1. 2007 Top Technology Trends for Medical Libraries
MLA 2007
Philadelphia
May 21, 2007

2. Perpetual Beta (http://perpetualbeta.com/ )
Google Video ( )
Yahoo Mail Beta ( )
Windows Live Hotmail ( )
Mobile / Wireless Technologies ( )
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Podcasting
Lecture casting
Google Applications ( )
Other office productivity applications:
Mobile/Wireless Computing and Communication in the Clinical Setting –Increase in PDA use, double b/w
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 - , calendaring, word processing, spreadsheets, and instant messaging

3. Tagging: Flickr Del.ic.ious Library Thing Technorati
Del.ic.ious
Library Thing
Technorati
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.

4. Mashing up the Library http://www.talis.com/tdn/competition
OPAC 2.0
Mashups
Wall of Books
Mashing up the Library
Yahoo Pipes
LibrarianinBlack Yahoo Pipes Tutoral
HEALTHmap
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.

5. Librarian use Secondlife
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

6. InfoButton
Learning 2.0
Blogs Flickr Odeo YouTube PBWiki Bloglines
PLCMC Learning 2.0 (
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 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.