For MLIS Students

Series of Slides presented during the course concepts of Internet, librray automation and software in the Department of library and Information Science, Osmania University , Semester II, 2007-2008.see at slideshare

Multi-Lingual Cunsumer Health Information on MedlinPlus

MedlinePlus a srvice from National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institue of Health (NIH)released a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish to support Cunsumer Health Information,Patient education and Care. Health information is available in Farsi language as well as Armenian, Kurdish,Hindi, Urdo,etc.among other languages. The presentation format is multimedia, written, odio and video. Have a look at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

Rss engine or worm

RSS feeds , one of the Realy Suitable Services of web 2.0 in libray reference services/current awareness services has been accepted by librarians,ovationaly. Librarians use RSS to keep up-to-date or to make their library clintels keep themselves up-to-date in any interested topic.

I was thinking to an ideal association that follows standards as rules in any web 2.0 facets or social network sercices . I found that , Rss engine or worm (using worm as postfix)is something like association or collaboration to better utilization of RSS. Although, it is not the exact standardization that i was searcing for information about that. But it is an aggregation that bring together scattered pices of information. It searchs related RSSs and collects data from internet through RSS feeds.MedWorm is one of them.Medworm created by Franki.Presently there are seven associations in medical specialities including:

Pathology,Orthopaedics,Psychology,Pediatrics,Health, Medicine and and Bioethics Commentators,Medical Databases and Libraries,Genetics.

MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a technology used to simply publish and gather details of the very latest information on the internet. libworm was David Rothman's ,a medical library paraprofessional and blogger in Syracuse NY,suggesstion to Frankie Dolan, a UK-based IT engineer's and founder of MedWorm ,in medical library speciality.

LibWorm collects updates from about 1500 RSS feeds (and growing). You can visit links provided in webliography for more information in any of each.

webliography:
Tim O'Reilly
MedWorm
Libworm

Medical Library Blogs

You surely have heared about liswiki, a library and information science wiki, since 2005/, but i would like to tell you something about medical library/ librarians blogs or medlib blogs , the list available in liswiki. If you are interested to have search botton on your own blog,like the botton on the top-right side of this page, you can click here and thank Daivid Rothman.

Wikipedia's sister projects

Wikipedia is a portmanteau term combined of wiki and encyclopedia. The first part of fused term wikipedia referes to enjoyment of social networking software wiki and the second part shows the character of the information source as encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is most reliable internet-based resorces for academic as well as non-academic users that utilizes web 2.0 technology.
Wikipedia is developing its services to other sources of information in English language and non English languages. Its developing projects are as follow:
dictionary (Wiktionary),
Text books (Wikibooks), has been developed since 2003.
Free library (Wikisource),
Quotations (Wikiquote),
Images and media(Commons),
News source (Wikinews),

Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine and MLIS

Bloglines www.bloglines.com RSS reader
Citizendium www.citizendium.org Expert wiki
Connotea www.connotea.org Online reference organiser
Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us Website tagging
Flickr www.flickr.com Photo sharing
Ganfyd www.ganfyd.org Medical wiki
Hlwiki http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca health librarian wiki
Google blogsearch http://blogsearch.google.ca Blog searches
Google health www.google.com/coop/topics/Health Create your own
search tool
MedWorm http://medworm.com RSS aggregator
SlideShare http://slideshare.net Slide sharing
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki All purpose wiki
YouTube www.youtube.com Video snippets

Health literacy

I as a citizenship in the information society, not as a library and information specialist, am I able to make a right decision in my health problem.

I as a one who enjoys social networking in cyberspace to better communicate and better push a head, must to do a better choice when face a health problem.

Compare two people when face ill health. One start weeping, crying and feeling helpless,
The other one keeps calm then thinks to the choices and makes a good decision to release from the pain and problem.
Do I am a health literate?
Which one you would like to be? Vulnerable, dependent and sloucher or powerful one, dependable and knowledgeable one?


Do you think to offer your part to society and nature that has already granted and blessed you?

There are many organizations , nonprofit , individualand 3rd parties that they are sharing their own or their collected/selected information to help themselves and others to find a right path. For example see the folowings:

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcsite.nsf?open

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/VideoIndexPage/VideoIndexPagehttp://

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthliteracy.html

enjoy.