Presentation for librarians at the Midwest Chapter, MLA 2008 annual meeting about the state of current awareness tools and techniques. Yes - a re-working of the Medicine 2.0 presentation, with a little more editorializing about levels of evidence and our profession.

7. Does Current Awareness Need to Look Like This?

8. No, it doesn’t have to be that bad!

9. What We Did (and why) We started with our existing Online Journals list

10. What We Did (and why) We divided the feeds by subject/discipline

11. What We Did (and why) We created OPML bundles and working links for “top” journals in a field/discipline

12. What We Did (and why) The really sexy part – custom processing of the feeds to add formatting and social tools using SimplePie

13. Why OPML Bundles? Use them wherever you prefer – Google Reader, Bloglines, Thunderbird, etc. No product or site lock-in here!

14. But Wait, There’s More! While we’re at it why not add news feeds?

15. But Wait, There’s More! And perhaps some podcasts while we’re here?

16. What about non-text content? The UW School of Medicine & Public Health provides access to many videos for free

17. What about non-text content? You can subscribe to those too!

19. Gadgets! We provide a selection of gadgets we’ve created and other select health gadgets (NLM, CDC, etc)

20. Gadgets! Create your own portal, and let your content mix and mingle with other people’s

21. Toolbars! Organize your most popular resources for a specific audience and pull together disparate things in one tidy package EBM Toolbar General Library Toolbar