used. It is one of Davids frequently used topics, as can be seen when you search for "greasemonkey pubmed" in the Medlib Blog CSE. I think this is really wonderful, but I also seriously wonder if we should not put some kind of disclaimer next to it, because, on numerous occasions we have been warned by Peter Jacso and others about the dubious treatment of metadata by Google. Also I wonder if anybody can explain to me what "80% hit"means .... Tags: google , google scholar , gs , grease...

The NHS Next Stage Review in Second Life The NHS Next Stage Review International Clinical Summit takes place today in real life in London. But remember, you can follow the meeting in Second Life or via the webcast. Dates and times 21 November 2007, 14:20-18:45, Greenwich Mean Time 21 November 2007, 06:20-10:45, Second Life Time (GMT-8) Tags: nhs , secondlife , clinical , sl

My presentation about "Virtuele Werelden, echte bibliotheken"at the NVB annual meeting is online at Slideshare . To give some more info about this exciting subject ;-) here are a few other publications: Kamel Boulos MN, Hetherington L, Wheeler S. Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3D virtual worlds in medical and health education. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2007;24(4):233–245 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/HIR [indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE](soon published, but if you need a copy let me know!) Or: Get your Consumer Health Information from an Avatar! Health and Medical Related Activities in a Virtual Environment . http://www.bm.cm-uj.krakow.pl/eahil/proceedings/oral/vanB... This paper can be also regarded as the FULLTEXT paper for my Dutch presentation yesterday. I just did not have the time to translate it into Dutch. Sorry! I will make an official NVB version, but it still will be in english. Read this great article in today's Washington Post...

Tsja, here's what happens when you try to directly upload a picture from the NVB 2007 meeting to your blog from a new toy -my new HTC TYTN II, before exploring all it's options and possibilities ...;-) It's a picture from the keynote speaker Cor Molenaar about how (and if) we will survive Internet. here's his book: Internet overleven : Van flowerpower tot Second Life More to come soon, about NVB 2007, about my new toy and it's adventures on the trip back to Groningen. Tags: nvb07 , internet , molenaar , htc tytn II

Just published or to be published very soon: Kamel Boulos MN, Hetherington L, Wheeler S. Second Life: an overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical and health education . Health Information and Libraries Journal . 2007;24(4):233–245 The Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos , Lee Hetherington & Steve Wheeler , Faculty of Health and Social Work, Institute of Digital Art and Technology and Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK Abstract: This hybrid review-case study introduces three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds and their educational potential to medical/health librarians and educators. Second life (http://secondlife.com/) is perhaps the most popular virtual world platform in use today, with an emphasis on social interaction. We describe some medical and health education examples from Second Life, including Second Life Medical and Consumer Health Libraries (Healthinfo Island—funded by a grant from the US National Library of Medicine),...

Netvibes recently improved the options to put more stuff on my "Universe Digicmb" even more easier and now i can go on with adding usefull things to share. Have a look at the podcasts of the SirsiDynix Institution via this Universe ! These are very nice subjects. Here are some titles: Dump the Org. Chart: Get `Er Done!: Management for a 2.0 Library Rob Banks —Deputy Director of Operations, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Gina Millsap —Executive Director, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Sep 18, 2007 | 00:01:00 Did you get your MLS in the previous century? More Info Listen Now | Podcast View Now Supplemental Material How to Understand your Library Users - The Better Futures of their Communities and Institutions Pat Wagner —Co-Owner, Pattern Research, Inc. Do you care about the relevance of your library to the changing worlds of the people who use it? If so, the mission of your strategic plan ...

The New issue of the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries is out! It's a big one with loads of interesting stuff about the Krakow experience and one featured article: Could Blended Teaching Be the Successful Way of Educating in a Multi-tasking, Multi-media and Multi-faceted Society? A Positive Experience at the Italian National Institute of Health -- Federica Napolitani, Vincenzo Rafti, Alberto Quagliata, Rita Pacchierini Abstract : The paper will present an innovative successful teaching experience recently carried out at the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS), together with the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Rome. A course on Models and Instruments of Communication was organized using, for the first time, a blended methodology based on combining or blending of multiple teaching styles (i.e. classroom and e-learning). The course was aimed at internal managerial staff, and was hig...

Did the user and the world change in Spike City (Spijkernisse)? Not if I look at the somewhat passive attitude of the specialists and gp’s gathered around for a CEC-like event in the Ruwaard van Putten Hospital , organised by the library of that hospital. Probably, it was the long working day ánd the long staff meeting they had just before the meeting, that prevented them from massively engaging themselves in active discussions. Or was it the buffet and wine;-) And no, their world has not changed that much, restricted they are by hospital rules concerning computer access and confidential data. Their workflow requires the most easy access to ejournals, ebooks and databases. That’s their primary concern, and that’s what triggered them to ask questions on occasion, while presented with new ways of searching and accessing MD Consult , OVIDSP and their local version of the Digital Library, developed by Ingressus . My presentation about what has been going on óutside their scope, on...

Google will launch somewhere this week OpenSocial , a set of tools for developers to make interoperability and connectivity between social network applications happen. The social glue or lubrication that will make it easier to integrate special widgets into a social network like Facebook or Hyves (the booming Dutch network: already 4.670.148 members since oct 1st 2004!). So many of these social networks are popping up everywhere, and it seems only logical that it will be possible to exchange information and functionalities between these sites. We have seen this patern happen a few times now, and still see it happening all around us. Open Standards, OpenUrl, OpenSource, OpenSearch etc. Virtual World are multiplying everywhere too. The concept of interoperability has popped up there too. For the Dutch Hyves - and our main users inside Hyves - this could mean a lot. Libraries will be abled in a better way to develop library services inside social networks and make good use of the unlimit...

