Transcript From Traditional to Techno-Based Medical Library Services

FROM TRADITIONAL TO TECHNO-BASED MEDICAL LIBRARY SERVICES :
WHITHER NIGERIAN MEDICAL LIBRARIANS
Keynote presented during the Medical Library
Association of Nigeria(MLA-NG)2011 Conference/ AGM
By
Dr Chinwe Veronica Anunobi
Digital Librarian, Festus Aghagbo Nwako Library
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka
14-17 November , 2011
@
King David Hotel , Awka ,Anambra State
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REVOLUTION IN MEDICAL LIBRARY SERVICES :
CHANGING CONCEPTS
Digital
Services,
Automated services
Medical Education ,
Medical Services ,
Technology and Users
Interest .
Evidence Based
Librarianship(EBL)
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Social Media Based
Services
Evidence Based;
Medicine(EBM),
Evidence Based Health
Care (EBHC),
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MEDICAL LIBRARIANS CONCERN !!!
 Type of services rendered by Nigerian Medical
Librarians.
 Are we really among the players or onlookers or worse
still indifferent to the above unfoldings ?.
 It is necessary to note the various services , what
medical librarian should know and do as well as how
to do them .
 Thus be among the first 11 in the team of the players
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OUTLINE
 Traditional Medical services
 Techno-Based Medical Services
 What Medical Librarians Should know and Do
 How to do
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TRADITIONAL SERVICES
 Started with the oldest Nigerian Medical Library : Yaba
Central Medical Library(Est.1945) then University of
Ibadan Medical Library (Est. 1948).
 Number as many as there are teaching hospitals and
medicine related institutions
 Services include:
 Circulation
 Reference
 Bibliographic listings
 Referral
 Interlending.
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Serials
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Documents/Archives
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TRADITIONAL SERVICES CONT…
Print Based
Services
supported by
print based
operations
Traditional
Library
Characteristics
Traditional
Education
provides
foundation for
Medical library
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Ownership
the watch
word
Scope and Dept of
information sought
beyond what
library can provide
from available
sources
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TRADITIONAL SERVICES CONT…
 Services include:
 Circulation
 Reference
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Bibliography listings
Referral
Interlending.
Serials
Documents/Archives
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TECHNO-BASED SERVICES
Automated(Lowest
Level)
TechnoBased
Lib 2.0(Highly
interactive :
Everybody’s friend
.May embed in
Digital
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Digital( Technology
loaded and non
interactive)
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AUTOMATED SERVICES
Characteristics:
Championed by
Special Libraries in
Nigeria though not
medical E.g IITA ,
NIIA,
Combine
Print and ICT
to render
services
ICT:
LAN,WAN,
Internet &
Automation
software
Ownership:
full text
electronic
bibliographic
resources;
Automated services:
circulation,
bibliographic
search , Online
Public
Access
Catalogue services,
& other references
services;
Computer
traditional
needed;
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skills
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DIGITAL SERVICES
 Started with Indigenous Resources : theses & dissertations, other locally
generated resources;
 In Nigeria initiated by : AAU using Procite ( Bibliographic only).Then Fulltext
using Endnote;
 Then deployment of digitization software ( Greenstone, Dspace, Fedora, etc) &
often and not always Static websites;
 Characteristics :
Electronic full text;
Ownership & Access emphasized;
Fully technology based;
High level of ICT skills and limited Traditional library skills;
Combination of static and dynamic website;
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LIBRARY 2.0
 Out come of web 2.0: user generated content , highly
interactive ;
 Application of interactive, collaborative & multi
media web-based technologies to web-based library
services and collection ;
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LIBRARY 2.0 CONT…
 Characteristics
 Access to user generated content ( originating from user or through
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aggregation of already existing contents);
User centered;
Multimedia experience;
Socially rich & communally innovative ;
Optimally dynamic;
Operations & services web-based ;
Operations & services responsibility : Librarian & user;
High level of commitment : real time or a synchronic;
Breaks the wall between Medical Librarian & user;
Uses tools outside the walls of the Medical library;
Profile/ Image Booster;
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LIBRARY 2.0 CONT…
Contributing
to the Web
Content Tools
Networking &
Collaborating
Tools
Aggregating
and Marking
Tools
LIBRARY 2.0 TOOLS
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WHAT MEDICAL LIBRARIANS SHOULD KNOW &
DO
 KNOW
 Library operations and services evolving by the day!
 Users focus & needs have changed!
