My real name is Jacqueline. Married w/2 daughters, 10 and 15 years old. In a previous live, I studied Medical Biology and worked as a scientist (PhD 1990).
In between several PhD-jobs, I followed a post-doc course documentary information science (1994-1995) and worked as an information specialist in a pharmaceutical company. Since 5 years I have a permanent job (my first!) as a medical information specialist at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. Each working day I bike 10 km to-and-fro the AMC via the polder. -to keep me in shape.
My work is split 75%-25% between two jobs: one as a clinical librarian in the Medical Library and one as a Trial Search Coordinator (TSC) for the Dutch Cochrane Centre. As a clinical librarian, I’m involved in developing courses (also in the curriculum), teaching & searching. As a TSC I assist authors writing a systematic review, coordinate handsearches and am involved in courses and projects. The jobs, however, are not strictly separated: the Medical Library and the Dutch Cochrane Centre cooperate very closely to promote evidence based practice.
This blog was started as part of the online course SPOETNIK on NEW (web 2.0) internet communication methods for librarians. I chose the name Laika Spoetnik as a pseudonym, Laika being the first earthling launched into orbit (with Spoetnik II) as kind of an pioneering experiment. One of the reasons I chose this name was I only saw the blog as an experiment, but now I seem yo be irreversibly(?) infected by the blogvirus.
In the beginning I only blogged the course exercises (web 2.0 tools). I will remain to do so, but the emphasis of my blog will be anything related to medical librarianship, medical information, EBM, Cochrane Collaboration, etc.
I will also write about other things that interest me, like science and medicine (especially my previous specialties), sports, food and patient-oriented matter. Since the last pregnancy I have Sheehan’s sydrome or postpartum hypopituitarism, and (therefore) secondary Addison’s Disease.
Post on this blog will be written in English and Dutch.
Needless to say, but views or opinions expressed on this page are those of the blogger Laika and do not necessarily reflect views of her employers, the Medical Library, DCC, AMC, her husband, daughters, cat, rabbit or hamster. The virtual Laika Spoetnik is solely responsible for its content.
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Dear Jacqueline,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover hci in MedLibLog , I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Jacqueline
Been meaning to visit here for a while as I do enjoy our tweet exchanges
I’ve just added you to Google Reader, so your posts will hopefully stay on my radar ready for future tweets 
Dave Bradley
Sciencebase.com
The tweet exchanges are certainly a mutual pleasure. And useful. I’m glad that my blog is also in your radar now. Your blog was already picked up by mine. Hope our inspiration for tweets will be further fed by our feeds. See you!
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