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Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:39
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Emerging technologies and tools

Exploration of relevant user environments, the use of new web-based technologies with Web 2.0 elements and a more structural, technical re-design of library information systems, is needed to deliver library services and resources at the place of need.
In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks, semantic search techniques, mobile and online personal tools, will be dictating how users will look and search for information.

The future success of medical libraries depends on the level of understanding and embracing the relevant emerging technologies.

This course will look at Web 2.0 and beyond: the mobile library, virtualization, mash-ups, collaborative tools, social networks & new search technologies. A part of the course will focus on the issue of the accessibility of new technologies within your organisation.

Guus van den Brekel
Biography
Guus van den Brekel is Coordinator Electronic Services of the Central Medical Library of the academic teaching hospital University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands.
He is a Medical Information Specialist as well as IT coordinator and responsible for Library Services Development and Innovation. Developing and delivering library services in the users workflow is his main focus. In workshops and presentations he delivers a strong plea for a focus-shift for librarians, a focus on the environments "where the users are", instead of expecting them to come to us.
The development of -and systematically offering- of "Library widgets" to users plus a Netvibes Universe for educational and instructional purpose is his latest project. More information about Guus can be found at his personal blog called DIGICMB.

 
 

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