Somewhat misleading title - presentation at the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Montreal, September 2008 about current awareness tools and services developed at the Ebling Library for the Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. RSS is just the beginning...

2. Current Awareness in the Stone Age

3. Current Awareness in the Information Age

4. Current Awareness in the Not Too Distant Future? (the Post Information Age?)

5. Well, it doesn’t have to be that bad…

8. What We Did (and why) We started with our existing Online Journals list

9. What We Did (and why) We divided the feeds by subject/discipline

10. What We Did (and why) We created OPML bundles and working links for “top” journals in a field/discipline

11. What We Did (and why) And for all journals we had full text access to in a field/discipline

12. What We Did (and why) The really sexy part – custom processing of the feeds to add formatting and social tools using SimplePie

13. Why OPML Bundles? Use them wherever you prefer – Google Reader, Bloglines, Thunderbird, etc. No product or site lock-in here!

14. But Wait, There’s More! While we’re at it why not add news feeds?

15. But Wait, There’s More! And perhaps some podcasts while we’re here?

16. But Wait, There’s More! And even some self-study tools for the independent learner!

17. What about non-text content? The UW School of Medicine & Public Health provides access to many videos for free

18. What about non-text content? You can subscribe to those too!

20. Gadgets! We provide a selection of gadgets we’ve created and other select health gadgets (NLM, CDC, etc)

21. Gadgets! Create your own portal, and let your content mix and mingle with other people’s

22. Toolbars! Organize your most popular resources for a specific audience and pull together disparate things in one tidy package EBM Toolbar General Library Toolbar