MLA Satellite Teleconference

The MLA Satellite Teleconference "Sync or Swim: Managing the Flood of PDAs in Health Care" was
broadcast today. What an excellent program! Congratulations and thanks to MLA and all the speakers including Mari Stoddard, Todd Grappone, Peggy Baldwin, Jean Shipman, Connie Schardt, Matthew Johnson, Johannes Boehm, and Gabriel Rios! The program was high quality and covered a great deal of valuable information. Here are a couple library websites on pdas to try out:
Stanford Palm Project, PDAs for Health Care Providers from the Arizona Health Health Sciences Library. MLA is also hosting an e-mail list for the discussion of pdas. To subscribe send a message to majordomo@mlahq.org. Type the message subscribe mla-pda. Leave the subject line blank. Thanks again to MLA and all the wonderful speakers!

Palm announces new e-book reading software!

Hello! Palm has announced new e-book reading software, the Palm Reader Pro. It now includes Webster's New World Vest Pocket Dictionary and the ability to utilize any Palm standard bitmapped font. You can also add a feature with more font types and sizes for a little additional money. Palm is an interesting oasis in a seemingly e-book device desert with their rising sales of ebooks, etc.

Much Riding on Palm's New OS
"...releasing a preview to score deals with companies, such as cell phone manufacturers"
On Wired News via NewsIsFree

Does Palm have 2 new devices in the wings?

Does Palm have 2 new devices in the wings?

Philips and TDK do Bluetooth for iPaq Bluetooth may provide some limited uses for wireless access in library environments. Definitely worth some further research.
On PDA Buzz via NewsIsFree

Palm marketshare drops in 2001, Pocket PC gaining No real surprise here.
On PDA Buzz via NewsIsFree

pda news/free e-book economy

Slow but Sure Enterprise Adoption for PDAs ITworld.com Corporate IT departments are slowly adopting pdas.

A survey of 3000 people reveals that people are willing to read e-books on a variety of platforms; they just don't want to pay for them.

Have a great weekend!

News

Three new handhelds announced - one palm model
and 2 Sony models

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.