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Elisad history and goals. Thomas ROUAULT. Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN 11th Elisad annual meeting Lisbon. EMCDDA 4-5 November 1999. The communication objectives. The process of the ELISAD creation and its evolution The added value of networking in the field of information and documentation
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Elisad history and goals Thomas ROUAULT. Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN 11th Elisad annual meeting Lisbon. EMCDDA 4-5 November 1999
The communication objectives • The process of the ELISAD creation and its evolution • The added value of networking in the field of information and documentation • Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level
Before Elisad... • Other network experiences • Existing info&doc centres in Europe • Toward Elisad creation…
Other network experiences • SALIS (Substance abuse libraries and information specialists)>1978 • EUSIDIC (European association of Information services)>1982 • EAHIL (European association for health information and libraries)>1985 • ICAA Information group
Existing information and documentation centres in Europe - 1988
Toward Elisad creation • Round table. Lyon March 1988 • Stockholm. Sept 21-22 1989. Working group of european documentation and information centres on AOD • Lyon. Sept 21 1990. Elisad creation
1988: Elisad creation • A human network • An institutional network • First meetings and constitution • Members • Main goals
Elisad action • Annual meetings • Services • Networking between members • Networking with other organisations
Elisad meetings • Elisad had many fine presentations in the past years. • What did we talk about: look at the overview and remember.
Founders • For the Elisad foundation they met in Stockholm
The first meeting: getting to know • 1988 LyonRound table meeting • 1989 Stockholm Foundation of ELISAD • 1990 Lyon Overview of AOD Information Centres • 1991 Stockholm Fugitive literature and current issues
Around a central theme • 1992 London Indexing systems for documentation in the Substance Abuse Field • 1993 Venice Grey Literature • 1994 Utrecht Resource sharing • 1995 Madrid Around the Quality Challenge of Information and Documentation Services
The last meetings • 1996 Oslo On Internet resources in the field of Alcohol and Drug Abuse • 1997 Torino On information and prevention • 1998 Paris The role of the information professionals in AOD Monitoring systems
Services • Directory • Proceedings
Communication • In the first years Elisad had a kind of a newsletter “Elisad News” • Here is the first issue
Networking • Workshops on collaboration projects • Glade • Ideas for joint actions • Project proposal Elisad-IDEA: Information and Documentation expertise on Addiction prevention
Information overview • Presentations at Salis • Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden • Overview European associations / D. Canestri
Developing information in the framework of European Community programmes • EMCDDA / REITOX • European Commission • European Council • Other international organisations
1988-2000: the revolution of the information field on AOD • New information content, new problems, new users • A technological revolution • New ways of networking
Information explosion • Alcohol & Drugs in center of social attention • EU creation includes differences in attitude towards AOD • More and more is published • More and more people are working in the AOD field
New technologies • Information retrieval systems • Databases • Distributed databases • Virtual libraries
Internet • E-mail • Remote access to large international databases (PubMed) • Remote access to member-databases (NDAPD, INDID, Gruppo Abele) • Web sites: http://www.geocities.com/aodlib • Mailinglist elisad@onelist.com
Networking • ICT enables much • ICT has still more promises than practices • Communication is fast, distances dissappear • But the language barrier remains
Added-value and future role for Elisad • Improve professional skills and techniques • Facilitating common projects • Expertise for EC work programmes • Qualitative knowledge on specialised information • Human network
Best practices • Improving professional skills and techniques has been done by Elisad for the past 11 years • We can work this out in a more structured way by comparing practices and trying to come to a common understanding
Expertise • Elisad joins professional information workers • Elisad joins information workers on AOD • Elisad joins European information workers
Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level • Project works priorities • users targeted • integrated services • relationship between information professionals • Coordination and links between projects
Project works priorities • Framework of the Virtual Library • Databases and Virtual library • Indexing tools versus thesaurus • Quality level • other projects ...
Users targeted • Information specialists • AOD professionals • policy and decision-makers • general public
European «keywords« for Integrated services • Standardization • reliability • shared work • subsidiarity
Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level • relationship between information professionals • Coordination and links between projects