See You At The Movies!: March 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Blogs and Wikis and Facebook, oh my!

Blogs are a series of periodic posts, listed by most recent, that are like an online "diary" on a topic. They are great for current perspectives on recent events, but since they can present
very personal viewpoints should be used with caution.

A wiki is a website that allows users to contribute content - Wikipedia is a well-known example of online collaboration - but different levels of collaboration can be assigned. For example, you may not want to let everyone edit the content on your wiki. It is easy to add, edit and link new content on a wiki, and you can track your changes.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Pub Med and Journal RSS Feeds; Value of RSS Feeds in the Library

RSS Feeds: PubMed and JAMA T of C

Depresssion and Treatment
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=depression%20and%20treatment

Fibromyalgia and Canadian Medical Association Journal
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=fibromyalgia%20and%20cmaj

Table of Contents - Journal of the American Medical Assocaition - Current Issue
http://jama.ama-assn.org/rss/current.xml

Value of RSS Feeds

RSS feeds could be used in the library as a current awareness tool. For example, if you wanted to be alerted to collection development essays and book reviews in Library Journal, you could set up RSS feeds in those categories. For health-related information, you can set up a number of feeds in PubMed to make it easier to collect information for patrons on a regular basis, such as setting up a RSS feed search by topic and limiting it to specialty journals, e.g. articles on macular degeneration in the Journal of Ophthalmology.