DigiCMB

Here's a short overview of the Library Toolbars use within our institution: QuickSearch CMB Toolbar (27 september 2007): Downloads : 1114 (without the network installations). Daily use is still rising and has an average of 150 simultanous users. The number of searches has risen to around 150 per day and the number of "clicks"/activity is more and more regularly between 450 and 500. Student Toolbar: Downloads: 717 (without the network installations). Daily use is somewhere between 200 and 220 at this time, but still rising. This means over 200 students have their browser open at the same time with the Toolbar active on that day! The amount of searches per day is 100, and the student activity on the Toolbar is very high compared to the "general" toolbar: peaking at 750 right now. CMB QuickSearchBox Making searchfacilities tailor-made is relatively simple if you combine this Toolbar & simple html. The Search boxes can be published on intra-of internet. ...

Tonight at 20.30 (GMT +1 = 11.30 AM SL Time) there will be a gathering of Swedisch Librarians in Second Life around HealthInfo Island. My avatar Namro Orman will give them an extensive tour of HealthInfo Island and the InfoIsland Archipelago. Please feel free to join us! Ask me to TP you if you do not know how to find HealthInfo Island. Here's a link to previously blog posts from inside SL. You can also TP for there. posted by Namro Orman on Healthinfo Island

The SJSU School of Library & Information Science (SLIS)Second Life Campus is featured in a QUEST story that did air on KQED 9 and KQED HD on Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. The video of the SLIS portion of the QUEST feature story is below. If you were asking yourself what a Library school could in Second Life, here's a nice example. One of the teachers states that she has not been giving classes in a physical environment for over 6 years now. Tags: secondlife , sl , sjsu , library science , video , campus , distance learning , virtual teaching , SLIS

“Roughly, there are two kinds of people: those who look through technology...and are stretching themselves out to touch the goal and those who want it NOW...and go bah, without even living and breathing in virtual environments, understand and see thru.. .the little glitches. “It's the first ones that will decide how far developments will go in virtual environments like Second Life.” (after Ramesh Ramloll aka Moriz Gupte, Play2Train) Have a discussion about this at your campfire! It is a challenge to make those two come closer together. Should the library play a leading role in this development? Well, somebody within your organisation should , and if nobody is doing it, libraries should graps this chance to jump in and play a stimulating role. Information architecture, content management, distribution, searchability & maximum findability, that's what we should be focussing on. If you have a state of the art information management systems, integrated, interconnected ...

All the powerpoints and pdf's of the fulltext versions of EAHIL Workshop 2007 in Krakow are now online! Here are my favourites: Artur Furtado (European Commission, DG SANCO, Luxembourg) (where is his ppt?) Health Information and eHealth in the EU Andrew Booth (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom). New Breed or Different Species: is the 21st Century Health Information Professional Generic or Specific? Stefan J. Darmoni (Rouen University Hospital, France) Information and Communication Technologies in Modern Health Library Barbara Grala, Witold Kozakiewicz (Poland) Infobrokering and Searching the Deep Web - the New Role of Employee of the Department of Medical Scientific Information John D. Gilbert(Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands) The Library Workforce in a Changing Environment: from Threats to Challenges Ann McKibbon (Canada) Medical Librarians and Research: Myths, Realities, and Opportunities Wouter Schallier (Belgium) Information Literacy in Academic Curricula - A ...

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is not new, it just was called Evidence Based Librarianship before. Every librarian should be aware of and have extensive knowledge about this model, as it can support and improve day-today decision-making. The concept got a real boost for a lot of people in Krakow during the EAHIL 2007 Workshop at his fullday CEC called "Using Evidence in Day toDay Practice: an EBLIP Update". Here's the course outline: Overview of EBLIP Burning Questions/Current Issues Sourcing the Evidence The EBLIP Journal Club Making Sound Library Decisions Decision-making tools and aids Although I am convinced every librarian should know and use at least the basics of this model, a greater role should be played by more regional or national health organisations to take part in this. One can not deny that it is a time-consuming activity that many can not practice in day-to-day workload.Re-configuration of tasks and roles seems logic to be able t...

HealthInfo Island : Come See What We’ve Got! Carolina Keats presents a workshop on vision resources, focusing on those available through MedlinePlus. Meet us next Friday at 6 a.m. SLT on HealthInfo Island (87,144,21) for an informal presentation followed by a tour of HealthInfo Island.