See the Trailer of the new Dutch book about the Einstein generation See the Dutch summary to read more or look at the YouTube movie published recently about this generation (in Dutch)

The presentation of Stephen Abram at the ILI2007 is still in my mind. Although I knew a lot of stuff he mentioned, it triggered me again to focus even harder on studies about the new generations that are already amongst us (as student or staff) or soon will be. What stuck to me, was the fact that research showed that even the brain patterns of this Millenials show significant differences to others. Abram also cites the research of Richard T. Sweeney about Millenials. Sweeneys powerpoint and article are really good stuff to read. The mere knowledge that these various learning styles co-exist in our classrooms and the information about their differences should trigger educators and librarians in developing new ways of offering information. What else is changing and where is it going? everything is getting smaller. your pockets in 2020 will be filled with an unimaginable amount of information available via gadgets that get smaller and smaller the focus will be on the context, rather ...

The Library promotes the use of RSS-newsfeeds within the UMCG and the University of Groningen. Download News about UMCG publications and the CMB! (Use mouse over the text and choose Rightclick; Save Target as) The Windows University Workstation(UWP) offers you by default the Sharpreader with IT News to staff and students The Central Medical Library (CMB) now offers you a so-called OPML file , which can be IMPORTED into this SharpReader or your preferred RSSfeed reader. The Library advices you to use the online personal startpage tool, Netvibes ( www.netvibes.com ). This OPML CMB news file contains the new UMCG publications in PubMed and the repository, tables of contents of top medical journals etc. How to "import" an OPML-file in theSHARPREADER? - Click RightMouse above the link of the OPML file (CMBoktober2007.xml), and choose "Save Target As" (or ...

The ILI2007 started with a bang ( Stephen Abram ) and ended with a flash ( Phil Bradley ), but in between, you had to really search the few little gems. They should not have programmed that many talks with just 15 minutes. However I will report about some of those talks in the next couple of days. An very intriging new search for the Stadsbiblioteket in Denmark is called SUMMA. They call it integrated search instead of federated search and plan to become Open Source in 2008. It was amazingly fast and sophisticated. Come to think of it, the story reminds me very much of our own Livetrix development at Groningen. It was a good presentation and rumours were whispering that it will be used in a few university libraries in the Netherlands. Summa is based on user studies. One such study is The hybrid library: from the user's perspective . [pdf 22 mb) pictures ILI2007 Tags: ili2007 , summa , livetrix , stadsbiblioteket , hybrid library , searching , search

2.0 anarchy bunch change chaos don’t call it web 2.0 embrase empower end-users forget about that fun I am sorry for you, but I just can’t be bothered (anymore) I JUST DON’T CARE (ANYMORE) If you want it or not it’s a fun thing to do It’s happening (anyway) Just do it! Mindset No, but… not all at once Playing around Playing is a good thing Scared Start with one Stuff Things Threats To be honest Use it! Useful Web 2.0 Whether you like it or not Yes, and … This Phrase Cloud is a FIRST DRAFT of a visual impression of Phil Bradleys Speech at the Internet Librarian International 2007 in London. This first draft is based on the notes of Guus van den Brekel. To be added/scanned yet: Phil's own notes that go with the powerpoint via Slideshare Please feel free to suggest phrases or suggestions! and the recorded audio file (by Ake on Bib.se) Tags: ili2007 , phrase cloud , phil bradley , web2.0

The LiteraTour in Library 2.0, a planned EU project, will be a pan-European journey through the bookshelves of adult learners. Nygren explains the project, which will make use of social software. Internet Librarian International 2007. To see a recorded session of the talk, see the movie PPT Tags: ili2007 , literatour , library2.0

Somehow Second life was mentioned very often at the ILI2007 in London and it was not just during my co-presentation with Kitty Pope & Barbara Galik. Even Stephen Abram talked about it a lot, because he thinks it is definitely part of web 2.0 and partly because SirsiDynix sponsors a couple of island for the Sl Library project. He thinks it is all going to be about the CONTEXT and less about content. The Second Life presentation slides will be online soon, but for people who can not wait on http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb you can see the slides from Eahil Krakow (almost the same). As a little bonus here the poster: Tags: sl , second life , secondlife , als , alliance library system , ili2007

The opening of the ILI2007 Conference in London at the Copthorne Tara hotel was INSPIRING to say the least. Some would say I do not need to be inspired, but the presentation by stephen Abram, President-Elect, SLA and Sirsidynix (Canada) was everything that I have been reading and thinking about the directions Libraries should take up.immediatly. No waiting, further researching, trying to improve exciting systems and tools. He collected all arguments & proof about shifting environments, learning styles, growing & altered brains from the youth. The network is changing the behaviour of our users and we should jump on that train to at least BE THERE where the user is searching for his information, at the point of need. I can go home now. But I really want to thank him for mentioning Second Life, Kitty Pope & Barbara Galik several times in his speech. It will make our presentation of this afternoon easier. So far I am amazed, because SL was actually mentioned in every single o...

Real Hope in a Virtual World: Online Identities Leave Limitations Behind By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 6, 2007 Read this great article in today's Washington Post about many of the great things going on in Second Life and a picture of the accessibility center at HealthInfo Island. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502391.html?referrer=emailarticle Be sure to watch the great VIDEO about medical education training in SL too! Virtual operation and emergency rooms to train and teach medical students. And the pictures of the Alter Ego's! Are you interested in MORE health and medical groups & sims in Second Life? Have a look at the new wiki: SL Healty And also the overview "Web 2.0 and the 3D Web (Virtual Worlds and Second Life)" of MB Chevalier, a.k.a. M.N.K. Boulos : http://healthcybermap.org/sl.htm Tags: secondlife , healthinfoisland , infoisland , ivinnie , accessibility center , ...