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Well, I was pretty hard on Dean Giustini’s BMJ Editorial.
I have believed in the value of the dialectical process since long before I knew there was a term for it and have always believed that honest criticism serves the criticized, the critic, and those witnessing the process.
So I LOVE that Dean decided to […]

I was asked recently in an interview:
“You’ve written quite a bit about Web 2.0 tools and medical librarianship […snip…] Are there ways in which you see health sciences librarianship 2.0 as differing from Library 2.0?”
I answered that I’m actually not all that fond of the the “2.0″ suffix, whether it is applied to “Web,” “Library,” […]

Last post of 2007. Really.
A survey was undertaken in 2007 in the US by the MLA Social Networking Software Task Force investigating use of collaborative/social networking tools and services. Results from the original survey of MLA members are reported at the Task Force on Social Networking Software blog.
Libraries Using Evidence - eblip.net.au […]

I’ve never been fortunate enough to see Meredith Farkas speak- but thanks to UC Berkeley, now I can! Below, Meredith’s talk from 11/2/2007 at the Academic Library 2.0 Conference.

(Above: Embdedded flash video. If you’re reading this in your agregator, you may need to visit the site to view the video)
(Meredith starts speaking about […]

Presentation slides worth flipping through:
Eugene Barsky (who has recently been recognized for his work as an outreach physiotherapy librarian) posted slides from his presentation to the BC Ministry of Health and Ministry of Children and Family Development, providing a nice overview of how free Web tools are (or might be) used in healthcare.

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This looks like another article that I want to read but don’t have access to.
Ophthalmology. 2007 Oct;114(10):1801-3.
Web 2.0, library 2.0, physician learning 2.0.Liesegang TJ.
PMID: 17908589
(This blog would be a lot better if publishers would just give me free subscriptions- or at least send me copies of articles like this one. I know- it’d be […]

[Update: As Nikki points out, it is cheaper to buy via Amazon.com and should be available around October 26th.]

As previously mentioned, Alexia Estabrook and I wrote the chapter on RSS. Alexia rocks.
More information and the order form are available here.
I wonder when I’ll get my copy. Haworth’s site says it is supposed to […]

I’ve mentioned previously that Mayo Libraries are doing a Learning 2.0 program. One of the participants, Mark Wentz, recently wrote The Ballad of Mayo Libraries 2.0 and has kindly allowed me to post it here. Love it!

(To the melody of Paul Henning’s “The Ballad of Jed Clampett.”)
Come learn about Libraries 2.0
Chock full of […]

Still catching up and discovering neat stuff in my aggregator from my time off last week, including this interview with T. Scott Plutchak at DegreeTutor.com.
Excerpt:

Do you see academic medical libraries being a vanguard to other libraries and their adoptions of technology?
Yes and no. Yes in that I think that there are a lot of […]

Just got back to NY and am starting the long process of catching up on email and reading. If you’ve written in the last week, please forgive the delay and know that I’ll get back to you in the next few days. There will be very light posting this week while I catch […]

So I get to give a talk next week at the Mayo Clinic in (Rochester, MN) as a part of Mayo Libraries 2.0.
I’ve been working on my notes and I think I’ve got everything covered that I need to, but I’m wondering if perhaps you have any thoughts to share?
F’rinstance:

What do you think are the […]

Now available for order from Haworth Press:
Medical Librarian 2.0: Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Reference Services
Edited by M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, AHIP, FMLA
Interesting, I think, that the experts sought out to write about Web technologies are disproportionately bloggers and/or people you’ve read about online.
Alexia Estabrook and I co-authored the chapter on RSS. […]

Update: Wow!ter is absolutely right- his variation is better.
Query: +(CIL2007 “CIL 2007″ “computers in libraries”)
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Its great that so many bibliobloggers are posting about Computers in Libraries 2007, but it can be a lot to keep up with. An easy way to keep up with all the posts is to use LibWorm […]

I somehow missed this a few weeks ago:

I admit to having special fondness for slide #19.
This gets me thinking about how I’d present the ideas of Web/Library 2.0 to medical librarians. I think my structure and focus would be quite different. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’ll have to map […]

I’m not the first to blog about these and I certainly won’t be the last, but I wanted to say a few brief “me too’s”:
I’m going to order Social Software in Libraries…

…and not just because Meredith mentions LibWorm in Chapter Three, either! I’m going to order it because Meredith’s writings on […]

Web 2.0 in Libraries: Theory and Practice
SLA Click University Live
From 1/10/2007

Web 2.0 in Libraries: The Tools of Web 2.0
SLA Click University Live
From 1/24/2007

Other presentations Meredith has uploaded to SlideShare

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Presentation from Brian Kelly. Slide #25 (titled “The Librarian Fundamentalists“) is especially interesting.

If you find this interesting, you might like to see this other presentation of Brian’s.

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There’s lots of interesting content in this latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, but I’m especially intrigued by Guus van den Brekel’s article on The Changing of the User Environment (tenth PDF page, numbered page eight).
I only gave it the one quick read, but that was enough […]

Amanda Etches-Johnson recently posted about the presentation that she gave on “Heath Library 2.0″ at the OLA Superconference at the invitation of the OHLA, and included a link to a PDF of her presentation slides.
She made great choices about what tools and technologies to highlight and how.
Amanda also says very nice things about me that […]

1. David Lee King has a great post from ALA Midwinter 2007 on Raising the Next-Gen Resource Sharing Librarian with insights from Mary Hollerich (National Library of Medicine), Audrey Huff (Northwestern University School of Law), Michael Porter (WebJunction), and Michael Stephens (Dominican University). All good stuff that I want to keep in mind […]