JM2010 Contributed Paper: No Urban Amish Here (2nd review)
Posted on January 29, 2010 by ebrennan | 1 Comment
Posted by Carol Ann Attwood, MLIS, Patient Health & Education Library, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Presenters discussed ways that they reached out to the user group of first through fourth year medical students to determine 1) if current orientation to library systems satisfied their needs, and 2) if not, what changes could be suggested. Information and participation was reached using free lunchtime meals and a chance to return to share additional comments in open forums through the years.
Updates to the library website included RSS news feeds, Facebook links, links to the medical student’s webpage, photo sharing, and Twitter options. Their Twitter account had 41 followers, including five listservs. Workflow for maintaining marketing of services to students included drafting blog comments, editing to determine acceptability within institutional guidelines and posting/publishing.
Each user was given the name of their personal librarian to utilize during their medical school studies and librarians initiated interactions with the students and found that this helped students to access them with questions. Further initiatives include the possibility of utilizing webcasts for training and reviewing staff /students attitudes of the use of Web 2.0 tools.
Posted 1/29/10
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
Check out the slides with complete speaker notes at: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaEMcnROXV0VZGR2c2t0djRfMTg2NThqajZwZGo&hl=en%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3E.
There are also handouts associated with this paper:
1) https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6EMcnROXV0VYzM3N2NmMDUtZTBiYy00OTJmLTg1MzQtNjg2MTk1NzZmZmIy&hl=en
2) https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6EMcnROXV0VZTMyYTg3MDYtNThlNi00MzNjLTllNzQtMDg0MDI4YzE4YTg3&hl=en