Health Information Management: What Strategies?: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries, Coimbra, Portugal, September 18–21, 1996

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Future Scenarios: The Context of Strategic Planning....Pages 1-8
The Health of Nations … Through the Strategic Development of Networking Cooperation....Pages 9-12
Professional Development & Management Strategy: Keeping Up-to-Date on Changes in Resources....Pages 13-17
Towards the Information Society: the National Union Catalogue in Portugal....Pages 18-18
Information Teaching: Beyond Curriculum into Lifelong Learning....Pages 19-24
Global Knowledge Management Systems: Challenges for Libraries in the Digital Era....Pages 25-30
Highlights of Health Sciences Information in America Latina and Caribbean....Pages 31-31
Information Market Synergy: Will European Contents Become European Products?....Pages 33-40
New Tools in Biomedical Research: Dynamic Full Text Collections....Pages 41-44
Making Yourself Indispensable: Experiences from 25 Years of Networking....Pages 45-48
European Clearing Houses: Two Approaches to Managing Information....Pages 49-49
Improving Access to Grey Literature by Cooperation....Pages 50-50
Reseau DIC DOC INSERM: Du Travail Partage à la Mise en Commun des Connaissances....Pages 51-53
L’information sur la Sante: Les Deux Autres Dimensions....Pages 54-56
Quality Management in the Information Service Centre of the FIOH....Pages 57-60
Enhancing the Value of a Health Library and Information Service to Clinicians....Pages 61-63
Costing Library Services....Pages 64-65
How Healthy are Your Health Databases?....Pages 66-68
Retrenchment and Cost-Etfectiveness in the Reduction of Serials Subscriptions....Pages 69-70
Improving Economic Management of an Information Unit....Pages 71-73
Different Hosts, “Same Database”: Differences that Must be Known by the Professional Searcher....Pages 74-74
Quality Requirements in Management of Subscriptions....Pages 75-79
Liaison Programme at a Multi-Faculty University Library....Pages 81-83
Traditional and Electronical Library Services....Pages 84-84
Evaluation of Medical Library Collections in Hungary....Pages 85-89
Coping with Inadequate Resources in South Africa....Pages 90-93
Multimedia in an Academic Medical Library....Pages 94-97
Use of CD-ROM in the Medical Library: 8 Year Follow-Up....Pages 98-98
Information Needs and a Country of Scientific Periphery....Pages 99-99
Medical Information in Tartu University Clinicum....Pages 100-101
New Services Against Old Mentalities....Pages 102-102
Veterinary Medical Library Services in Austria....Pages 103-105
Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine: New Library....Pages 106-108
Information Retrieval Skills for Problem Based Learning....Pages 109-112
Information Skills in the Curriculum....Pages 113-116
Le Centre de Documentation et la Formation des Psychiatres et des Psychologues....Pages 117-117
Which Literature Retrieval Method is Most Effective?....Pages 118-119
Scientific Library: Training for Everyone....Pages 120-120
A Permanent Role of University Libraries in Information Literacy Training: Electronic Media and Computer Networking....Pages 121-121
Some Experience with Reference Manager....Pages 122-122
Finding Solutions in the Library....Pages 123-125
Plants Toxic to Animals: A Curriculum-Integrated Home Page....Pages 126-128
The AIDA Project and Document Delivery in Italy....Pages 129-131
L’importance du Projet AIDA Dans le Transfert de L’information Medicale....Pages 132-137
Le Service Fourniture de Documents à la Bibliothèque de L’institut Pasteur de Paris....Pages 138-140
Interlibrary Lending and Electronic Communication....Pages 141-143
Ariel: Interlibrary Document Delivery on the Internet....Pages 144-148
Copyright and the Pharmaceutical Industry....Pages 149-151
Storage & Dissemination of Electronic Journals....Pages 152-155
Formation sur L’usage d’un Centre de Documentation pour les Omnipraticiens....Pages 157-160
Impact of Library and Information Services on Physiotherapists’ Decision Making....Pages 161-163
Local Medical Information Database: An Indispensable Complement to Global International Search....Pages 164-164
Information Support for Clinical Decision Making in Primary Healthcare....Pages 165-167
Un Bulletin Bibliographique en Sante Publique a Destination des Pays Francophones....Pages 168-169
A European Information Network for Ethics in Medicine, Health Professions and Health Care....Pages 170-172
Biblimed: A New Spanish Database in Clinical Medicine....Pages 173-176
Documentaliste Dans un Service D’information a Specialisation Medicale et Pharmaceutique....Pages 177-180
