Net notes: PDAs

Earlier this year I visited the USA and Canada as part of the VALA travel scholarship to research use of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) in medical libraries. Below are some useful websites about handheld computer devices that I've bookmarked...

PDAs and Handhelds in Libraries and Academia
http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/PDA.html
Megan Fox, librarian at the Simmons College has put together this wonderful website with links to PDA projects happening in libraries, discussion lists, hardware and software sites and further readings to learn about personal digital assistants.

University of Alberta Libraries PDA Zone
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/pdazone/index.cfm

University of Illinois Health Sciences Library PDA Headquarters
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/pda/pda.shtml

Duke University Medical Centre Library Personal Digital Assistants
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/respub/guides/pda/

PDA's for Health Care Providers - Arizona Health Sciences Library
http://educ.ahsl.arizona.edu/pda/index.htm

University of Connecticut
http://library.uchc.edu/pda/

Online PDA Bibliographies
University of Illinois Health Sciences Library - Peoria: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/temp/bibsub/

University of Texas Health Science Center
http://www.library.uthscsa.edu/Internet/PDAbibliography.cfm

Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/pdabibliography.html

Useful Medical PDA websites
HandHeldMed
http://www.handheldmed.com/

Handhelds for Doctors
http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/

Healthy Palm Pilot
http://www.healthypalmpilot.com/

Medical Pocket PC
http://www.medicalpocketpc.com/

Palm Docs - The Physicians Online Palmtop Resource
http://www.palmdocs.org/

PDAMD
http://www.pdamd.com/vertical/home.xml

Terena Solomons

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