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Here is some extra info on the Continuing education courses and workshop for medical librarians held in St. Petersburg at the Library of Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies . Transfer of knowledge VIII: Providing and managing evidence based health information, June 16-18, 2009 The courses were made possible thanks to grants from SMH and the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services through the Cooperation Programme on Health and Related Social Issues in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. BMJ and Ovid have also sponsored this year's project. Presentations in pdf : Getting Clinical Evidence into Practice . BMJ Clinical Evidence and BMJ Best Practice. Steve Thorpe, BMJ The Role of Patient Information in Evidence Based Medicine . Eva Alopaeus SMIL Patient Information Database . Tiina Heino Free Medical Resources on the Internet (in Russian) . List Velta Poznaka Google Scholar – the good, the bad, and the ugly . Elisabeth Akre PubMed news. Astrid Müller The Trans...

June 16 (Tuesday) 1:30 pm SLT-2:15pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/ Virtual%20Ability/54/169/22/ Health Care New Media Marketing Conference: Connecting to Consumer's in Today's Healthcare Environment Second Life: The Key to Futuristic Communication and Patient Care Health Care Collaboration & Community in Virtual Worlds & Second Life Second only to the general concept of Web 2.0, virtual worlds are the source of more articles in PubMed than any other emerging social technology. Of the many virtual worlds, Second Life (a free, open source 3d virtual world platform) is the one with the strongest presence in health care communities, from patient groups and medical education to research and professional meetings. Second Life can enable health systems to create either public or secure private spaces for functions from patient education, outreach, staff training, remote meetings, or more. As with any social technology, understanding the context and norms of the online ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

At the Zorg 2.0 Event on March 24th the website of the Dutch knowledge portal for acute care was launched called AcuteZorg.nl. AcuteZorg.nl wants to exchange knowledge and information among professionals, foster care, by providing a digital platform with reliable information. In addition the aim is to introduce the possibilities of new media to health care professionals. One part of the site is under the tab "Library". Here is some translated info about this library: The website www.acutezorg.nl/bibliotheek is the result of a partnership between the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht (Julius Centrum voor Gezondheidswetenschappen en Eerstelijns Geneeskunde, UMC Utrecht ) and the Dutch Knowledge Center, Primary Care Centers and Acute Care, (Nederlands Kenniscentrum Huisartsenposten en Spoedzorg), UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen. Both organizations have scientific expertise in the field of emergency and acute care on general items, ambulance serv...