RSS Event 7 June 2007: Presenters

Our presenters on 7 June are:

Patti Biggs (NIMR)

Patti has been Deputy Librarian at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for nearly eight years.  Prior to this she was at Middlesex University for over 13 years and was involved in their CPD programme both as participant, mentor and trainer. At NIMR Patti's role is focussed on innovating library services and user education.  She makes extensive use of RSS feeds as way of monitoring changes in the information landscape, information resources and the softwares which we use. Patti contributes regularly to the NIMR Library Blog and has been creating some experimental RSS feeds from searches of bibliographic databases. 

Frank Norman (NIMR)

Frank has been Librarian at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) for eight years, and Deputy for ten years before that. In 1995 he set up OMNI, now part of the Intute service, but more recently has focused more attention on electronic journals.  He first started taking RSS seriously as a way of delivering journal contents information but has also recently launched a series of news feeds (e.g. Biomedical Research News). 

Anne Welsh (DrugScope)

Anne has been Information Officer at DrugScope for four years. In 2005, she created DrugData Update, a current awareness blog for the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) sector. This has been the subject of numerous presentations and articles, including papers at the NHS Networks Conference 2006, Libraries for Nursing Study Day 2007, and Five Weeks to a Social Library, for which Anne was the only British presenter. For the RSS Event, she has created a mini-blog, http://chillrssblog.wordpress.com/ , which includes the slides for her presentation on blogging to create feeds, a real-life diary showing how she integrates Web 2.0 into her daily routine and some extra material.