Having worked in the Alcohol and Other Drug sector before moving into more general health librarianship this year, I’ve been interested in the growing literature on network theory within medicine. As a non-clinician, it can be a little bit difficult to follow some of the debate - especially at the genetic level. A recent article in [...]

Spent Friday evening at Late at the Library - an event to celebrate the opening of the British Library’s new exhibition, Taking Liberties: We take our rights for granted. Free speech. A free press. The rule of law. The power to vote in those who make the laws and spend our taxes. And the power to [...]

Poetry International has an interesting blogging experiment going on. From the card attendees found on our seats on Saturday evening (and presumably all this year’s events): This year, poets, artists, young creatives, international writers and professionals from the world of literature join us as festival bloggers in residence. They are ...

One of the highlights of Elisad was hearing metadata expert Karen Coyle speak. Her paper Future of the Catalog was unusual for Elisad in that no reference was made to AOD, but it was no less riveting for that, and probably very healthy for subject specialists to be faced with a wider perspective. Beginning with stats [...]

I arrived on the red-eye flight from London>Turin just in time to catch the end of Bonaria Biancu’s workshop at Elisad, Do It Ourselves: Social Technologies for Information Retrieval, so I’m really pleased to see that she has posted a brief synopsis on her blog, The Geek Librarian (Google English translation here, with all the ...

Closing paper at the Elisad Conference: Posted in AOD, communications, diary, engagements, Information, papers, social software, Third Sector 2.0, Web 2.0 diary   Tagged: collaboration, conference papers, Elisad, Elisad 2008, Elisad Conference, online collaboration, presentations   

Preparing my paper for Elisad on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, I’m grateful to the Blogging Section of SLA-IT and resource shelf respectively for highlighting articles on how to generate and limit User Generated Content. As governmental organisations or NGOs, Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) information providers ...

Lyndsay Ress-Jones will be one of the speakers at the BCS KIDMM / ISKO UK event on 9 October. From the publicity: Lyndsay is a senior adviser to the Membership Support Unit at CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. She oversaw the introduction of CILIP Communities, the online system which provides discussion ...

Last year I spoke at the Online Conference on time management and Web 2.0. It was such a positive and afirming experience, that this year I applied to speak on the showfloor and I’m delighted and a little daunted to have been accepted. I’ll be speaking on Third Sector 2.0 [...]

Looking for a decent introduction to the issues around social software and accessibility for visually-impaired people? This report from Cheris A Carpenter (Columbia County Public Library)  provides a good overview: Research into ‘Web 2.0 accessibility’ for people with disabilities has recently gained momentum in library and information ...