Welcome to Tom Dennis, the new Handheld Librarian! I am already missing my blog, so I guess I will just have to start another one. Please email him at dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu with any suggestions for posts. I have appreciated all the emails I have received from all of you with great articles and tidbits! Thanks! In fact, here is information from David Bigwood on a paper you might be interested in.
"Thoughts on the Future of Library Computing: Implications of the Use
of
Handheld Computers for Library Service" Library Philosophy and Practice
Vol.
5, No. 1 (Fall 2002) http://www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/bridges.html
I just returned from the Illinois Library Association Conference where I attended a standing room only program done by Teri Ross Embrey of Chicago Library System; Tom Peters, CIC; and Jenny Levine, the Shifted Librarian, Suburban Library System called "From Pocket to Palm: Hostync yourself to the latest information on Libraries and PDAs". The program was great and very informative. I was surprised that we had probably 100 people, and not just techies. There were many administrators there. Congratulations on a great program, Tom, Teri and Jenny!
Best wishes and good luck to Tom Dennis, the new Handheld Librarian!
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Monday, September 23, 2002
Welcome to new blog owner, Tom Dennis!
Welcome to the new Handheld Librarian, Tom Dennis! Tom just started today as a new Medical Librarian at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Library & Resource Center.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
New free ebooks on Australian ebook page
Bruce Preston has given me permission to post this announcement here: "Australian e-book site www.e-book.com.au is proud to announce the
release of it's free e-book web page:
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
This page presents links to and information concerning a huge number
of e-books available free on the Web. In most cases
they can be read online in their HTML version, while many can also
be downloaded as files to read offline on PCs, laptops,
handheld devices (Palms, Handsprings, Pocket PCs, Psions etc) or on
dedicated e-reader devices.
This resource is now freely available for public use, & libraries
may link directly to it if desired. Further entries will be added
progressively, with the aim of making the page the best of its kind
on the Web over time. This new page is the first stage in
the expansion of this site to a broad Australian e-book information
& resources site.
Headings are as follows: Best free Digital Libraries - Australia;
Best free Digital Libraries - World;
Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English;
World - Other Languages,Regional and National; Individual
Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion
PS:The image at the top is copyright, being the new site logo as
designed by Patrick Andres of Sydney (there is also an
animated version yet to be released)."
release of it's free e-book web page:
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
This page presents links to and information concerning a huge number
of e-books available free on the Web. In most cases
they can be read online in their HTML version, while many can also
be downloaded as files to read offline on PCs, laptops,
handheld devices (Palms, Handsprings, Pocket PCs, Psions etc) or on
dedicated e-reader devices.
This resource is now freely available for public use, & libraries
may link directly to it if desired. Further entries will be added
progressively, with the aim of making the page the best of its kind
on the Web over time. This new page is the first stage in
the expansion of this site to a broad Australian e-book information
& resources site.
Headings are as follows: Best free Digital Libraries - Australia;
Best free Digital Libraries - World;
Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English;
World - Other Languages,Regional and National; Individual
Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion
PS:The image at the top is copyright, being the new site logo as
designed by Patrick Andres of Sydney (there is also an
animated version yet to be released)."
PDA version of PubMed and NLM pages available
Cate Canevari, Head of Education Services for the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University has given me permission to post this exciting information to the blog website. To those of you who subscribe to the list, apologies for cross posting:
"Dr. Paul Fontelo at the NIH is seeking feedback for
the PDA version of PubMed and NLM Web pages he has
developed. He is trying find out how useful accessing
PubMed using a PDA/handheld device can be, especially
in the clinical setting. He imagines that this would
be most useful for someone wanting to search PubMed or
clinicaltrials.gov in a clinical setting with wireless
access, but it also works in offline mode by
hotsyncing via serial/USB.
The link to the PDA search page:
http://certif.nlm.nih.gov:8080/PDAsearch/
The link to the NLM page is:
http://certif.nlm.nih.gov:8080/nlm/
After you sync/access the PDA search page, you should
get the "Feedback" link. Please complete the form and
submit. Send in any thoughts you have regarding the
general usefulness of this in the clinical setting as
well as possible enhancements that might be added
(such as limits, etc). If you are online, you should
get an acknowledgement right away. If you are offline
you will get the receipt after you sync. It will be in
"Forms Manager" for Palm OS users.
