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Presented for Vancouver Coastal Health AuthorityEugene BarskyPhysio Outreach Librarian, I.K. Barber Learning Centre, UBCJuly 9, 2007
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Social technology in health library practice and outreach
Presented for Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Eugene BarskyPhysio Outreach Librarian, I.K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC
July 9, 2007
[email protected]://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/
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Goals of this session
Introduce social software to health information professionals
Provide and share personal experiences
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Why use technology at all? My view…
Hospital library days as space with journals and books are almost over (I give it 7-10 years…)Hospital library mission is to facilitate access and use of evidence to improve the quality of careLibrary needs to train clinicians to access and use evidenceClinicians don’t have time and resources to locate and evaluate primary literature – frequently they need help or literature digests (point-of-care tools)Hospital librarians become technologists and work closer with the IT departmentsChampions: Stephen Abram, Dean Giustini, David Rothman…
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Physio outreach project – whom do we serve?
We serve 1,700 practicing physiotherapists in BC
The challenge is to serve diverse information needs of practicing health professionals: clinical and research
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Social tools to be covered…
Blogs
RSS feeds
Podcasting / Audiocasting
Instant messaging
Wikis
** For more social software in health libraries, see Guistini & Barsky CE class on social software (2007) >> http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca
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What is blog?
A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of web content
Pros of blogs:No need to know html codingNo need to find server spaceUsually freeAllow interactivity and sharing
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How we use a blog?
UBC Physio Info-blog is the central communication tool for the physio outreach librarian (http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/):
WorkshopsAudiocastsTutorials New services and tools, etc.
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What is RSS?
Pushed vs. pulled content from blogs and websites
Instead of you going to check for new info – the info comes to you
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How we use RSS feeds?
Physio Blog RSS feed
Mix RSS from medical databases (PubMed and CINAHL) -http://www.feeddigest.com/
RSS feed mixing for Health & Science info (CBC, BBC, NYT, IHT)
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What is podcasting?
Audio files, thrown on RSS feed
Download themselves to the subscribers’ machines
Average size of recording into mp3 is 1MB for one minute
Because of the file sizes (50-60MB), we also use audiocasting –no automatic downloads
Don’t need iPod
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How we use podcasting?
Record local rehabilitation sciences workshops and seminars [http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/podcasts/]
Support UBC Physio School systematic reviews course by recording students’ presentations
Store and preserve the content on UBC institutional repository [https://dspace.library.ubc.ca]
We use Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – free open source software (can run from USB memory)
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How we use podcasting?
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What is Instant Messaging (IM)?
A system which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network
Very popular with NextGens, Generations Y and X (young health professionals)
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How we use IM:
An IM gadget (MeeboMe) is installed on the blog
Personalization with a photo
Found to be pretty popular
Messages are private
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What is wiki?
An online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
Medicine - http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ (by David Rothman)
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How we use wiki?
Create and share new health information for health librarians -UBC HealthLib-Wiki - http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca
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Contact info
Eugene Barsky, MLISPhysiotherapy Outreach LibrarianIrving K. Barber Learning CentreUniversity of British ColumbiaPhone: (604) 827-4088Fax: (604) 822-9122Email: [email protected]/Meebo: [email protected]: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/Web: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/
