“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, [email protected]
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, [email protected]
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”