He is hoping to hear from people who try it and can
provide feedback. Please forward this message to
others who might be interested (PDA enhanced
clinicians, residents, nurses) with the caveat that
this is a test site and has not yet been announced to
the public. "
"Dr. Paul Fontelo at the NIH is seeking feedback for
the PDA version of PubMed and NLM Web pages he has
developed. He is trying find out how useful accessing
PubMed using a PDA/handheld device can be, especially
in the clinical setting. He imagines that this would
be most useful for someone wanting to search PubMed or
clinicaltrials.gov in a clinical setting with wireless
access, but it also works in offline mode by
hotsyncing via serial/USB.
The link to the PDA search page:
http://certif.nlm.nih.gov:8080/PDAsearch/
The link to the NLM page is:
http://certif.nlm.nih.gov:8080/nlm/
After you sync/access the PDA search page, you should
get the "Feedback" link. Please complete the form and
submit. Send in any thoughts you have regarding the
general usefulness of this in the clinical setting as
well as possible enhancements that might be added
(such as limits, etc). If you are online, you should
get an acknowledgement right away. If you are offline
you will get the receipt after you sync. It will be in
"Forms Manager" for Palm OS users.
He is hoping to hear from people who try it and can
provide feedback. Please forward this message to
others who might be interested (PDA enhanced
clinicians, residents, nurses) with the caveat that
this is a test site and has not yet been announced to
the public. "
Saturday, September 07, 2002
article abstract on PDAs and libraries
Tom Peters, Director of the Center for Library Initiatives for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and project evaluator for our PDA grant has done an excellent job of abstracting some valuable articles in the literature on PDAs and libraries. He has agreed to allow me to share the abstracts here. Over the next few days I will post some of these. Thanks, Tom!
Moore, Margaret Eileen; Garrison, Julie A. 2002. Mobile Technology
Forums.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly 21 (2) (Summer): 75-79.
The article reviews the success of in-person PDA forums held at the
Duke
Medical Center Library and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Health Sciences Library. Moore and Garrison (2002) look at the role
user
forums (which, compared to user groups, tend to focus on broader
issues) can
play in gaining insight into how PDAs and other mobile technologies can
affect end-users and libraries alike. Forums both respond to the
existing
needs of users--expressed by the users themselves--and enable
librarians to
assess the emerging needs and interests of their core PDA-user
population.
The authors note that user forums often form around hot new
technologies to
discuss critical issues, cool applications, solutions to common
problems,
and general social networking. Moore and Garrison (2002) note that
benefits
to the library include: learning more about user needs and preferences
regarding PDA-related information resources, services, and systems;
forming
and strengthening collaborative relationships with key individuals and
units
within the larger organization; highlighting existing and forthcoming
library resources and services related to PDAs; and articulating the
library's role in general in the PDA movement. Respondents to one
post-forum questionnaire indicated that they prefer sessions that are
focused, short, and informal. A vendor fair was being planned for
spring
2002. The authors conclude that these forums have helped position the
two
libraries as leaders in the PDA area.
Moore, Margaret Eileen; Garrison, Julie A. 2002. Mobile Technology
Forums.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly 21 (2) (Summer): 75-79.
The article reviews the success of in-person PDA forums held at the
Duke
Medical Center Library and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Health Sciences Library. Moore and Garrison (2002) look at the role
user
forums (which, compared to user groups, tend to focus on broader
issues) can
play in gaining insight into how PDAs and other mobile technologies can
affect end-users and libraries alike. Forums both respond to the
existing
needs of users--expressed by the users themselves--and enable
librarians to
assess the emerging needs and interests of their core PDA-user
population.
The authors note that user forums often form around hot new
technologies to
discuss critical issues, cool applications, solutions to common
problems,
and general social networking. Moore and Garrison (2002) note that
benefits
to the library include: learning more about user needs and preferences
regarding PDA-related information resources, services, and systems;
forming
and strengthening collaborative relationships with key individuals and
units
within the larger organization; highlighting existing and forthcoming
library resources and services related to PDAs; and articulating the
library's role in general in the PDA movement. Respondents to one
post-forum questionnaire indicated that they prefer sessions that are
focused, short, and informal. A vendor fair was being planned for
spring
2002. The authors conclude that these forums have helped position the
two
libraries as leaders in the PDA area.
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