Slides and fulltexts on the web

EAHIL 2008 Helsinki Conference slides and fulltexts have now been added to the scientific programme homepage:

https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/EAHILScientificProgramme/Home

Some of the authors have notified, that their fulltext will be a bit late. So in case the text you are interested in is now missing, it is worthwhile to take a look at the page again later.

Many thanks for all the conference participants!

Pirjo Rajakiili
Chair of the International Programme Committee

Best Oral Presentations and Best Posters

During the General Assembly on Saturday 28.6. the Best Oral Presentation, Best "EAHIL first time" oral presentation, Best poster presentation and Best "EAHIL first time" poster presentation got awards.

Arne Jakobsson lead the evaluation process, and the evaluation team worked hard during the whole conference.

Following presentations were awarded, and as a prize the presenting authors got free registration for Dublin EAHIL Workshop 2009 or Lisbon EAHIL Conference 2010.

Best oral presentation:
EMBASE dot com: strength and weaknesses; a comparison, Dieuwke L. Brand-de Heer, Suzanne Bakker (The Netherlands)

Best "EAHIL first time" oral presentation:
Placing the academic library at the centre of veterinary PhD students'
training, Christine Brouwir, Sandrine Vandenput, Michel Maas, Nancy Durieux, Nicolas Fairon, Francoise Pasleau (Belgium)

Best poster presentation:
Personal professional development and skills transferring, Tuulikki Airaksinen, Kirsi Salmi (Finland)

Best "EAHIL first time" poster presentation:
The Danish Hospital Licence Consortium, Hanne Christensen, Conni Skrubbeltrang, Ilse Schødt (Denmark)

As members of the poster evaluation team - together with Elisabeth Akre and Manuela Colombi - we can only say, that since the quality of of the posters was very high, it was not easy to pick up the winners. As a tool for evaluation the evaluation forms [poster evaluation criteria] [oral presentation evaluation criteria] were used.

Congratulations for the awarded presentation and poster authors!

Katja Hilska and Katri Larmo

Saturday: General Assembly: EAHIL Awards for Linda Lisgarten and Ulrich Korwitz

The EAHIL Award 2007 goes to Linda Lisgarten for her continous work for the association (and I can only stress that point as she's a great colleague of mine at the editorial board of JEAHIL).


Ulrich Korwitz gets the EAHIL Award 2008 for his outstanding work (and even struggle) for achieving an high standard in copyright and interlibrary loan! Congratulations!!

Friday: Gala Dinner / Three rules

The gala dinner allowed for topic-free (and even sense-free) discussion and so it's no surprise that we came up with some brilliant ideas worthwile to share with you:

1. Three rules of library marketing (brought to us by the famous V&A sisters from Shefield)

1. Doctors: Make them think your'e an important person.
   
2. Nurses: Make them think you're a nurse like them. (see also commentary)
   
3. Students: Make them think you have a lot of give-aways. (but don't give them your cell phone number)
   

2. Three rules for music at a gala dinner (brought to us by a famous German dancer)

1. If you want to empty the dance floor, play three slow love songs in a row.
   
2. If you play (or pretend to play) traditional finnish songs, make a bid for the farewell ceremony.
   
3. If you want to make it a success, play sirtaki at the end.

3. Three rules to make friends among Finnish people
(brought to us anonymously)

1. People are different. Don't generalize. Not every Finn descends from the mongolian (even if he looks like).
   
2. Each Finn is 75% extroverted and 25% introverted. Check his mood before any conversation. Dancing should be handeld even more carefully.
   
3. Finns like to laugh a lot, so: If you are not that smart guy you pretend to be, learn some jokes by heart in advance.
   

If you have some 3-rules too, please don't hesitate to write them as a comment, I will add them.

Saturday: F1 - New technologies - Web 2.0

Only some short remarks, as I was the cheerleader of this session :-)

Dorine Kieft-Wondergem (The Netherlands): How to use Web 2.0 technologies in you library instructions

Use NETVIBES! It's so easy and just fun (and you can offer cute customized pages to your users)! As Guus added (see commentary), the EAHIL2008 Netvibes portal can be found at:

http://www.netvibes.com/eahil2008


Join and be an active part of the growing EAHIL2008 Web2.0-Community!

Giovanna F. Miranda, Francesca Gualtieri, Paolo Coccia (Italy): The revolution of the Web 2.0 in the library and information services

This was a comprehensive and well-thought paper which should have been taught at the very beginning of the conference. One thing really excites me: Because of the large number of different Web 2.0 applications, librarians are just not capable of knowing every single one of them in advance. So that's quite annoying or even anxiousing. In former times every librarian know every tool or database in advance to the user's request. This was his task and for that we was educated quite well. Now we have a somewhat big level of uncertainty, what will the user bring with him, what he will use, what he is used to. So what to do? Obviously, librarians have to show some attitude of ambiguity but also be familar with the basic tools (like Flickr, delicious, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, RSS and so on) and be flexible to quickly learn other tools as well.

Nicola Foxlee, Pauline Ford (Australia): Using your bite: a collaborative approach to evaluating improvement in information literacy skills using Web 2.0 technologies for dental and oral health students : a pilot study

At the beginning of her speech, that remarkable abroad-experienced lady (UK, Aus, CN, Fiji), recommended to just relax and enjoy her speech, which I was only to willingly to follow. So please forgive me that - after a heavy Gala Dinner - I just put some parts of my brain on Auto-Pilot. ;-)

From now on, please use only electric toothbrushes! Nicky will definitely control your oral health at Brisbane 2009 and made a EBLIP study out of it!

