2007 Top Technology Trends for Medical Libraries MLA 2007 Philadelphia May 21, 2007

Perpetual Beta (http://perpetualbeta.com/ ) Google Video (http://video.google.com/ ) Yahoo Mail Beta (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/ ) Windows Live Hotmail (http://get.live.com/mail/features ) Mobile / Wireless Technologies (http://www.vocera.com/ ) ( http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6160839-2.html?tag=ne.gall.pg ) ( http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197007535 ) Podcasting Lecture casting http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes_u.html Google Applications ( https://www.google.com/a/ ) http://www.dent.umich.edu/itunes/ Other office productivity applications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_spreadsheets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors#Online_Word_Processors Mobile/Wireless Computing and Communication in the Clinical Setting –Increase in PDA use, double b/w 2001 -2006 Lecture Casting - podcasts of lectures, speeches, and other campus audiovisual materials. University of Michigan School of Dentistry & UCSF -School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry Online Google Office Software - email, calendaring, word processing, spreadsheets, and instant messaging

Tagging: Flickr Del.ic.ious Library Thing Technorati http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ Del.ic.ious http://del.icio.us/tag/ Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/tagcloud.php Technorati http://technorati.com/tag/ Tagging, also known as folksonomies, is a user-generated taxonomy often employed in Web 2.0 products like Flickr, del.icio.us, and blogs. Tagging is a potentially controversial topic for librarians because it involves a form of self-cataloging that does not use controlled vocabulary. Internet users may discover an entry (photo, citation, blog entry) and then follow the tag descriptors to retrieve additional entries with the same tag. Librarians will find this concept familiar in how they use MeSH Subject Headings to retrieve results from different information discovery systems.

Mashing up the Library http://www.talis.com/tdn/competition OPAC 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/projects/evergreen/ http://gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200659.htm http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/worldcatlocal/what.html Mashups Wall of Books http://www.superpatron.com/wall-of-books/aadl/aadl-fiction-20060322.html Mashing up the Library http://www.talis.com/tdn/competition Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ LibrarianinBlack Yahoo Pipes Tutoral http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/02/10/yahoo-pipes/ HEALTHmap http://www.healthmap.org/ OPAC 2.0 – Open source. Evergreen is an open source ILS developed by the Georgia Public Library Service. Mashups - In a mashup, two different and distinct sources of data are mixed to create a third. Mashups have become easier after the growing prevalence of technologies such as RSS. In medical libraries, where publishers and content owners often protect their data, it has been difficult to create mashups that are relevant to library patrons. However, there are examples of library mashups that show the potential uses of this technology. Superpatron's Ed Vielmetti's wall of books, for example, pulls and links book covers to catalog information from the Ann Arbor District Library. OCLC held its first ever Mashing up the Library competition in 2006, challenging libraries to create their own mashups. At this point, mashups generally require some degree of programming knowledge. But tools such as Yahoo Pipes are now being developed to make it easier for non-technical people to create mashups on their own.

Librarian use Secondlife http://secondlife.com/ http://sllibrarians.ning.com/ http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Second_Life.html http://infoisland.org/health_info/ http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/mla/mla2.avi http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=secondlife http://secondlife.com/showcase/trailercontest_2006.php Librarian use Secondlife As an instructional tool Virtual reference Second life is an Internet-based virtual world developed by Linden Lab Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items (including virtual property) and services from one another Among the more active educators in Second Life are librarians. There are numerous libraries within what is referred to as the Info Islands. Virtual reference desks within Second Life are staffed by real life volunteer librarians for many hours every week. They also teach workshops there to help librarians and educators learn more about Second Life The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the Universty of Illinois Urbana-Champaign offers continuing education courses on virtual world librarianship

InfoButton http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/integrating.php http://www.micromedex.com/products/infobutton/ http://www.ovid.com/site/products/tools/ovid/ClinicalResource.jsp http://pier.acponline.org/info/pierinf_integration.html http://www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com/products.html Learning 2.0 Blogs Flickr Odeo YouTube PBWiki Bloglines PLCMC Learning 2.0 (http://plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/) InfoButton - Integrating Reference Information into the Electronic Health Record: Practice and Standards well known Information Tool vendors are actively pursuing use of the InfoButton and as your organizations are selecting and implementing EMR systems one of the considerations they should make is what vendors are compatible with the selected EMR and what content the clinicians will be needing/wanting Learning 2.0 - inspiring library staff at all levels to learn and innovate using Web 2.0 technologies. set up a series of tasks using free Internet technologies and devised a sequence and schedule to help all staff progress through 23 selected technologies that her library's customers and employees had inquired about.