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Join  MedLibMob Community Facebook Fan Page: *   http://www.facebook.com/pages/MedLibMob/173310729366445     or the  The MedLibMob Group: *   http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_174021102617943   As we are busy in our library ( Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen , The Netherlands) with an iPad on Loan Project, ánd working on a new mobile library site, I suddenly thought how easy it would be to have community of medical librarians & libraries to: exchange information and experiences with (creating) mobile medical library sites and/or apps. create listings of existing and future content providers supporting mobile devices share knowledge about and review the fast growing range of Medical Apps for mobile devices on any relevant platforms (iPhone, iPads, Android, etc...) This new Facebook group has CHAT features (till we reach >250 members), post, links, photo's, videos, events. To connect sever...

The Web, the User and the Library View more presentations from Guus van den Brekel . GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ZB MED : Knowledge for Life :  http://digicmb.blogspot.com/2010/12/german-national-library-of-medicine-zb.html

Love padlocks bridge in Cologne with the Dom This week I was in Cologne, Germany in the German National Library of Medicine, the ZB MED , the second largest medical library of the world.  The "ZB MED is the Federal Republic of Germany's central specialist library of medicine, health, nutrition, the environment, and agriculture, and was f ounded in 1969.  I was asked to perform a consultation t ogether with team leaders and the director Ulrich Korwitz. We did spend almost a whole day discussing their new Strategic plans for 2010-2012, including marketing  and PR. The slides of my morning session are available here . The ZB Med has developed a wide range of interesting quality resources and services over the years. the Document delivery service The MEDPILOT : unique medical information portal and search engine using semantic techniques which enables multiple languages as input and quality matching with key concepts, facetting, combined with ordering service ...

In Google Places you can register your library to appear in Google Maps.  This is how the CMB UMCG looks now in there. You can add images and links to your website. The possibility to add information in the description is useful. Once a month you get your stats in an email, but you can view it online too of course. This month the free Google Places Registration of our library generated:  5421 impressions & 216 extra hits to library website, per month  http://bit.ly/ceFi4b I would like to see more stats of libraries using this.  This week I added some extra links to our new LibGuides (see below). I hope to generate some more traffic. Anything helps ...:-) Resources for  Medicine Resources for  Dentistry Resources for  Human Movement Sciences Related articles Are libraries popular venues? What location based services say.  ( http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com ) Google Maps: You Are Here (libraryjournal....

Via the new Facebook Group "Library Related People" a discussion was started about the use of WebMynd Sidebars . Mark Puterbaugh ,  Information Systems Librarian (Warner Memorial Library, Eastern University) answered positive to my question if he could see any good use of such a sidebar for consumer health resources. When asked for which resources it should include next to the obvious MedLinePlus , he added MayoClinic , the FDA and PubMed  "Primarily it could be used as a reference tool while preparing for research. Students could use this to explore a topic in which they have an interest before hitting the commercial databases. Consumer based resources are excellent tools in which to gather the ideas and terminology that may be unfamiliar." It took me 5 minutes to create the 4URHealth Sidebar (install page) I used the simple widget feature for all 4 resources. In most cases this simple widget feature works fine, but offers little options to fine-tu...

What Phil has found View more presentations from Phil Bradley . I found 6 presentations from ILI2010 on Slideshare tagged with "ïli2010" Mashing libraries to build communities from  ostephens , posted 3 weeks ago in Technology. 217 views Presentation given at Internet Librarian International 2010 (ILI2010) What Phil has found from  Philbradley , posted 4 weeks ago in Education, Technology. 1855 views My presentation given at the Internet Librarian International 2010 conference on October 15th. A. Rose by any other name from  amandahill , posted 4 weeks ago in Technology, Education. 98 views The Names Project, as presented at Internet Librarian International, 15 October 2010. Social Search from  KarenBlakeman , posted 4 weeks ago in Technology, Business & Mgmt. 492 views Presentation given at Internet Librarian International, 15th October 2010, London Do libraries have a future? from  bethanar , posted 1 month ago. 353 views Pode ...