Cuttings
Articles
Welsh, Anne Blogging: current awareness in the online age. Elisad Journal, 17, February 2006: 10.
This brief article highlights the advantages of blogging as a current awareness tool, using DrugScope’s blog, DrugData Update as an example
Welsh, Anne Blogging to raise awareness: the DrugScope experience. National Library for Health. Knowledge Management Specialist Library, November 2005.
Editorial describing the impact of DrugData Update on the profile of DrugScope, its information service and staff.
Welsh, Anne New lamps for old: current awareness and profile-raising. Libraries for Nursing Bulletin, 26(1-2), March-June 2006.
This paper describes the expansion of DrugScope’s current awareness services to include its blog, DrugData Update, and the impact of this on the profile of the organisation and its staff.
Conference Presentations
Goodair, Christine and Welsh, Anne Blogging Technologies for Outreach and Network Building. 1st Annual NHS Networks Conference: Models & Innovations in Health & Social Care Networks, 30 November 2006.
Blogging is commonly perceived as being for individuals to share their daily experiences. But what else can Web 2.0 technologies be used for? In the information and library world information dissemination and current awareness services are well-established activities. What are the impacts when you apply new collaborative technology to these well-worn traditional tasks?
Training
Slides from a presentation designed for members of the CHILL Consortium to demonstrate how we created our blog, its impact and key considerations for other libraries considering blogging. After this introductory presentation, we took attendees through setting up a blog on Blogger software in a hands-on session.
Welsh, Anne Blogging for the Bewildered. Libraries for Nursing Study Day, June 2007.
Welsh, Anne Blogging to Create Feeds. CHILL RSS CPD Event, June 2007.
Slides in blog format for an event that ran twice in June 2007.
Welsh, Anne From Writer’s Block to Library Blog. Screencast for Five Weeks to a Social Library Course, February 2007.
Common deterrents to professional blogging are a perceived lack of material to blog about, and the amount of time needed to produce material. This presentation demonstrates how common library activities such as acquisitions, cataloguing and enquiry work can be transformed quickly and easily into blog entries.
Welsh, Anne Information Blogs by Information Professionals. Cilip CIG Blogging from the Backroom Event, June 2007.
Slides in blog format.
Welsh, Anne RSS ecology: a Day in the Life of a Web 2.0 Librarian. CHILL RSS CPD Event, June 2007.
Slides in blog format.
DrugData Feed
