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The word “gadget” has been used since the 19th century to describe small mechanical or electronic devices with practical uses. Personal digital assistants (PDAs), pocket, tablet, and panel PCs, and a menagerie of accessories are the gadgets “du jour.” This article explores the range of gadgets available, how these gadgets interface with the intranet, and possible applications.
The medical library is an essential part of every academic hospital. Medical staff constantly evaluate clinical findings at the patient’s bedside to establish the diagnosis and to provide evidence-based treatment options. Excellent care is the desired outcome. The search for medical literature is an important tool for the evaluation and precipitates a connection between the staff at the patient’s bedside and the medical library. Access must be time-effective to provide the best possible care for the patient. This article discusses how the Sidney Liswood Library at Mount Sinai Hospital used PDAs to facilitate bedside health information.
XML is the most important technological advance for information professionals since the Web. Extensible Markup Language (XML) increasingly provides the underlying technological infrastructure for many of the information systems and services used every day. For a profession that is founded on the collection of information and the provision of services to users who wish to use that information, it is hard to think of a more useful tool. This article briefly describes XML and how it can be used, then highlights particular uses of it in libraries.
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Last year the September/October issue of Intranet Professional covered Northern Lights enterprise solutions, Intranets 2001, and knowledge architecture. Little did we know then how dramatically the world would change just after the issue was published. For example, we now know that September 11, 2001, was a knowledge management disaster of catastrophic proportion.
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