Need and Use of Toxicological Information in Occupational Health Service....Pages 181-181
Information for Pediatricians: A Need to be Satisfied?....Pages 182-185
Marketing Library Services to Practising Veterinarians....Pages 186-187
Meeting the Challenge of the Year 2000 — Information Support for Decision Makers in the Department of Health....Pages 188-190
Contents Tables of Biomedical Journals via E-Mail....Pages 191-193
Internet Access and Utilization in Biomedical Research at the Vall D’Hebron Hospitals....Pages 194-194
Setup and Use of the Web-Site of the Library KNAW....Pages 195-198
Silent Revolution in the Library: Electronic Media Replace Printed Products....Pages 199-202
OMNI: Quality Biomedical Networked Information Resources....Pages 203-205
Medical Networked Information in the Czech Republic....Pages 206-206
WEBIS, IBIS, AGMB, MEDIBIB-L: Internet Projects in Germany....Pages 207-209
Internet Didactic Network for the Master on Health Services Management and Administration....Pages 210-210
Recherche et Filtrage de L’information Dans la Bibliotheque Virtuelle....Pages 211-213
Online Drug Information System....Pages 214-214
Les Serveurs Web Dans le Domaine Pharmaceutique....Pages 215-218
Pharmweb — Pharmaceutical Information on the Internet....Pages 219-222
How Might Technology Help the Flow of Medical Information to and from Developing Countries....Pages 223-223
Health Information, Health Rights and the European Citizen....Pages 225-227
The Sick Person from Patient to Health Consumer: From Informed to Informer....Pages 228-230
Developing a Critical Appraisal Skills Programme for Consumer Health Information Services....Pages 231-233
FOCUS PDCA Quality Improvement Tool Used for Creating Family and Patient Library....Pages 234-238
A Health Library in a Health Centre....Pages 239-239
Health Promotion Strategies for the General Public....Pages 240-241
A New Professionalism for the Electronic Age?....Pages 243-245
From Tea Party to Global Networking; Experiences from 40 Years of Evolution....Pages 246-248
An International Job Exchange: An Experience Which Can Change Your Life....Pages 249-251
Educating Information Professionals: The Case for a Health Information Module....Pages 252-254
User Education as a Challenge for Professional Development....Pages 255-257
Knowledge and the Container....Pages 258-260
Co-Ordinating the Development of Library and Information Service Support in the New NHS....Pages 261-263
Education for a New Health Information Profession....Pages 264-264
Strategies of Choice of AD HOC Classification Numbers....Pages 265-266
Pharmaceutical Information Associations Active in Europe....Pages 267-270
The Second International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists....Pages 271-272
Information for Health: Access to Healthcare Information Services in Ireland....Pages 273-275
Portuguese Libraries and Information Centres in Health Care....Pages 276-277
BIOPIC: Belgian Information Officers of the Pharmaceutical Industry Club....Pages 278-278
Bibliometric Methods as Support for Health Management Decisions....Pages 279-281
Quantitative Aspects of the Management of Health Information....Pages 282-289
Barber’s Nomogram to Evaluate the Utilization of Data Banks on CD-ROM....Pages 290-290
A Quantitative Analysis of Spanish Biomedical Research....Pages 291-291
A Simple Instrument to Exploit Clinical and Scientific Activity....Pages 292-293
The Scientific Publications of the Faculty of Veterinary Science on Some CD-ROM Products....Pages 294-296
Cooperative Collection Development and Document Delivery in Hungary....Pages 297-297
Where is the Evidence — Teaching Health Professionals How to Find the Evidence....Pages 299-301
Support for Evidence-Based Medicine: Collaborative Teaching by Information Professionals and Clinicians....Pages 302-305
Who Needs Evidence-Based Health Care?....Pages 306-308
Missing Information: Some Issues Medical Librarians Should be Thinking about as They Bridge between Published Information and Delivery of Health Care....Pages 309-310
A Core Journals Selection for Evidence-Based Medicine....Pages 311-312
Ethical Quality and Pharmaceutical Manufacturer’s Literature....Pages 313-315
Information Dissemination 100 Years Ago: W.C. Roentgen and the Discovery of X-Rays....Pages 317-320
Evolution du Frontispice Dans les Ouvrages de Medecine du XVIème au XVIIIème Siecle....Pages 321-323
La Gravure Scientifique du XVème au XVIIIème Siecle Dans le Projet Dioscorides de L’universite Complutense de Madrid....Pages 324-329
Doctor, Chemist and Professional Ethics in XI and XII Century....Pages 330-333
Back Matter....Pages 334-335