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WHO Libraries

WHO Libraries . A presentation to the KMS Department Yvonne Grandbois 11 April 2006. Global Community. The WHO Library System is a global network that operates as a community: From the Regional Offices and Geneva To the Country Offices

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WHO Libraries

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  1. WHO Libraries A presentation to the KMS Department Yvonne Grandbois 11 April 2006

  2. Global Community • The WHO Library System is a global network that operates as a community: • From the Regional Offices and Geneva • To the Country Offices • To the libraries in member states, be they national, academic, medical, public, business or special libraries • And back again • We are everywhere

  3. AFRO LIBRARY

  4. AFRO LIBRARY • The AFRO LIBRARY has published two databases online : - African Index Medicus. It is available at : http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int/ - AFROLIB. It is available at : http://afrolib.afro.who.int/ • The Library is now involved in the HINARI project (www.who.int/hinari). AFRO Librarians have trained the users in Rwanda, Senegal and Mali. • GIFT is now used to prepare the INFODIGEST (Awareness bulletin:. http://afrolib.afro.who.int/Infodigest.htm ). The users are trained in the Multimedia Centre within the library. • the Library works with African medical librarians and Documentalists in the WHO country offices through AHILA-net. A network with AIM Focal points has been created. Eight new computers and scanners have been sent to them. • Evaluation of the Blue Trunk Library project was done in some countries such as Burundi and Burkina Faso.

  5. EMRO LIBRARY

  6. EMRO LIBRARY • Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region • Includes 80291 Records, annual growth of 12,000 records; • Have added 30000 abstracts since November 2005; • Searchable on Google Scholar; • Includes 329 journals from the Region. • EMRO Union Catalogue for Health Sciences Journals • Includes 5823 Journals with link to IMEMR and full text; • 50 libraries signed agreement for inter-library loan; • Over 320 libraries from the region participate in it. • EMRO Journal Information Directory • Includes the bibliographic data for 329 journals published in the Region as well as the editors details; • Includes132 electronic journals from the Region; • EMR Medical Journals Consortium • Full online access to 287 journals, this will increase to be around 600 by the end of April 2006; • Accessible by EMRO, WR Offices and country projects • Four years of back files. • Professional development of medical librarians • Regional Conferences; • Training of WHO librarians; • Training of nationals in medical libraries; • Arabic Medical Subjects Heading (MeSH) • Arabicisation of all entries with their annotations; • Being prepared in XML for publishing on the Internet; • Will be used to index EMRO site and other Arabic health sites;

  7. EMRO LIBRARY • EMRO Institutional Digital Memory • Includes 6869 records (IC Meetings, RC, Technical Reports with Full-Text (Arabic-English-French) • Blue Trunk Library • 477 BTLs distributed in 9 countries in the Region • Training of operators (Egypt and Yemen); • Adding Arabic materials; • Evaluation. • EMRO Publications portal • Full citation of all EMRO publications with Full-Text link if available • HINARI support • Training in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Yemen; • Translation the training kit into (Arabic and French); • Internet connections. • Knowledge hubs in WR Offices • Allocation of space and site preparation; • Provision of collections and systems; • Training of staff; • Official opening ceremony by RD and Ministers of Health. • GIFT Support • Access in EMRO and all WR offices • Briefing to staff • Integration with other electronic resources

  8. EURO LIBRARY

  9. EURO LIBRARY • Developed a digital library on the intranet • Maintains the European component of the WHOLIS database • Supplies documents/articles to WHO staff • Establishes and collaborates with network of 38 WHO documentation centres – support including new equipment and development of web guidelines for their WHO web sites • Uses the GIFT package as a training tool for WHO staff to retrieve scientific information • Helped set up lists of institutions in the Region that can benefit from the HINARI project

  10. INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) LIBRARY

  11. INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC) LIBRARY • Preserving IARC’s institutional memory through the digitization of IARC scientists’ publications. • Training new staff, visiting scientists and students in the variety of information resources and tools available to them. • Promoting GIFT funded resources which are a valuable contribution to the ongoing work of the Agency.

  12. PAHO (AMRO) LIBRARY

  13. PAHO (AMRO) LIBRARY • Transformation of Documentation Centers into Knowledge Centers across the Organization • Web Developments • PAHO Web – Intranet - News Agency • PAHO Directors Blog • PAHO Regional Forum Web Site • Health in the Americas Web Site • PAHO Multilingualism initiative • Technical cooperation on Information Dissemination across the Region

  14. PAHO (AMRO) LIBRARY • PAHO KM Continuous education • Digital Literacy project • Continuous distance learning for the Region • Lectures at PAHO HQ and Web Cast • Institutional development • Celebration of the 80th anniversary of PAHO Library (HQ) (everybody is invited) • Implementation of an Emergency Operation Center at PAHO HQ Library • Support WHO Global Health Library project in the Region • Support WHO HINARI Initiative (Guyana, Haiti)

