Space Up Your Library : The Social Net Works!

Slide 1: “Space Up”Your Library The Social Net Works …! Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, UMCG at EAHIL2008 Helsinki, 23rd - 28th of June 2008

Slide 2: “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

Slide 4: “Towards a new information SPACE” innovations and renovations Theme EAHIL 2008 Helsinki

Slide 5: “Into The User Environment” Part 2

Slide 6: What happened in between….? Growing use of WEB 2.0 within Library community, but even more by our users • 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

Slide 7: Trends • Even more web-based • Mobile internet • Web 3D • Ongoing possibilities in personalization, but also Further Growth & Evolving of (Social) Networks

Slide 8: 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)

Slide 9: What is it about? It’s All About: • Wanting to connect • Seeing what others are doing • Networking & Communication

Slide 11: Special Networks for • Doctors • Clinicians • Researchers • Nurses • Students • (Medical) Librarians

Slide 12: Ozmosis: http://www.ozmosis.com

Slide 13: Sermo: http://www.sermo.com

Slide 14: SocialMD: http://www.socialmd.com

Slide 15: ANA NursingWorld: http://www.nursingworld.org

Slide 16: NurseLinkUP: http://nurselinkup.com

Slide 17: TiroMED: http://www.tiromed.com

Slide 18: DoctorsHangout: http://doctorshangout.ning.com/

Slide 19: Student Dentist: http://studentdentist.ning.com/

Slide 20: Assessment for Health Sciences Libraries: http://libassess.ning.com/

Slide 21: Library 2.0: Medical and Health Science Libraries: http://library20.ning.com/group/medicalan dhealthsciencelibraries

Slide 23: 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 & Libraries PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Slide 24: 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 & Libraries PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Slide 25: Bringing the Tools to The Content & to The User

Slide 26: From Toolbar To Searchbox Simple html Searchbox: flexible, tailor-made But how about maintenance and control?

Slide 27: 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.

Slide 28: NLM SEARCH WIDGET WEBSITE INTRANET iGoogle BLOG Netvibes FACEBOOK MyYahoo Vista MySpace Opera Windows Live Apple Dashboard http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/229971/nlm-search-solutions

Slide 29: Some stats PubMed 1482 MedlinePlus 961 MedWorm 815 DermAtlas 500 KMLE Medical Dictionary 593 ToXSeek 590 HazMap 402 Consumer Health and Patient Education 473 Mesh Search Swedish-English 522 UpToDate 110 NLM ALL Search 174 NLM Gateway 22 (New) Search ALL EAHIL Websites 20 (new) SEE ALL MY Netvibes WIDGETS: http://eco.netvibes.com/users/9148

Slide 30: Creating widgets – Eco.netvibes.com – Widgetbox.com – OpenSocial

Slide 33: From Widgets To Social Networks …. anywhere • Social Networks • Websites, intranet,blogs • Personal start pages • embed and install options

Slide 35: From Widgets to Personal Start Page Tools • Netvibes, iGoogle or Pageflakes or… • Our Choice: Netvibes www.netvibes.com

Slide 36: 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

Slide 38: WWW.NETVIBES.COM/EAHIL2008

Slide 39: PennTags & PennPortal • http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ • http:// www.library.upenn.edu/

Slide 40: “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…

Slide 41: 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”

Slide 42: 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

Slide 43: “To boldly go where your users have gone before”