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Using Web 2.0 for health libraries –
an update
Paula Younger
12 June 2013
A rose by any other name..
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The Participatory Web
The Social Web
Web 3.0 (well, almost)
Web 3D? (Mainly engineering focused at
present) Printing slow & clunky now – likely
to revolutionise many aspects of our lives
The Semantic Web –way beyond hyperlinks:
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Progress since 2010...
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Much more participatory
Twitter has really taken off
Facebook & Amazon are now terrifyingly
targeted (Minority Report, anyone?!)
The rise and rise of the iPad, iPhone and Ice
Cream Sandwiches
Convergence
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Smartphones and other tablet devices much
more widespread than they were
Texting and mobile phone technology now
embedded in daily life
Even the BNF has its own mobile app now
and there are many others
“Always on” – users need to learn to be more
selective. Which is where libraries and
information management units come in.
The Lego approach
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Just because you bought the box that makes
the Egyptian Temple with the mummies
doesn’t mean you can’t make other things
out of it too....
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(After a concept from Paul Miller,
Technology Evangelist, http://
www.connex-network.org/?p=102)
Synergy - the sum is greater than the
total of the parts
What’s everybody else doing?
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http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspg
grp/imperialcollege/administration/library/new
ssummary/news_9-5-2013-9-52-15
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/web20_reso
urces.html
Our particular problem: Web 2.0
for Current Awareness
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How it began – current awareness issue in
the south west. Not enough library staff/time
– lots of users interested in current
awareness
Looked at lots of other examples, e.g.
Netvibes (Shrewsbury and other Trusts)
Set up task and finish group
Looked into possibility of Yahoo Pipes
Getting off the ground
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Traditional method, trawling through sources
& abstracting is very time consuming
Increasing pressure on staffing/budgets
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Why not use technology?
Web 2.0 technologies?
RSS feeds
Looked at several options including Netvibes
Piping Hot
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Yahoo Pipes – what it is
Quick demonstration of how we’re using it in
a subsection of the south west
(Avon/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire)
The “Master Pipe” concept
“Quick & dirty” approach – very collaborative
Each library “owns” a particular subject area
Not reinventing the wheel
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Borrowing other people’s pipes..”cloning”
RSS Aggregators
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Great. All aggregated. Now, what do we do
for those who don’t/can’t have RSS readers?
Lots of RSS aggregators out there that will
deliver content direct to a mailbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_f
eed_aggregators lists some
One colleague wanted daily, weekly or
monthly updates rather than daily only
Enter......The Chimp!
MailChimp
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Very customisable - you can include images,
weblinks, Twitter links, Facebook links and
much more
Free (within limits) – 12,000 messages per
month to 2,000 subscribers
“Push” technology approach rather than
“pull” – great for time-pressed medics and
managers!
Tips, tricks and pitfalls
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The importance of keywords/word stems
cannot be over-emphasised – mental health
posed a particular problem here e.g.
“mentalization”
Keep an eagle eye on RSS feeds on journal
pages/government website pages in
particular – as they change frequently
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http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/02/08/1
0-free-ways-to-keep-track-of-changes-to-anywebsite-without-rss/
Back to the Future
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Although it’s possible, we haven’t yet
managed to incorporate
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Turning any page into an RSS feed
Finding anything that will work on RCN/Nursing
Standard journals!
We can use TicTocs and similar but it’s a little hit
and miss
It doesn’t appear to be possible currently to easily
incorporate feeds from e.g. CINAHL although
Pubmed, for instance, works just fine
Particular NHS challenges
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Low levels of ICT literacy, in general
Lack of WiFi capability
NHS IT departments HATE cloud computing
They REALLY hate social media – yet NHS
Mail allows you to send text messages
directly and some Trusts even send out their
own Tweets
(They’d hate PortableApps even more –
introduced to these at UWE Gadget Day)
How will it affect us library-type
people?
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As deliverers and facilitators of information,
we’re going to have to get used to competing
with users incapable of switching off their
smartphones – multitasking comes of age
Much shorter attention spans – use of tools
like Prezi may be more useful in future
“Bite size” chunks
User expectations – everything constantly at
“beta” (Google Scholar, anyone?!)
Completely miscellaneous Web
2.0/3.0 developments
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Haptic arms
Pinterest; Storify
IFTT (“If This, Then That”
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Find many more at: www.go2web20.net
Webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com
C4lpt.co.uk/top100tools
http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/ind
ex.php/med/med2013 - future conference
Questions and contact details
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Paula Younger,
North Somerset Healthcare Library
Weston General Hospital, Weston-superMare BS23 4TQ
[email protected] after 22 July
2013