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Weblogger's Salon - UBC's Bloggers Sound Off Blogging in UBC Library By Eugene Barsky, Physio Outreach Librarian Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC [email protected]
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Weblogger's Salon - UBC'sBloggers Sound Off
Blogging in UBC Library
By Eugene Barsky, Physio Outreach LibrarianIrving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC
what’s it all about?
what are blogs
what we do with blogs
how other UBC Librarians use blogs
what are blogs?
defining blogs…think online journal about a subjectarranged in reverse chronological orderupdated frequentlyshort posts, usually containing personal commentary and links
what are blogs?
“the blog concept is about three things: Frequency, Brevity, and Personality”
evan williamscreator, Blogger software
http://writetheweb.com/Members/gilest/old/107/
UBC Physio Info-Blog
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/
UBC Physio Info-Blog – why blogging?
the Physio Outreach Librarian is working with 1,700 practicing physiotherapists in BC, who belong to Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia
the physios are located anywhere in the province from Terrace to Cranbrook to Nanaimo
the challenge is to serve information needs of practicing health professionals
UBC Physio Info-Blog – why?
provide immediate information serviceskeep up with community interestskeep the community informed of itselfshare community’s interests with others
provide immediate information services
immediate reference service by the librarian via Instant Messaging (using MeeboMegadget)no need for personal IM account
provide immediate information services
specialized physiotherapy search engine (using Google interface)searches only for high quality physio info on the web
provide immediate information services
Library workshops’registration and materials across BC are available from the blog
provide immediate information services
In-depth health info is provided via “how to” section on the blog
keeps up with community interests
RSS feeds for up-to-the-minute physiotherapy research from major biomedical databases (PubMed, CINAHL)
keeps up with community interests
RSS feeds for up-to-the-minute general science and health information from various sources
keeps a community informed of itself
work of community members is highlighted
keeps a community informed of itself
local authors publications are highlighted
shares community’s interests with others
Audiocasts of UBC Physio events are recorded and distributed (UBC IR)
shares community’s interests with others
Audiocasts of local physioworkshops and seminars are recorded and distributed (please be aware of copyright!)
the result?
Our users LOVE it!“Thank you for moving the profession into the 21st century”“Great service you are offering the physio community”“Thank-you Eugene! I have been listening to these files with my .mp3 player and it's so convenient! Thank-you for going to the effort to do this for us, especially those of us on the island that cannot attend some of the presentations. I hope you will be doing more podcasts.”
stats, graphs…
keeps the stats from visitsdistribution of visitors
a story….
physio in Smithers using IM via the blogpatient with a neck painusing therapeutic exercisewhether effective?best practices / best evidenceanswer found and provided in five minutes
More UBC Library blogs
Law Library blog -http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/lawlib/Alive since summer 2004. Says Elim Wong – “this is a great way to announce new books and things of interest to generally the Law Faculty and students. “
More UBC Library blogs
UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar blog -http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/"To observe, document & comment on the evolution of academic-scholarly searching"
More UBC Library blogs
the Social Library blog -http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/lawlib/Discusses how librarians are using social software at UBC
More UBC Library blogs
Linguistics and Language Resources blog -http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/lingua/library weblog for linguistics faculty and students at UBC
More UBC Library blogs
psychology resources blog -http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/psychresources/name says it all
Managing UBC Library blogs
it is easy to co-author more than one blog, collaboration is the nature of blogging
Contact info
Eugene Barsky, MLISPhysiotherapy Outreach LibrarianIrving K. Barber Learning CentreUniversity of British ColumbiaPhone: (604) 827-4088Fax: (604) 822-9122Email: [email protected]/Meebo: [email protected]: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/physio/Web: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/
