DigiCMB

Trondheim is the scene of my focus coming week where the 1st conference on Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries organized by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.   They called it EMTACL10, hopefully the first in a range to follow. I have the pleasure and honour to participate in the International Programm Committee, so it is not that strange to tweet and blog frequently about EMTACL10 lately :-) The hashtag for tweets is: #emtacl10 The tag when blogging: EMTACL10 Here's how to follow what is happening in Trondheim: Get the EMTACL10 widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info ) When you are not tweeting, you can follow the back-channel via :  http://twubs.com/emtacl10 PLease join the TWUB and invite others. On the Twub you can also see the other social media links for EMTACL10 : EMTACL10 on Facebook EMTACL10 Twitter FLICKR GROUP EMTACL10 Google Wave EMTACL10 Linkedin Event EMTAC...

Somehow, Aaron Tay   from NUS Libraries   and I keep passing eachother good stuff back and forth, and usually Aaron ends up writing the big posts :-) Somehow, I can't take that much time to write extensively, and therefore many ideas, examples, resources and stuff end up being uploaded automatically at my Delicious (By Packrati.us). A few weeks back I noticed a tweet from Aaron about Drag & Drop Search Extension in Google's Chrome Browser. (See all Chrome Extensions:  https://chrome.google.com/extensions ) Although searching in Chrome is easy: you can just start a search from the address-bar  (Chrome removed the top-right searchbox that FF & IE browsers still have), selection and managing the search engines is not that obvious or intuitive. It can be done via Options. Another cool feature is that Chrome does not wait untill YOU decide to save or collect your most used search engines, but IT COLLECTS MOST USED SEARCH ENGINES AUTOMATICALLY when you visi...

The quality of medical and patient information is remarkably high. It is organized in a logical way,  (at Webicina.com ) , offers nice RSS tools to make searching & keeping up-to-date easier ( PeRSSonalized Medicine , plus tons of extra information about Health & Web 2.0 (at ScienceRoll.com ) Perfect to put in a condensed way into a Toolbar that is always close to you, in your browser. Give it a try. The Webicina Toolbar : Quality Medical Information Close To You View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel . toolbar powered by Conduit

Why create something new if you can use the good work of other? The library does not want to wait any longer and offer the users a mobile webpage. The UBA (University Library of Amsterdam) launched their beta mobile site at UGameULearn 2010 (#ugul10) at a lightning talk of 7 minutes. Uba Mobile View more presentations from Lukas Koster . A few days later a 7-minutes "ripp-off" by @ PetervBoheemen    from Wageningen UR appeared in a tweet by @wowter . I already promised @Lukask planned to work on a CMB UMCG version, but now I took some time to change the url's (because basically that's what took about 7 minutes :-) Here is the CMB UMCG version Most important about all these mobile pages, is that: it's beta, we are working on improving it, based on : user input, common sense and available resources  we can change things fast. So let us know how we can improve or add stuff!

Although I create my widgets with Widgetbox these days, the Netvibes widgets are still well used. In short my reasons for creating these: This way I can embed taylor-made search boxes in webpages ánd the hospital´s Intranet. This to compensate the fact that not all staff is allowed to install our Library Toolbar Users can choose WHERE to install them, take it away, share etc  I can offer them in our Library Toolbox, a Public Netvibes Page Starting a direct search in one of these boxes, takes users direct  into the native interface, to refine their search. The MultiSearch boxes show users there are more resources to use than just the one they are used to. Search via these boxes, is made possible via the Conduit Toolbars, and offer a top frame list of all other resources available to search HERE IS MY TOP 5 Top Search widget out of my list is BY FAR: MEDLINEPLUS, with 1581 installs GET IT HERE From the Largest Medical Library in the World! The PiCarta Wi...

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...

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 ...