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CHANGE FROM
Traditional Medical services to Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)/ Evidence Based
Health Care (EBHC);
Visiting the library physically to Virtual access ;
Delayed Access to Real Time access ;
Consumer of information resources / services to Contributing for effective services ;
Reading a whole book to Reading relevant parts;
Using information in one format to Use of multimedia ;
Being a detached Medical Librarian to practicing Embedded Medical
Librarianship;
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WHAT MEDICAL LIBRARIANS SHOULD KNOW &
DO Cont…
 DO
 Reformation and Complete overhauling of Medical
Library services ( Facility & Personnel)
 Re-skilling to ensure effective reformation
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Computer literacy skills;
Digitization Skills;
Web 2.0 Skills;
REFORMATION TOOLS: TECHNOLOGY
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Collaborating Tools;
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Contributing to the Web Tools;
Aggregating & Marking Tools;
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REFORMATION TOOLS: TECHNOLOGY
Collaborating Tools:
• Social Networking tools(
Facebook, Myspace
,Orkut,
Linkedin,
• Wiki( Hawaiian
langauage) meaning
‘Quick’
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Contributing to the
Web Tools
Aggregating and
Marking Tools
• Blogging &
Microbloging tools(
Blogger, Wordpress
Twitter)
• Video & Image Sharing
tools: Youtube, Flickr
• Feed Readers: ( Google
Reader, Bloglines,
Netvibes
• Social Bookmarking :
Delicious. Connotea (
Design for Scientists to
bookmark, tag and share
)
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HOW
 Find out what these tools can offer ;
 Find their uses in other Medical Libraries ;
 Adapt such use to your library ;
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GENERAL USES
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For Collections Development;
Public Services: Reference, Current Awareness Services , Selective or
Strategic Dissemination of Information;
Marketing of Information services ;
Event Publicity;
Knowledge Sharing ;
Information Literacy program and other library education /Instruction
programs ;
News and Newsletters;
Real time Reference services & Alert;
Create database of resources in the Medical library ;
Follow and Assist medical personnel ( Embedded& Evidence Based
Librarianship);
Professional development(Communicate research findings, Collaborative
research, elearning;
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COLLABORATING TOOLS
SOCIAL NETWORKING :
The practice of individuals connecting and communicating around a common interest
using online tools and social networking sites.
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People can share photos, videos, audio files, links to websites of interest;
 Facebook, Hi5Networks, Myspace and LinkedIn
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Marketing Library services;
Broadcasting Events;
Sharing News ;
Posting informative photos, videos ;
Tagging ;
Find Jobs, Employees and Consultants ;
Creating community ( Medical Library Community ) to share with ;
Provide new ways for people to connect and use resources.
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COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…
 Facebook use for Medical Library services
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COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…
 Wiki : a website which can be edited online in your browser : Create
pages , assign use right like who can contribute, edit , or simply read.
E.g Wikiepedia
 Users contribute , interact with content and remain focus
USES
 Developing content ( Newsletter , Database of FAQs for Medical
Services;
 Collaborate in Research;
 Create faculty publication Database;
 Planning Medical Library Events;
 Collaborative reference resource collection ;
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COLLABORATING TOOLS CONT…Wiki
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS
 Tools that make it easy to publish and setup a website with text, video, photo and
advanced navigation features.
 Become producers of information on the Internet without programming knowledge
 Content becomes more accessible and content sources become more diverse
 Includes : Blogging (Wordpress, Blogger) & Microblogging ( Twitter);Online Video (
(YouTube)& Image (Flickr )sharing; Podcasting & Online Radio Tools:
 Characteristics
 No web development skills needed to add content
 Effective medium to communicate within and outside Medical Library
 Quick and simple to use.
 Encourage frequent content addition
 Through comments it allows knowledge exchange
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…
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USES
Develop dynamic Medical Library website and link users to it
Categories users and the content they receive
Information Literacy and other Library Instructions
Real-time Messaging
Provision of Alert to New publication
Providing Repository of EBM
Research support to medical personnel
Provision of How to Do Video
Staff development
Take the entire library services to the user computer
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS CONT…Blog
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NAU DIGITAL LIBRARY BLOG
You can follow us on Yahoo mail
[email protected] or our blog at
http://naudigitallibrary.wordpress.com.
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS
CONT…Microbloging(Twitter)
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE WEB TOOLS
CONT…YOUTUBE
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE INTERNET TOOLS CONT…
FLICKR
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AGGREGATION , TAGGING & SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING TOOLS
 Method for Internet Users to organise , store , manage
& search for bookmarks of resources
 AGGREGATION TOOLS
 Aggregation tools enable Medical Librarian receive and review
information from many sources without visiting individual website
individually on a regular basis .Rather Subscribe to content feeds.
 Identified as RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
or RDF [Resource Description Framework] Site Summary)
 Feed Reader aids aggregation & reading
 GoogleReader, Bloglines, Netvibes
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AGGREGATION & TAGGING & SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT… FEED READER
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AGGREGATION ,TAGGING & SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT…
 SOCIAL BOOKMARKING TAGGING TOOLS
 Use of web-based sites to store important / relevant
sites tag and share with others
 You benefit from others stored sites and they benefit
from yours
 Gave rise to Folksonomy : collaborative tagging,
social classification, social indexing, and social tagging
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AGGREGATION , TAGGING & SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT…
USES
 Marketing of Library websites &information contained there
 Distribution of subscribed sites or other web content
 Selection & acquisition of web content
 Aggregation of topics & research output for multiple sourcing
 Create medical literature awareness system
 E referencing
 News
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Evidence based Librarianship(EBL)
Sharing of resources
Bringing user and Medical Librarian together
Strategic Dissemination of information
Embedded Librarianship
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AGGREGATION & TAGGING & SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING TOOLS CONT… DELICIOUS
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CONCLUSION
 No Medical Library that worth its name can afford to
avoid Library 2.0.!
 Read about it!
 Use it !
 You will be happy and be at the fore front of Evidence
Based Librarianship !
 Sound decision is based on evidence .!
 Prove your worth by using Library 2.0!
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Thank You for Your Time &God
Bless!!!!
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