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Three new handhelds announced - one palm model
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Hotsync to This Site! PDAs Playing in Peoria Libraries to the Point of Care!

Hotsync to This Site: PDAs Playing in Peoria Libraries To the Point of Care!

PDAs are playing in Peoria libraries to the point of care in two Peoria, Illinois medical libraries, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria. A website for the LSTA grant project, funded by the Illinois State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, has been launched at http://pdagrant.osfsaintfrancis.org. The website contains information about the project and links to resources on handheld computing for librarians and medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and other personnel. The website is one of many activities which are part of the project to provide critical knowledge-based resources at the point of care or patient bedside through the use of handheld computing technology. In addition to loaning handheld computers with medical resources on them, the libraries are providing access to electronic books, interactive databases such as ovid@hand, training, and technical support to medical professionals. The libraries will also host a conference on pdas for librarians scheduled for June 7, 2002 featuring Mari Stoddard of Arizona Health Sciences Library as the keynote speaker. For further information, hotsync to the site or contact Carol Galganski, Project Director at carol.galganski@osfhealthcare.org, (309)655-2268, or Lori Bell, lori.bell@osfhealthcare.org, (309)655-2269.

Congratulationst o Matthew Eberle!

Congratulationst to Matthew Eberle for getting up the RSS
newsfeed!

Thanks! Let me know how you like the features!

Hello! Thanks to Peter Scott and Matthew Eberle for mentioning the new features
on the Handheld Librarian! Several people have also emailed that they have successfully
added HHL as an avantgo channel. Soon, blogger pro will have the ability for people
subscribed to post to this via e-mail which will be really great! Congratulations to Peter
Scott for getting up an RSS feed! That is something I want to learn more about!

New Avantgo channel and Yahoo users group

Hello. We are now trying blogger pro. You can sign up for a yahoogroup where you
can get all postings by email if you want. This is a test. We have also set up easy
directions if you want to make this an avantgo channel. Please email me
Lori Bellif these do not work. Thanks.

The Shifted Librarian Don't tell me these kids aren't going to grow up using their [portable] phones to pull in information. Jenny discusses a fast approaching reality.

Unbound Medicine and McGraw-Hill announced they are partnering to
create Harrison's On Hand. Harrison's On Hand will provide physicians access to knowledge management tools
Harrison's Manual of Medicine, Harrison's Online Updates, and Lexi-Comp's Drug Information on handheld devices.
From the press release, it looks like these will be interactive web/handheld tools similar to ovid@hand which is
also working on the Unbound Medicine platform. It will be interesting to see how other content vendors provide interactivity
for the user with a handheld and web access.

Handhelds and Libraries Recent article by Stephen Arnold, author of a few library technology books as well. Exerpts on his website.

PSS - Pocket Software Solutions - BookStuff Gold This Palm program allows you to keep track of quotes and bibliography information according to the Harvard Citation Method and then export them to your PC.

Medical Library Association: PDA Teleconference Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care - A Feb 6 teleconference on PDA usage aimed at medical librarians.

Palm is releasing its new wireless model, the wireless 1705 a week early. Read more
from PC World.com

Check out The Shifted Librarian,
by Jenny Levine for some great late news on handhelds and her view of how these
need to fit into libraries! She has posted a great story on pdas and cell phones, e-ink and e-books,
voice-enabled pdas and more. This blog is an every day read for me! You might want
to put it on your list too!

Take a look at this review of the
new IPAQ by a doctor, and his comparison of Windows CE/Pocket PCs to Palm OS/Palms.

Take a look at this great article on handhelds
in the health science library by Mary Peterson published on Half Pint.

Hello, this is Lori Bell. This is an experiment to try to combine technologies
and see if this is an effective way to share information and create content
for the handheld. Thanks.

Contributers are needed! If you would like to post sites, news of interest,
current news of handhelds that would be of interest to librarians, send a
message to Handheld Librarian, and I will
send you a message so that you can post to this site! Thanks!

Welcome to the Handheld Librarian - creating content for librarians on the handheld via
instant web publishing through blogger technology. Need instructions for setting this
website up as one of your avantgo channels so you can read this instead of the New
York Times or Drink Boy? If so, email
Handheld Librarian.