Implementing Web 2.0 tools into health library practice and outreach

Implementing Web 2.0 tools into health library practice and outreach

Social software in UBC Physio Outreach

By Eugene Barsky, Simon Neame, and Rebecca B. TunnacliffePresented at the CHLA Conference on May 31, 2007

[email protected]

http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/

Goals of this session

Introduce social software to health librarians

Provide personal experiences

Engage Canadian health librarians in dialogue and debate on utilizing social software in daily practice

Physio outreach project – whom do we serve?

We serve 1,700 practicing physiotherapists in BC

The challenge is to serve diverse information needs of practicing health professionals: clinical and research

Social tools to be covered…

Blogs

RSS feeds

Podcasting / Audiocasting

Instant messaging

Wikis

** For more social software in health libraries, see Guistini & Barsky CE class

on social software (2007) >> http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca

What is blog?

A frequent, chronological, and personalized publication of web content

Pros of blogs: No need to know html coding No need to find server space Usually free Allow interactivity and sharing

How we use a blog?

UBC Physio Info-blog is the central communication tool for the physio outreach librarian (http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/): Workshops Audiocasts Tutorials New services and tools, etc.

What is RSS?

Pushed vs. pulled content from blogs and websites

Instead of you going to check for new info – the info comes

to you

How we use RSS feeds?

Physio Blog RSS feed

Mix RSS from medical databases (PubMed and CINAHL) -

http://www.feeddigest.com/

RSS feed mixing for Health & Science info (CBC, BBC, NYT,

IHT)

How we use RSS feeds?

Feed to JavaScript - http://feed2js.org/

What is podcasting?

Audio files, thrown on RSS feed

Download themselves to the subscribers’ machines

Average size of recording into mp3 is 1MB for one minute

Because of the file sizes (50-60MB), we also use audiocasting – no automatic downloads

Don’t need iPod

How we use podcasting?

Record local rehabilitation sciences workshops and seminars [http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/podcasts/]

Support UBC Physio School systematic reviews course by recording students’ presentations

Store and preserve the content on UBC institutional repository [https://dspace.library.ubc.ca]

We use Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – free open source software (can run from USB memory)

How we use podcasting?

What is Instant Messaging (IM)?

A system which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network

Very popular with NextGens

How we use IM:

An IM gadget (MeeboMe) is installed on the blog

Personalization with a photo

Found to be pretty popular

Messages are private

What is wiki?

An online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org

Medicine - http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ (by David Rothman)

How we use wiki?

Create and share new health information for health librarians - UBC HealthLib-Wiki - http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca

Questions?

** photo credit - nikalway

Contact info

Eugene Barsky, MLISPhysiotherapy Outreach LibrarianIrving K. Barber Learning CentreUniversity of British ColumbiaPhone: (604) 827-4088Fax: (604) 822-9122Email: [email protected] MSN/Meebo: [email protected] Blog: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/ Web: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/

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