Saturday: Plenary Session III

Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland: HealthFinland - Finnish Health Information on the Semantic Web

Eero (actually from the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Laboratory of Media Technology, University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science - wow!) speaks on a prototyp semantic web, the so called HealthFinland. It's goal is to collect and distribute information on Finnish Health Information on the Semantic Web (there's also a book on this).

When listening to such systematic, all comprehensive-to-be large project, I'm always feel afraid on the immense engagement and money needed for just that simple access to information. But access to information is not that simple anymore, as librarians should know. Google has to do so much in the background to provide that search engine - and then we call it "simple"!


The promotion tells us: "There is an abundance of health-related information available on the Internet, but finding relevant information using traditional search engines remains a challenge. A lot of information is published through isolated web sites - "silos" of content that seldom link to each other. The information will be collected from a diverse group of sources including expert organizations, governmental institutes and non-govermental organizations. A quality control process will ensure that all information published through the portal is accessible, easy to understand, relevant to the topic, and factually correct. All content will be linked together using semantic web technologies: a common set of subject ontologies (YSO, MeSH, TESA) will allow the portal to link information from different sources, and ontological reasoning will be used to guide the user to relevant resources."

Lotta Haglund (Speaker] & David Herron, Karolinska Institutet University Library, Sweden: Implementing EBLIP to stimulate professional development

EBLIP (Evidence Based Librarianship Information Practice) is regarded as too time consuming to be put into practice (yeah, that's true). I quit for now - Please follow Lars' report on Lotta's talk at Nowherenorth.

Now, Lars found her cute youtube video for marketing the EBLIP5 conference in Stockholm next year (this post is in itself a proof of viral marekting, as the video infects blogs after blogs):

Friday: E1 - Virtual communities - Changing information services

Anne Collins, Isla Kuhn[Speaker], Peter Morgan (UK): Making a virtue out of virtual communities: working electronically with an advisory panel of library users.

Problems with existing user groups and library committees at the Medical Library at Cambridge University:

- poorly attended
- reverse volunteerism
- overcrowded agenda

Promises (to get participants):
- no meetings!
- opinion gathering function
- not to be a formal representative ("What did you think?")
- eager to have a two-way dialogue
- they didn't have to answer the question, no pressure
- fairly informal

They've got 46 faces "behind the voices". Mostly NHS Hospital and Univ Cambridge, less NHS regional and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

First questions were:
- journal consultation
- library closure on public holiday
- closure for stock check
- social networking

Friday: E2 - New technologies - Mobile applications

Lars Iselid (Sweden): Is there a mobile challenge for the libraries? - Mobile web 2.0 and the future of mobile access to content

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Lars, nobody can live blog this guy. But if, he will loose everything worthwile to mention: The vivid, surprising style of this Police-addicted swinging, swedish Linux-guy. Just great! Elisabeth Husem right away recommend him for keynote presentations. Lars' message: Keep on following the (coming and/or already present) mobile web, especially Google's ANDROID.



Paula Saraiva (Portugal): Change to a mobile environment: PDA reference services at the Library!

Paula compared PDA usage in 62 European and 17 oversee libraries. Especially she distinguished between user-owned vs. library-offered applications. She made a SWOT analysis on the "Benefits on using PDA's in Clinical Practice" and on "Implementing PDA Services in Libraries" with exciting outcomes. Respective threats were battery life resp. anxious staff.

She sees PDA services as excellent opportunities of innovation in health libraries. The use of PDAs in daily clinical practice increased productivity, better communication, immediate assistance, decrease of medical errors, integration with clinical decision making system and medical records.

she conclude, that all health libraries agreed to the benfits of PDA implementation and technological infrastructures are not the main constraint against that goal, but library budgets, staff resistance, and lack of appropriate applications.

Using PDA's in medicine is an irreversible process.

Friday, a pick from D1 Evidence-based practice 2: a clinical librarian

Clinical librarians as facilitators for an evidence-based nursing practice: clinical librarians in clinical wards. Sylvia Määttä, Gudrun Wallmyr, Maria Bohlin (Sweden)


Maria works as a clinical librarian (CL) in a hospital ward. She attends rounds regularly and is a familiar sight in a ward. Her services include:
- doing searches and putting reports together
- holding seminars in critical appraisals
- "Book a librarian" for face-to-face session
- "Call a librarian" for immediate help
- newsletter by e-mail
- information search request forms on the intranet

At first CL was a bit of an outsider, as she was a new and an unusual person in a ward. Nowadays she is seen as a catalyst: when CL and nurses collaborate, the use of evidence-based information has increased.

Friday: D2 - Virtual communities - Changing Library Space

 
Wouter Schallier, Jens De Groot[Speaker] (Belgium): Experimenting with scientific information. The biomedical library as an information lab

They reduced space by reducing the numbers of paper subscriptions. From 1.200 subs in 2005 they intend a reduction to only 200 in 200andsomething. They reduced binding too. Furthermore there saving space through collaboration among flemish academic libraries. Such as in Swiss, one out of of five libraries is responsible for preserving copies for a specific title. The other could eliminate them. (In Germany we have the National Library of medicine, Cologne, fortunately, which has this responisbility for the whole country.)

In contrast, the number of visitors to the library rised incredible. But we didn't have enough chairs (212), so students will leave the library if they don't find a free one. That's obviously a great loss of potential users. Library change from an information collector to an information facilitator (gatekeeper).

We should bring students, faculty and library staff together in one place in new ways of teaching and e-learning.

Library space should be primarily for learning and not for content (that's very, very true in my perspective too). They divided the library space in three spaces: a quiet one, a mixed zone (mostly PCs) and a group work zone.