Space Up Your Library : The Social Net Works!

“Space Up”Your Library

The Social Net Works …!Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, UMCG at EAHIL2008Helsinki, 23rd - 28th of June 2008

“SPICE up your life!”

Setting

Population

Intervention

Comparison

Evaluation

Evidence-Based Librarianship: Answering relevant and important questions in Librarianship. Andrew Booth, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Based Healthcare Information, ScHARR

“Towards a new information

SPACE” innovations and renovations

Theme EAHIL 2008 Helsinki

“Into The User Environment” Part 2

What happened in between….?

• Visibility : Into the Workflow of User

• Many Library Toolbars & Browser stuff

• FAQs:– Can I add my own stuff? (personalization)

– I want to have it in my own space

Growing use of WEB 2.0 within Library community, but even more

by our users

Trends

• Even more web-based• Mobile internet• Web 3D • Ongoing possibilities in

personalization, but also

Further Growth & Evolving of (Social) Networks

What is a Social Network?

“A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.”

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, June 17th 2008)

What is it about?

It’s All About:

• Wanting to connect

• Seeing what others are doing

• Networking & Communication

Special Networks for

• Doctors• Clinicians• Researchers• Nurses• Students• (Medical) Librarians

Ozmosis: http://www.ozmosis.com

Sermo: http://www.sermo.com

SocialMD: http://www.socialmd.com

ANA NursingWorld: http://www.nursingworld.org

NurseLinkUP: http://nurselinkup.com

TiroMED: http://www.tiromed.com

DoctorsHangout: http://doctorshangout.ning.com/

Student Dentist: http://studentdentist.ning.com/

Assessment for Health Sciences Libraries: http://libassess.ning.com/

Library 2.0: Medical and Health Science Libraries: http://library20.ning.com/group/medicalandhealthsciencelibraries

Reasons NOT to ignore Social Networks

• Efficiency possibilities • Build professional communities

– Clinical – Research – Management

• Build learning communities • Build sharing communities• Build community support through

outreach

Online Social Networks in Healthcare & LibrariesPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

More Reasons NOT to ignore Social Networks

• Connection, communication, collaboration, consultation

• Discuss & share information (articles, photos, videos, cases, data, methodologies)

• Emerging trends, topics, medications, treatments, insights in your field

• Global, international connections & opportunities

Online Social Networks in Healthcare & LibrariesPF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Bringing the Tools to The Content & to The User

From Toolbar To Searchbox

Simple html Searchbox: flexible, tailor-made

But how about maintenance and control?

From SearchBox To “ Universal” Widgets

• A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation.

• Or: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake.

NLM SEARCH WIDGET

BLOGWEBSITE iGoogle

Netvibes

MyYahooFACEBOOK

MySpaceOpera Windows Live Apple Dashboard

Vista

INTRANET

http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/229971/nlm-search-solutions

Some statsPubMed 1482MedlinePlus 961MedWorm 815DermAtlas 500KMLE Medical Dictionary 593ToXSeek 590HazMap 402Consumer Health and Patient Education 473Mesh Search Swedish-English 522UpToDate 110 NLM ALL Search 174NLM Gateway 22 (New)Search ALL EAHIL Websites 20 (new)

SEE ALL MY Netvibes WIDGETS: http://eco.netvibes.com/users/9148

Creating widgets

– Eco.netvibes.com– Widgetbox.com– OpenSocial

From Widgets To Social Networks …. anywhere

• Social Networks

• Websites, intranet,blogs

• Personal start pages

• embed and install options

From Widgets to Personal Start Page Tools

• Netvibes, iGoogle or Pageflakes or…• Our Choice: Netvibes

www.netvibes.com

From Personal Start Page to Published “Universe”

• Online Published Selection: “Universe”• “Toolbox Take-Away & Tailor-made”• Sharing, collaboration, cooperation,

education & training• www.netvibes.com/cmb• www.netvibes.com/digicmb• www.netvibes.com/ruglibraries• www.netvibes.com/educmb

WWW.NETVIBES.COM/EAHIL2008

PennTags & PennPortal

• http://tags.library.upenn.edu/

• http://www.library.upenn.edu/

“The Web is Ours”

• User chooses and creates• It’s no threat, but an additional thing,

supplementary• If the user can do it himself, the library

should have done it before, for him

Play a role –as Library/Librarians in innovation in education, research, projects, collaboration…

Our Focus as Medical Library

• Improve & Extend Tailor-made Services (including personal start pages)

• Quick Search & Take-Away (with Widgets & Universes)

• Alerts & RSS • Outreach (Get out of the Library)• Instruction & Education : Screencasts• Adjust Courses including “Web-Literacy”

Further Reading• Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/digicmb/socialnetworking• Book: Social Software in Libraries / Meredith Farkas• Slideshare: Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries /

PF Anderson• WhitePaper: Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution

of Communication• Book: Linked - How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else

and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life • Report: Social Networking : A quantitative and qualitative research

report into attitudes, behaviours and use. OfCom, April 2008. The pdf and the story BBC News .

• Report: Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World [OCLC - Membership reports]

• Blog: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services: • DIGICMB: http://www.netvibes.com/digicmb

“To boldly go where your users have gone before”