Week 7, Part B – EAHIL has great galla dinners!
Week 7, Part B – EAHIL has great gala dinners – or what I learned on YouTube
The second part of Week 7’s assignment was to explore YouTube, find a library that was using YouTube, find a video that I like, and share it on my blog.
Using YouTube was relatively easy, considering my dial-up connection. I searched for “medical libraries” and found about 200 listings, many of which celebrated library week or provided library instruction.
My favorite video, however, was the first one on my list of results:
Sirtaki at EAHIL Gala Dinner in CLuj. Medical Librarians dancing till climax ……Sirtaki EAHIL EAHIL2006 Gala Dinner CLuj medical libraries
Added: September 28, 2006
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) is an active professional association uniting and motivating librarians and information officers working in medical and health science libraries in Europe. EAHIL encourages professional development, improves cooperation and enables exchanges of experience amongst its members. The association counts about 1 000 members from about 30 European countries.
The program for the 10th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania September 11-16, 2006, is found here:
http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/scientific_programme.html
The Gala Dinner at Hotel Belvedere was held 1900-2400 on September 15.
The conference has a photogallery: http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/registration.html, but no photographs from the Gala Dinner are on the site. You can recognize librarians from the video in some of the photographs, however.
I enjoyed my YouTube experience. If the site were ever unblocked in our library, we could develop some fun programs. For instance, we always wanted to have a library training program with Peeps. Our oral history programs are video, so perhaps some of those could be shared.
Week 7, Part A: Podcasting
Week 7, Part A: Podcasting
Our assignments were to explore the podcasting directories of podcast.net and Podcast Alley, to view two medical libraries’ podcast sites, create an Odeo account, search for podcasts, subscribe to a podcast, and note subscription under My audio.
I found Podcast Alley easier to use than Podcast.net. Podcast Alley was faster, better organized, and included interesting features like voting. I liked how the description of the video and author popped up when you clicked on it. I was surprised to see videos listed on Podcast.net.
I could not get into UT podcasts, but the history of medicine lecture series at UVA was impressive and well displayed and organized.
Creating an Odeo account was easy, and finding podcasts of interest was simple, if sometimes slow through dial-up. I found NPR Health and Science, but somehow accidentally subscribed via an RSS feed to Google Reader. Of course, initially the RSS feed went to the wrong person, as I share the computer with the cheap husband, who signs into a different volunteer organization account. I was able to change to my account and copy in the NPR URL to my Google Reader RSS feeds. Four NPR programs appeared, and sometime after, I heard bits and pieces of one coming through the computer speakers. I realized that I was supposed to subscribe differently, but when I went to change the subscription in Odeo, it told me I already had a subscription. So I subscribed to a different program. I think I find getting them through my RSS feed more convenient however anyway.
I am not sure that developing Podcasts has too much potential use in our library at this time, in part, because all of the sites are blocked. Sometimes podcasts can be useful for staff education, however, like sharing a recent NPR story that mentioned our organization.
