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The New Digital Divide and Trends shaping Libraries

Helene Blowers was in Rotterdam at the DB Update 2010 Conference (March 25th 2010) and did a keynote with the title "Reality Check 2010 : 5 Trends shaping Libraries" The Digital book race is on Mobile Build Bridges Faster Augmenting is the New Information Window Print is in Peril  There is a New Digital Divide I loved this talk and the presentation! Besides the 5 Trends, I was happy to see the New Digital Divide put down so clearly. (See Slide 43 or read below) When Libraries act on these, the shape of the library will shift. Reality Check 2010: 5 Trands Shaping Libraries View more presentations from hblowers . To show the New Digital Divide more clearly, I wrote them down here : Those who know how to "think" about search vs. those who don't  Those who know how to validate soft information vs. those who don't Those who know where to find information in new hot channels vs. those who don't Those who understand the cu...

PubMed Toolbar updated : databases, tools, twitter, AltPubMed ...

In the "ALT PUBMED" Menu of the Pubmed Toolbar more nice tools are to be discovered in the section PUBMED TOOLS. Added Today: If you have a Conduit Toolbar, you can Add PubMed related buttons, menu's and even complete widgets to it (Currently, NLM PillBox and QuickSearch NLM Searches, more to come soon!) Chrome Extensions to be added to the fastest growing new Browser from Google. Now available: Radiopaedia , a nice citation generator for Pubmed. Just add PMID, DOI or ISBN. a large list of Add-Ons using Pubmed and related from Mozilla for:  Firefox, SeaMoneky, Thunderbird, Mobile and SunBird A classic post by David Rothman about "How to: Add PubMed to the search bar of Firefox 2.0 or IE7 " (or higher) Added yesterday :   4 links to available tools that can help you start a search in PubMed, NLM, NCBI or related databases.  You can now add Pubmed to your Google Toolbar as a Button and more...  See all Widgetbox widgets for Pubmed to add ...