“ Into the User Environment Now!» was the title of my first plenary presentation at an EAHIL conference.
It pictured how -back in 2006- how users and the information landscape changed rapidly, and what we needed to do about it as medical libraries, to keep up the pace, to not loose the connection with the user.
Technologies to embrace, actions to take…
This update pictures where things went right, wrong or very different! And it discusses where we are now in 2022, with a peek into possible futures, from the perspective of a medical library in a Dutch academic hospital, facilitating patient care, education ánd research support.
Biography and Bibliography
Guus van den Brekel is medical information specialist at the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), in north of the Netherlands. His work includes developing, maintaining of library services and tools for staff and students, as well as innovation. As such he is also the ‘go-between’ for the IT-departments regarding library systems and services. Research Impact and Support is his major focus currently. He is coordinator for the UMCG’s current research information system (PURE). In general, he is always on the lookout for tools & services that make the workflow of hospital staff, researchers, teachers and students easier and more efficient. #eahil2022
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Into The User Environment 2022! EAHIL2022 plenary presentation
1. Things that went right, wrong, completely different
and anything in between 2006 - 2022
INTO THE USER
ENVIRONMENT 2022 A N D B E Y O N D
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
2. PATIENT CARE | RESEARCH |
EDUCATION
•1339 BEDS | >10.000 STAFF | 3455 STUDENTS
•3 7 0 0 R E S E A R C H E R S / A U T H O R S
•3 9 0 0 P U B L I C AT I O N S P E R Y E A R
3. F A C U L T Y O F M E D I C A L S C I E N C E S
/ U M C G
9. CE NTR AL M E D ICAL LIBR AR Y (CM B)
•T W I T T E R : @ C M B U M C G & L I K E U S O N FA C E B O O K
•E M A I L : C M B @ U M C G . N L
10. Central Medical Library
Into the user environment now!
How the users changed and how
libraries can adjust
Guus van den Brekel
Coördinator Electronic Services,
Central Medical Library
University Medical Center Groningen
11. • What was it about in 2006?
• What happened after 2006?
• Observations, new and old themes
• What lies ahead of us?
INTO THE USER
ENVIRONMENT 2022 A N D B E Y O N D
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
12. WHAT WAS IT ABOUT IN 2006?
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
13. Central Medical Library
Fragmentation of information
The user has to spend a lot of effort:
• To find them
• To learn to use them separately
• To search them separately
• To evaluate them
• To keep up with all individual changes
• To repeat the above, constantly
15. Central Medical Library
lab books
exhibitions
PDAs
learning management systems
campus portal
course material
text book
personal collections
reading
lists
Institutional repository
Digital collections
E-reserve
Catalog
Licensed
collections
Aggregations
Virtual
reference
Cataloging
ILL
library
user environments
resource environment
lab books
exhibitions
PDAs
learning management systems
campus portal
course material
text book
personal collections
reading
lists
Source: Lorcan Dempsey, Liber 2005
17. • Library disconnects
• Fragmentation of information
• Web 2.0 (We were not the only ones anymore)
• Changed environments, changed users
• OpenURL Linkresolvers
• Library toolbars & the browser
• Second Life
WHAT WAS IT ABOUT IN 2006?
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
18. • Library disconnects
• Fragmentation of information
• Web 2.0 (We were not the only ones anymore)
• Changes environments, changed users
• OpenURL Linkresolvers
• Library toolbars & the browser
• Second Life
SO, WHAT HAPPENED WITH ALL THAT?
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
20. Central Medical Library
Top Ten Technologies for Libraries to embrase
Weblogs
RSS
Wiki's
IM : Instant Messaging
Podcasting
OpenSource Software
SMS Text Messaging
Social Software
User-created content
Mashing-up services
24. Central Medical Library
Web 5.0
The fifth generation of web is the Sensory-Emotive Web called as a sentient web.
From: Web 5.0 for the enhancement of learning competencies in Education
25. Central Medical Library
The Second Life Medical Library 2.0
The chase for the Users ……
Into The User Environment : no limits
HealthInfo Island Medical Library 2007
27. Central Medical Library
What are the Benefits of all this?
• increase usage collection & databases
(on & off campus)
• More contact moments user vs. library
• improve the awareness of library services in general (branding)
• boost unknown valuable resources
• Posibilities to get better insight user search patterns and needs
28. • Ipads on Loan
• Focus on Research (Research Information System, Analytics,
and Support
• Journal Apps
• How to Keep up-to-date?
• How To Get the PDF (including How To PAY for the PDF
…want to know more? Ask me or Robin!
• Lean Library
• New focus/services in our library
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED AFTER 2006?
(IN THE CMB UMCG OR OTHERWISE)
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
48. • Document delivery
• PURE (our CRIS)
• Open Access & Open science
• Research Analytics & Impact
• UMCG Dashboard & datawarehouse
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
PROJECTS, COLLABORATIONS,
PARTNERS
49. • Project Open Access (UB & UMCG)
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Open access types (%)
Gold
Hybrid
Closed
Green
Bronze
50. Open Access Publication of the Week (2019)
Then: Open Science Publication of the Month (2022)
https://umcgresearch.org/open-science
52. • Further professionalization research analytics,
visualization
• Improving data quality in Pure
• “unburden” the researcher
• Smoothen import
• Corporate profiles
• External data & in cloud sync
• New Identity Management Module UMCG
(IAM) to be introduced
•More IDs needed:
• Author ID’s (internal & external)
• Affiliation & organization ID’s
Pure, our CRIS
53. 1. Professionals connected
2. Data
3. Evidence syntheses
4. Education
5. Resources and metrics
6. Everything interesting
BROADEN THE HORIZONS -
DIVERSITY, PARTNERSHIP AND
INNOVATION WITH A HUMAN TOUCH
EAHIL 2022, Rotterdam
Guus van den Brekel, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center Groningen
54. Central Medical Library
The Browser
• Browser extensions
– Bookmarklets
– User scripts
– Plugins
– Toolbars!
(Have a look at: Library Success : a best practice
Wiki)
66. Take home messages
• It’s about collaboration, not a competition.
• Also curiousity, keep finding out things.
• Leadership is important, to give people space, trust and
responsibility, to do what they are good at
• Engaging in research support & Pure has brought a whole
new range expertise for library staff and improved
perspective of the library
67. Central Medical Library
Thank you for your attention.
This was a mash-up of articles, presentations, blog-
posts published on these subjects, mixed with my own
experience and opinions.
(In the old days you could find all of them at http://del.icio.us/digicmb/cluj )
Better go to Slideshare.net/DIGICMB now ;-)