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Taskforce Web 2.0 EAHIL Startup!

The latest issue of the Journal of Eahil contains an article called : Working, Sharing, Communicating, Learning and Teaching with others : the use of Web 2.0 tools for EAHIL Council, Board and Members . The original proposal was written in Januari 2009 by Guus van den Brekel, Ronald van Dieën, Oliver Obst and put to the EAHIL Board in Februari. You can read the edited version for the JEAHIL just below in the first post of this blog. (It is showing a pdf version in a "social publishing tool" called Scribd ) This is what we finally are trying to achieve: "The proposal envisioned the following environment where appropriate social networking tools for EAHIL members and member organisations are introduced, explained and discussed to understand how useful some of these technologies can be in libraries. experiences and reviews of different tools are gathered and published. Aspects to enclose are local differences and trends between EAHIL countries, to learn what the ...

Education and Teaching in Second Life

Image by testdriverone via Flickr I wrote a Dutch article about Education and Teaching in SL about 6 weeks ago, focussing on the Kamimo project, http://kamimo-islands. blogspot.com/ It was published in a new journal on digital libraries, http:/digbib.nl For all of you who strangly enough do NOT read Dutch that easily... Here is the automated translation of it via Google Translate at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/ 15729296/Education-and- Teaching-in-Second-Life I have no time to do a proper translation sorry. (Alliance Library Systems and Infoisland Archipelago is mentioned of course!) I also wrote a book review, also in Dutch on the excellent book Learning and Teaching in the Virtual World of Second Life by Judith Molka-Danielsen and Mats Deutschmann (eds.) http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/ en/node/1195 People from Kamimo continued working in a new project together with University of Manchester. T...

Medical Libraries using LibGuides : various approaches

springshare : @digicmb - here are lists of medical libraries ( http://bit.ly/1NFyj ) and hospitals ( http://bit.ly/3g4km ) using LibGuides It started with a Tweet on wanting to know who was using LibGuides in Medical Libraries. At the University of Groningen the libraries are working on making SUBJECT GUIDES with LibGuides and I thought the fastest way to find out what and where was a quick Tweet. Of course I should have searched for myself IN LibGuides to find out, but this way was more easier, and I believe using the contacts in Twitter makes it possible to get móre than just the links and recieve also experiences and comments. Other also now know I am working on that in Groningen... The use is very different. Some actually look a bit like Netvibes Universes, but without the sharing part and with the option of moving stuff around of course for the users. Here is one from Becker Medical Library on Medical Podcasts A really nice well-filled example of a Subject Guide (but th...

“Share the Health: Training People with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions on How to Locate Quality Health Information

Image by testdriverone via Flickr Must really get back into writing posts... I blame Twitter .. I think it's marvellous but it takes away the edge a little bit to write on the blogs about it again.. This you must read! Virtual Ability has the absolute best and most beautiful Orientation Isand to learn getting around in Second Life. Alliance Library System is pleased to make the final report for the project “Share the Health” available on the web at http://www. alliancelibrarysystem.com/ pdf09/ Sharethehealthfinalreportmay20 09.pdf . This project was funded with a contract from the National Library of Medicine Greater Midwest Region. “We are very pleased that this project accomplished so much in terms of helping people with disabilities and chronic health conditions learn where to find credible health information and also how to navigate the virtual world of Second Life ,” stated Kitty Pope, ALS Executive Director. “Much of this population is homebound and virtual worlds gi...