Random thoughts on Searching, the Web and Learning

Being in the moment…. Sometimes, that’s what blogging is about.

For the past ten months, I’ve been more in the moment with blogging as time out of my day has been spent responding to things, changes in search environments and my own insights into learning. Biblio-blogging (blogging by librarians) can sometimes be about specific things in our work, such as information dissemination, outreach and learning but it can also be about finding a place for reflection, and taking a minute to step back from it all. I’ve come to really appreciate the luxury.

Search – and how it affects medicine, physicians and their decision-making – is a fascinating area to think and blog about; I’ll likely never tire of it. I am already working on my next concept piece for the British Medical Journal about changes in the information landscape of 2007. Its publication will mark a return to my work as a hospital librarian, and medical librarian, something that I value more now.

Will I continue to blog about teaching and learning? About educational technologies? Adult learning theories as they apply to my work in information literacy? Yes, but with renewed vigour and interest in my work with physicians and health workers at Vancouver Hospital. I’ll return there in early January 2008.

In the interim, notice that I’ll be blogging too at Open Medicine about other medical topics. Visit me there sometime, if you have a moment.