I must admit that when I started this week, I was not sure if I could finish this assignment for the MLA Web 2.0. At work they block YouTube and there are a number of firewalls that prohibit videos and other databases. One such database is MDConsult. Even though our hospital subscribes to this database, they have a firewall up so that off of our catalog, run by CyberToolsForLibraries, we cannot go out to MDConsult. This is very frustrating as CyberTools has put together a wonderful service to get us fulltext books and journals through their efforts in working with MDConsult, PubMed, and EBSCOhost. The support team at CyberTools is wonderful and stayed with me on the phone for over an hour helping me add this service to our catalog. Unfortunately when I actually tried it, the firewalls were up. I have then tried EBSCOhost and some of that does go through, but there is alot of work still to be done. I know CyberTools will be there with me to help until all of this is up and running. They are truly fabulous people!
As for learning how to set up a blog and add feeds to it, this is wonderful! I have had a good time in doing this and am anxious to show our staff that they also can do this. I think some of our doctors will go crazy in knowing they can do this from their offices and homes. This is what they truly want to do, get the information from their favorite journals as quickly and yet easily as possible.
I am speaking at Kent State University School of Library and Information Science at the class of Special Libraries in April and I am going to include blogging and RSS in my talk to show them how to do this and how this will make their lives easier, no matter what job position they will acquire.
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Joyce,
Sounds like you are getting some useful information out of this course, even though time constraints and firewalls are creating some obstacles. Good luck with your university class.
Joyce,
This is interesting. Like you, I am concerned about being able to finish all assignments, given time concerns and firewall blocking some sites. Sounds like you are gaining alot of useful information--even utilizing the info to teach a university class. Wonderful
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