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“Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians” – new article in JCHLA

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Published just a few hours ago, here is a new article by Dean Giustini and yours truly, this time about using wikis in health sciences:

Barsky E, Giustini D. Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 2007 28(4): 147-150

Being a proponent of open-access publishing, I have to say that this journal is open access and you can view our article for free!

It was a great privilege and fun working with Dean – a super experienced health librarian who is also a mentor and a good friend. I have to admit that thanks to him – this is one of our best articles in the series so far!

It continues the series of articles I co-write with other medical librarians about using social software in health sciences:

1. Barsky E., & Cho A. Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians. 2007. JCHLA , 28 (2), 59-61

2. Barsky E., & Purdon M. “Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking”. 2006 JCHLA , 27 (3), 65-67

3. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: Webloging and podcasting for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA , 27 (2), 33-34

4. Barsky E. “Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians”. 2006. JCHLA, 27 (1), 7-8.

5. Giustini D, & Barsky E. “A look at Google Scholar, PubMed and Scirus: comparisons and recommendations”. 2005. JCHLA, 26 (3), 85-89.

Have fun reading!!

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Web 2.0 in health – a practical overview

Today, I presented two 1.5 hours workshops for the British Columbia Ministry of Health and British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development on Web 2.0 in health.

Here is my presentation in PDF format. Below is my presentation embedded in this post.

We had good discussions and brainstorming at the end of the sessions with the ministries folks on how those social technologies could be used in their everyday work and how they might impact their professional and personal lives.

I enjoyed the audience and found folks working in the ministries to be engaging and innovative.

Many thanks to my colleagues and friends whose work and ideas contributed to this presentation: Dean Giustini, Sally Taylor, Lindsay Ure, Katherine Miller, Susan Atkey, Sheryl Adam, David Rothman, Simon Neame, and many others! Please also note the reference list at the end of presentation for further follow-up.

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Social technology in health library practice and outreach >> Presentation for Vancouver Coastal Health

On Monday I did a presentation (this is just that time of year when lots of institutions have time to learn and to start new initiatives, so I cannot stop preaching various outreach for libraries 🙂 for Vancouver Coastal Health folks – one of the largest health authorities in Canada on the use of social technology in library outreach.

It was interesting to me to see the differences between the application of those tools in academia (where I am employed) and in hospitals…

Take a look on the presentation in PDF format or see it embedded below:

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New workshop – “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals”

Still in Okanagan, I am in Penticton today, teaching another workshop for the area physios – I am very excited to be here, love the sun 🙂

Yesterday, I offered a new 1/2 hour workshop – “Staying up-to-date with your practice – current awareness for health professionals” for the first time. It was nicely received by the OK physios.

Take a look yourself. Here is the PDF (400KB) for the workshop. Or below is the embedded powerpoint.

Have a sunny afternoon!

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New article published – Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians

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The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA) has published another article of yours truly, this time co-authored with enthusiastic Allan Cho. The article tries to cover the phenomenon of social search in health context. Please take a look – it is free open access:

Introducing Web 2.0: social search for health librarians

The article continues the series of Web 2.0 coverage in health that I co-author with other health librarians:

* Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-001.pdf

* Introducing Web 2.0: weblogs and podcasting for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-013.pdf

* Introducing Web 2.0: social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians >> http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla27/c06-024.pdf

The next article will cover one of the most controversial topics in social technology – wikis!

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Implementing Web 2.0 tools into health library practice and outreach

I just finished presenting a paper for the Canadian health librarians at the CHLA annual conference 2007.

There has been lots of interest for the topic indeed.

Take a look on my presentation slides (we actually showed this stuff live, but the powerpoint will give you the sense of what was there).

For more info , take a look on Dean Giustini and mine session on the same topic on our wiki

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CHLA/ABSC Continuing Education(CE) Course – Social software in health libraries

On Monday, May 28th, Dean Giustini and I have presented a 3.5 hours workshop for the Canadian health librarians on using social software in health libraries.

We have a wiki with the full topic coverage here.

Moreover, here is our short powerpoint (note to RSS readers – this is an embedded PPT)

Our sense was that the workshop was useful and was well received by the librarians in the audience. We will also receive an official feedback soon 🙂

My paper on Web 2.0 tools in health library practice and outreach is to be presented tomorrow as well…

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Introduction to Advanced Internet Searching workshop

* For those of you reading this via an online reader – there is a powerpoint embedded in this post :), click on the post to see it all.

Yesterday, I presented this workshop for the UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies folks. It was quite an interesting session with people accross numerious disciplines attending.

We have had fun – I hope – playing with various Google commands and learning more about search.

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Presentation on Weblogging in UBC

Yesterday, I was one of the panelists at the latest UBC webloggers salon, which was very interesting indeed with profs from Education and Latin American Studies departments dealing with interesting angles of blogging. I was stuck with the technicalities – as usual 🙂

Here is my presentation I did for the UBC audience.

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Wiking in your library: a practical overview

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Today, I did a presentation for the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (VALL) folks in Vancouver.

We discussed the use of Wikis in the libraries. I uploaded the PDF version of the presentation here.

I included different examples of Wikis use in the libraries and private companies, and in a nutshell, my verdict was:

1. Wiki is an excellent tool for internal projects collaboration, internal brainstorming and ideas sharing
2. For external projects try an online social software
3. Wiki is questionable for legal research, however might be of use to find unusual or anecdotal information

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