  15. SEARO LIBRARY

  16. SEARO LIBRARY • Integration of full text documents to Research Report bibliographic database in SEAR • Creation of SEA regional database on dissertations with full text links - 800 records • Development of image archive databases in the areas of: - HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Women in SEAR (4,500 high resolution images with captions) • Technical support for GIFT and HINARI • Human Resource Development: - National/Regional training workshops in information management and dissemination - Public Health Fellowship awards in Information management and dissemination

  17. WPRO LIBRARY

  18. WPRO LIBRARY • Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) -- An informal consultation on the development of the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) was held in WPRO on 30-31 March 2006, where medical journal editors, medical librarians, and information officers from China, Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Philippines discussed, inter alia, the selection criteria and guidelines for including journals into the regional medical index. HINARI -- Workshop for Learning Centre Supervisors of the Pacific Open Learning Health Net (POLHN) and Medical Librarians in the Pacific was held in Suva, Fiji on 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2005; -- SEARO/WPRO bi-regional workshop was held in Bangkok on 9-13 May 2005 where WPRO supported one participant each from Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and Viet Nam; -- National HINARI workshops are proposed to be held in Papua New Guinea, Laos, and Mongolia during the third and fourth quarters of 2006.

  19. WPRO LIBRARY • Blue Trunk Library -- In the Western Pacific Region, 36 BTLs had been distributed to developing member countries. Just recently, five BTLs were distributed to identified district health centres in the Philippines. More of these will be purchased. • Support to WHO Country Offices -- Training on information management was conducted on 6-9 Dec 2005 in Suva, Fiji for staff from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu who are designated to manage their office libraries. -- WPRO Library staff would visit country office libraries, upon request, to assist in organizing their library collection.

  20. WHO MEDITERRANEAN CENTRE FOR VULNERABILITY REDUCTION (WMC), Tunis - Documentation Centre

  21. WHO MEDITERRANEAN CENTRE FOR VULNERABILITY REDUCTION (WMC), Tunis - Documentation Centre • The WMC Documentation Centre in Tunis was created in 2004. It serves as a knowledge and information resource, assisting not only WMC staff but also a global network of experts in social mobilisation and communication. • It is a decentralised WHO library, supporting various WHO activities worldwide through provision of technical documents and other tools as necessary. • Specific reference and technical documents of WMC • Our Communication-for-Behavioural-Impact (COMBI) CD is a resource for health programme managers and implementers involved in social mobilization programmes. • Planning social mobilization and communication for dengue fever prevention and control: a step-by-step guide (WHO/CDS/WMC/2004.2). • Objective people’s world: 24 photographers in action. This catalogue addressing themes of social exclusion has been produced by the WMC in the framework of the project “International Debate/ Open Services”. • For more information about WMC, click on http://wmc.who.int

  22. WHO Library Geneva 4 World Programmes • WHO Libraries • Global Health Library • GIFT • WHO Information Product Provision

  23. The WHO Libraries Global Community • We all do this: • Manage library and information networks • Refer clients to the right source, the right person • Send out intelligence searchlights • Respond to global queries • Provide training and distance learning • Manage multilingual databases • Welcome visiting scientists, researchers, health workers

  24. Global Community • and this: • Systematic reviews, research assistance • Set up knowledge centres, knowledge hubs • Ensure the digital memory of our Organization • Maintain our websites, blogs, forums and intranets • Organize lectures onsite and web cast • Set up image databases

  25. Global Community • and this: • Global Health Library • GIFT access and training • HINARI support • Mobile Libraries training and advocacy • Regional Virtual Health Sciences Libraries • WHOLIBNET

  26. KM and WHO Libraries • A study from the Judge Institute of Management of Cambridge University recommended that WHO develop a Centralised Point of Entry where partners can obtain the latest information on a given issue, and then be directed to the key personnel in this area. • It recommended that this be implemented via an expanded WHO Library Research Desk, because of its current knowledge role and mandate and relative independence. Strengthening WHO partnerships through knowledge management: focus on the World Bank and the European Commission, Geneva, 2004, pp 21-22

  27. KM and WHO Libraries • Dealing with one's culture and forming a strong knowledge-sharing organization are key elements to implementing a knowledge management plan • "Our advantages as knowledge management players are significant … librarians are predisposed to sharing information." Librarians as knowledge management agents, the Technofile, Aug/Sept 1999, p.63

  28. Library 2.0 • "The concept of Library 2.0 builds upon all that has been best about libraries to date, harnesses technological potential and community capability in order to deliver valuable, valued and world-class services directly to those who stand to benefit from them, whether they (ever) physically enter a library building or not. Do libraries matter? K. Chad and P. Miller, Version 1.0, November 2005

  29. Thanks and stayed tuned next week for the Global Health Library A product of the WHO family of partnerships

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