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Custom Search Engine (CSE): Consumer Health & Patient Education

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. ...

Tools for making bibliographies: what do users use?

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...

Learn to type while playing!

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 .

BlackBoard partners with GOOGLE

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

Did a BioMedical Librarian Blog on This before? Or anybody else?

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?

Bringing Library to Searcher

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.

Health RSS Feednavigator as Library Service

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