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Knowledge, Library & Information Services
for Health
How to develop and use an
information portal
Natalie King & Janet Sampson
Knowledge, Library & Information Services
for Health
Do you think web 2.0 technologies
like Netvibes, etc
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Have little potential for NHS libraries (1)
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Have great potential for NHS Libraries but will only appeal
to more technically literate customers (2)
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Have great potential and will appeal to most customers (3)
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Why a portal?
Attended a Web 2.0 Workshop held by SCHARR in
June 2009
Examined use of wikis, blogs, portals, etc
We decided to come away and develop our own
information portal
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What is a portal?
 A portal provides a central place to present information from
diverse sources in a unified way
 Simplifies information gathering
 Customised to suit your needs
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Why create a library portal?
 Tailored current awareness service
 RSS feeds
 Subject areas
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Promotes local resources
 Trust guidelines, publications, etc
 Availability
 Remote access to evidence based resources
 Simplified information gathering from a variety of
resources
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Why create a library portal?
 Can use multimedia applications (text, images, film)
 Saves time for the end user
 Excellent way to promote your services at same time
 24 hour access
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How does a portal help you?
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Single point of reference
Avoids duplication
Easy to create and change
Snapshot of resources in specialist areas
Feeds are automatically updated
Promotes new resources and publications
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What’s the catch?
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SLOW on N3 network PCs
Broken links and feeds
Not completely automated
Always more to add
Applicability of content (UK vs US)
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Information Overload?
Then let a portal help you out!
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Using Netvibes as your portal
 We chose Netvibes
 Free
 Accepted use through our Trust firewall/security
 Easy to use
 Web based e-mail address required when setting up
your account
 No login required for users
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Key Features
Trust Information
 E.g. Notices; Guidelines; Manuals
 Only available when using on Trust network
National & International Resources
 NHS Evidence, Specialist Collections, Web sites,
Royal Colleges, Societies, Special events
 Professional and Patient-related sites
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Key Features
Journals
 RSS feeds
 Browse content at own convenience
Books
 Latest editions added to the library
 Variety of ways available on how to link these to your
catalogue
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How we use it?
Private pages
 This is where we do all our developmental and initial
editing work
 Widgets: RSS feeds; web pages; web notes
 Remember to back up your work, text and links
Public pages
 Published content
 Still have facility to edit and/or remove content
 Ability to share content from other Netvibes portals
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http://www.netvibes.com/dbhlibrary
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 Promotes works published by Trust staff
 Signpost to Athens registration
 Don’t forget your disclaimer on your Home page
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Subject Tab: Renal Medicine
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Web & RSS Feeds
Professional & Patient Sites
Journal feeds to a variety
of journals
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National links
Evidence based
resources
Books & Journals
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Private page for developmental work
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Contacts
Natalie King
Clinical Effectiveness Information Specialist
[email protected]
Janet Sampson
Knowledge & Resources Librarian
[email protected]