Some Excellent PDA sites Recommended from Lewis Armstrong

Here are some excellent PDA sites recommended by one of our list members, Lewis Armstrong. Thanks, Lewis! If you have sites you think would be helpful to others email me at lbell927@yahoo.com and I will blog them. If you would like to blog them and be a participating blogger of Handheld Librarian, let me know and I will send you an invitation. This is a collaborative blog and anyone interested in PDAs is welcome to blog information!


http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/ - PDAs for Health Providers

http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/pdabibliography.html
PDA Bibliography - VCU Libraries

http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=180 - Medical College of Wisconsin PDA Information page

Evaluation of Handheld Medical Content - Feedback Wanted

In the spring of 2004, University of Toronto student Christine Arkell completed a review of the current literature on evaluation of handheld medical content, as part of a practicum project supervised by the Gerstein
Science Information Centre. To the best of my knowledge this was the first review paper on the (scant) literature on this topic.

With Christine's permission, the library has posted the paper with the intention of getting feedback and suggestions from interested researchers. Her intent is to enhance the paper prior to publication submission later this summer. I'd be grateful if you could circulate this information
to anyone you know in your institution who is interested in the evaluation of handheld medical content so that they could provide feedback.

The link to the paper is:

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/gerstein/pda/handheldmedcontent.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/2bysj

Feedback can be directed to twinkle_toes@sympatico.ca

Thank you!

Rita Vine

May ebookworm

Ebookworm - Join us for ebookworm on May 20, 2004 from
3:00 to 4:00 Central Time. Program moderator Tom
Peters will discuss ebooks with Jon Noring, an ebook
publisher, technologist, advocate, and standards
developer. He is the founder and moderator of The
eBook Community, the Internet's oldest, largest, and
most respected general ebook forum. To attend, go to
http://www.talkingcommunities.com/entrance.pl?LIB-Auditorium&nopass_field=1,
type your name and click enter. A small software
applet will download to your computer and then you
will enter the room. You need a pc microphone to
participate via audio, but you can also participate
via text chat. All you need are an Internet connection
and sound card.

Audio Ebook Expo - Talking Book Readers Invited!
Sign up at http://www.mitbc.org/audioebookexpo.htm
The Alliance Library System and the Mid-Illinois
Talking Book Center are pleased to announce an
exciting event – “Audio E-Book Expo: Exploring Digital
Books and Content” on Friday, October 29 at Alliance
Library System East Peoria. Put this date on your
calendar to join us as we explore where the library
field has been and where it is going in the area of
audiobooks for everyone – adults, children, the
visually impaired, the learning disabled, and more.
Experts will share the latest in web-based ebook
management systems, handheld players, and
collaborative projects. Key-note speakers include: Tom
Peters of TAP Information Systems, Steve Potash, CEO
of Overdrive, Inc., and Jenny Levine, “the Shifted
Librarian”,Suburban Library System. Other speakers
include Jane Chamberlain, Adult Services Manager at
Bloomington Public Library, Lori Bell, Mid-Illinois
Talking Book Center, Sharon Ruda, Illinois State
Library Talking Book and Braille Service, and Diana
Sussman of Southern Illinois Talking Book Center.
There will also be time for exhibits and ideas! Cost
for the day is only $25.00 which includes lunch. For
more information, contact Lori Bell at the
Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center, at (309)694-9200,
ext. 2128 or lbell@alliancelibrarysystem.com.