The development of better library information systems will always remain the core business of any serious library organization, but a shift took place towards (freely) available web-based tools for creating and managing the information workflow. End-users are not only using these heavily, but are also creating their own preferred tools. Today's students are incorporating Web 2.0 skills in daily life, in their social and learning environments. Tomorrow's academic staff will expect to be able to use their preferred tools and resources within their work environment. Today's ánd tomorrow's libraries should support students and staff in the learning and research process by integrating their services and resources into our patrons' environments. This practical workshop will demonstrate the use of Web 2.0 technology to empower users and librarians. During a hands-on session, participants will work with these tools. They will develop tailor-made services via personal start page software like Netvibes, making use of RSS-feeds, Widgets and Browser extensions. We will explore the use of Netvibes and Web 2.0 tools in library staff and/or library user education/instruction. We will focus on library services which can be created almost on-the-fly with low costs and high impact. The growing use of social networks justifies the development of a library presence within these networks to reach out to our users. Paper, slides and recommended reading : http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/08carte/recommendedreading.html#brekel

1. “ Power To The User (and to Librarians) Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, UMCG & Dorine Kieft Wondergem TICER 2008 Module 3a: Hands-on: Library 2.0 . 14.00 – 17.30

12. Bringing the Tools to The Content & to The User

15. NLM SEARCH WIDGET BLOG WEBSITE iGoogle Netvibes MyYahoo FACEBOOK MySpace Opera Windows Live Apple Dashboard Vista INTRANET http ://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/229971/nlm-search-solutions

21. www.widgetbox.com

22. Some stats PubMed 1482 MedlinePlus 961 MedWorm 815 DermAtlas 500 KMLE Medical Dictionary 593 ToXSeek 590 HazMap 402 Consumer Health and Patient Education 473 Mesh Search Swedish-English 522 UpToDate 110 NLM ALL Search 174 NLM Gateway 22 (New) Search ALL EAHIL Websites 20 (new) See all my Netvibes WIDGETS: http://eco.netvibes.com/users/9148

30. library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … Source: Lorcan Dempsey, CIC 2007 … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Network level workflow Google, … Integrated local consumer environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, …

33. Take a tour in Netvibes by Netvibes: http://ginger.netvibes.com/overview.php

37. Change language, theme, background …

41. When ready: DONE

42. Change tab name Or another setting

43. If you want to delete a box…

44. Click on the header and on X

45. And delete forever

46. Move the boxes as you like by dragging

49. Click on the widget (provided by Netvibes) you want

50. And add to your page

52. Go Public

54. Just follow these three steps

55. EXAMPLES OF PUBLIC PAGES

59. USE IN EDUCATION & INSTRUCTION: www.netvibes.com/EduCMB

75. “ To boldly go where your users have gone before”