davidrothman.net » Presentations http://davidrothman.net Exploring Medical Librarianship and Web Geekery Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 “Information Overload” vs. “Filter Failure” http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/07/information-overload-vs-filter-failure/ http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/07/information-overload-vs-filter-failure/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:52:06 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=2938 on 1/10/2008, I wrote:

I’m sincerely flabbergasted to hear a librarian (or any information professional) complain that there is “too much data” or “too many RSS feeds.”

“Web 2.0″ doesn’t cause an information glut. What causes an information glut is being an information glutton, taking on more than anyone can reasonably manage. There aren’t too many RSS feeds. Rather, there are users who subscribe to too many RSS feeds. The solution isn’t for less data to exist, the solution is smarter, more selective use of the data. The tools that help us filter and manage the information that we care most about are continuing to improve in power and sophistication.

Nice to see Clay Shirky agree:

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It was lots of fun and a treat for me to get to leave Syracuse in January and gape at palm trees for a couple of days. :)

Refreshing Take on Technology Trends (MLGSCA/NCNMLG 2010)

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]]> http://davidrothman.net/2010/01/29/mlgscancnmlg-2010-slides-jm2010az/feed/ 3 CHLA-ABSC 2009 http://davidrothman.net/2009/06/09/chla-absc-2009/ http://davidrothman.net/2009/06/09/chla-absc-2009/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:10:09 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=2557 Thanks so much to Laurie Blanchard and everybody at CHLA for inviting me to speak! I enjoyed Winnipeg and it was a treat to finally meet people like Francesca Frati (who is awesome) and Mark Rabnett.

The slides for my talk (which look awful in Slideshare) are embedded below.

To clarify for Krista Clement:

I think anything that removes obstacles between users and the information they want is good. If more fully automating some functions of the library makes those functions less visible, I think that’s great. I don’t think that doing a better job for users will result in decreased funding, but I do think that better automation will cut costs.

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So cool. :)

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]]> http://davidrothman.net/2009/03/02/screencast-evernote-as-a-medical-students-peripheral-brain/feed/ 5 NYLA’s ‘Meet the Bloggers’ Panel (slides) http://davidrothman.net/2008/11/07/nylas-meet-the-bloggers-panel-slides/ http://davidrothman.net/2008/11/07/nylas-meet-the-bloggers-panel-slides/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:30:43 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=2167

Jill Hurst-Wahl’s slides are available here.

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Also: I’ll be on a panel at NYLA tomorrow (Friday, 11/6/2008) afternoon at 4:00 PM- please say hello if you’re going to be there! As usual at these sorts of things, I’ll know almost nobody. But hey- I might get to meet Polly Farrington!

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]]> http://davidrothman.net/2008/11/06/unyoc-ce-slides-and-nyla-tomorrow/feed/ 3 Screencasting and Podcasting: Experience of the Yale Medical Library http://davidrothman.net/2008/10/28/screencasting-and-podcasting-experience-of-the-yale-medical-library/ http://davidrothman.net/2008/10/28/screencasting-and-podcasting-experience-of-the-yale-medical-library/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:30:36 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=2149 Lei Wang’s slides from his presentation for the Connecticut Library Association on 10/24/2008:

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Any chance audio or video was recorded, Lauren?

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Online Social Networks in Healthcare & Libraries

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Posts from this blog about online social networks

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http://misearch.ncibi.org/

From MiSearch Help:

“MiSearch works with NCBI Entrez and your history of browsing to build a profile of your areas of interest, and uses this information to rank citations likely to be of most most information to you at the top of the list.”

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“MiSearch uses a classification algorithm based on MeSH term, substance names and author names associated with citations. Two sets are defined. One is the set of articles you have previously clicked on to view. The other is all of PubMed. For each citation in the retrieval set, the algorithm calculates the likelihood that the citation is a member of these two sets. Article having the highest likelihood of belonging to the set of articles you have viewed are ranked at the top of the list.

The “User” field is used as an identifier to track usage. If you do not provide a name, the IP address of your request will be used as a default. If you know you will be doing searches for different tasks with different subject areas, feel free to define a “User” for each task.”

Slides from an MLA 2008 presentation by NLM Associate Fellow Marisa Conte

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