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Tense, nervous headache? Relax, you’re a librarian!
Oliver Obst suggests a reprint of a blog post -- posted on the blog on 18 June 2011 -- a piece from Sarah Stamford
The Lista APDIS Online: a new vision for an existent service
The Lista APDIS Online (LAO) is a platform for scientific journals in Portuguese health science libraries launched in 2002, allowing efficiency in Inter-library loan services, journals searching, copy requests and their management among institutions. The evolution to a new version was essential. To develop and implement this new platform, the workflow of technical development was defined and the processes of upgrade and migration from the previous to the new database planned. Besides all functionalities of the previous version, the new version has a new database structure, a renewed layout, the ability forf libraries to update their contents and the existence of a user workstation allowing catalog search and requests. Success is predictable by over 1600 orders in only 5 months
Workshop on new strategies and tools for the eHealth library organized by the Andalusian eHealth Library
The Andalusian eHealth Library (Biblioteca Virtual del Sistema Sanitario Publico de Andalucia, BV-SSPA), was created in June 2006. The 42 librarians who already worked for the Health System were integrated within this new system. The annual library meeting has been held every year since then, and in 2013 the EAHIL workshop held in Stockholm was the model to follow
Micromedex: a brief review for a UK School of Pharmacy
Micromedex is one of the most popular tools used by pharmacists to provide medicines information. This paper outlines a brief review of the product to determine whether it would be suitable for use by undergraduates in a particular UK School of Pharmacy, that of UCL London
What are the attitudes of F1 doctors in Prince Philip Hospital towards their use of the iDoc app?
Access to information by all medical staff has undergone drastic change over the past 10 years. Paper-based information sources are no longer seen as the most useful and important. These days people want access to information when and where they need it, rather than going to a library to look information up later in their day. This is where smartphones and more specifically smartphone apps are now coming into their own
Abandoning native apps to become future friendly
Native apps have become the norm of mobile interaction with digital services, but it’s an expensive way to reach users. With responsive web design, a more inclusive and accessible experience can be crafted for all mobile users instead of just a majority. This article describes the move from a native library app to a responsive website, and why it is right for the future
US Medical Library Association report for EAHIL
MLA 2015: Austin, Texas, 15-20 May 2015. Conference report.As you all know from my previous columns, MLA 2015 was held this year in Austin, Texas and closed earlier today. This is the third time it has been held in Texas over recent years (with MLA 2002 being held in Dallas and MLA 2005 being held in Phoenix) but it had a different feel from either of those meetings
National Library of Medicine report for EAHIL
Changes at the LibraryThe Director of the National Library of Medicine, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, retired on March 31, 2015 after 31 years of leading the world’s largest medical library