Comments on: (Fire)Wallflowers Invited to Dance? http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/01/27/firewallflowers/ News From the Northwest and Beyond Tue, 21 May 2013 16:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alison Aldrich http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/01/27/firewallflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 Alison Aldrich Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:53:17 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=725#comment-1214 That’s fine of course! It turns out we have a former Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona member right here in our office :)

]]> By: Ellen Aaronson http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/01/27/firewallflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 Ellen Aaronson Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:38:49 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=725#comment-1213 May I share this with MLGSCA members? We have a lot of people facing this dilemma! Thanks for considering!

]]> By: Hope Leman http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2009/01/27/firewallflowers/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Hope Leman Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:14:27 +0000 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/?p=725#comment-1210 Fascinating and important post, Alison.

I have found that if you create Web services that are freestanding, Web 2.0 projects and well outside the hospital firewall, that tends to win administrative approval. Our projects Medgrab and ScanGrants are examples.

Also, publishing in library periodicals about your projects (Computers in Libraries, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries for ScanGrants and Journal of Hospital Librarianship for Medgrab) lends gravitas to what you are doing and tends to raise comfort levels all round.

It also helps if there is an obvious use for your Web project. For instance, most hospitals need some kind of grant funding at some point and it is nice to be able to have a homegrown, instantly accessible database of funding opportunities and scholarships that I can call up at moment’s notice on any Internet–enabled device. “Looking for a nursing scholarship? Let’s take a look at the scholarship category in ScanGrants…” Makes librarians look good to have created such tools and to be able to employ them in concrete ways. It is harder to explain something more amorphous like the value of a library presence in FaceBook.

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