Guess who's back, back again, Krafty's back, tell a friend.....

I hope those of you who watched yesterday's Emerging Technologies Webcast yesterday were able to learn something you could take home with you. I also learned a lot as a presenter. While synthesizing all of our individual presentations I learned from Bart Ragon that Nadine Ellero has a pretty extensive Podcast Environment Scan list that looks at what Health Sciences Libraries, Academic Libraries, and other Networks and Academic Medical Centers are doing with podcasts. Very cool.

Bart also spoke of how he discovered that Nadine was using social bookmarking (such as del.icio.us) to try and justify additions and changes in MeSH headings to augment cataloging record and make materials easier to locate. For example, the term nutrigenetics is not a MeSH term but it is used in social bookmarking and it is in medical literature. I know some people get twitchy (myself included at times) when talking about folksonomy, medical information, and our patrons, but here is a nice example of how we can make folksonomy work for us as well.

Well, I better get back to digging out from my email, mail, and other stuff that piled up while I was gone.