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!