Tooling up to facilitate findability, virtual collaboration, and storytelling with data

Technology matters more than ever in these challenging times. Given the competition between library services and the commercial sector, tight funding climate, and increasing calls for transparency and accountability, we need to take advantage of all the tools at hand. Technology tools provide critical opportunities for health sciences libraries to connect users to sought-after resources in an ever-deepening pool of available research, scholarship, and data; problem solve to achieve efficiencies and cost savings; reach out to users in ways more potent than ever; and strengthen and expand the role of the library within the institution and beyond. Every year, this column recognizes a handful of health sciences librarians and libraries for projects that use technology in innovative ways. Virtual projects refer to successful implementations of technological advancements and their real-world use in library environments -- particularly those that extend services beyond the bounds of the physical library experience.