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Weve Got The Technology, Now How Do We Find The
Time?
Online Information Conference Tuesday 4 December
2007

• Anne Welsh
• Chambers Librarian, 18 Red Lion Court, formerly
  Information Officer, DrugScope

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Motivations

• (potential for) increased profit and profile
• provision of new services or development of
  existing ones
• efficiency gain
• cost-effectiveness
• TIME

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1. Make time for development ideas
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My Wishlist, 2005
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2. Think big
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then scale to suit your resources
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3. Keep up with new technology ...
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it may be more relevant over time
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4. Make friends with feeds
Feed-reading saved DrugScope 2 days a week
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5. Reuse and Repurpose
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again
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and again
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and again
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2.0 Timesavers
Monitoring sources using feeds
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2.0 Timesavers
Feeds direct from the catalogue
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2.0 Timesavers
Semi-automated blog posts
Flash demo at http//chillrssblog.wordpress.com/ex
tras/semi-automated-catalogue-posts/
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2.0 Timesavers
Commoncraft videos
Ideal for information literacy training
http//www.commoncraft.com/
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2.0 Shortcuts
Social Bookmarking
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2.0 Time Investments
Google Custom Search
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2.0 Time Investments
Wikis to share knowledge
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2.0 for All?
DONT do it because its 2.0 DONT do it because
everyone else is 2.0 Do it because it meets your
business needs for efficiency and time
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