Health Information — New Possibilities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Plenary Sessions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Communication is a Bilateral Process

      • Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

      Pages 2-4

   3. Health Informatics and Librarianship

      • Michael Carmel

      Pages 5-7

   4. Undergraduate Education in Health Informatics

      • David Bawden

      Pages 8-10

   5. Making Decisions in the Year 2000: Realising the Potential of Consumer Health Information Services

      • Bob Gann

      Pages 11-14

   6. L’Information Médicale À La Portée De Tous

      • Patricia Mesmacque, Brigitte Parraud, Tù-Tâm Nguyen

      Pages 15-17

   7. Looking Toward The Future While Working in The Present

      • Lois Ann Colaianni

      Pages 18-20

   8. The Future of Information Provision: Managing the Process of Change

      • John Cox

      Pages 21-23

   9. The Future of Medical Journals: An Editor’s View

      • Magne Nylenna

      Pages 24-27

   10. The National Medical Library (NML), Prague On its Way to Internet

       • Otakar Pinkas

       Pages 28-30

   11. Profil D’un Specialiste De L’information: Le Documentaliste Hospitalier

       • Jean-Philippe Accart

       Pages 31-34

3. Networking & Resource Sharing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Developing A Regional Model for Sharing Library Resources with Particular Reference to the Health Information Needs of Rural Communities

      • Stephen Pritchard

      Pages 36-39

   3. The International Torture Documentation Network (ITDN)

      • Svend Bitsch Christensen

      Pages 40-42

   4. Sharing Library Resources

      • Márta Virágos

      Pages 43-45

   5. A European Clearing House on Health Systems Reforms:the New Possibilities of A Europe Wide Approach to Information Exchange

      • Lorraine M. Bate

      Pages 46-49

   6. A Low Cost Union Catalogue:The School of Medicine of Turin (Italy) experience

      • Valentina Comba, Anna Maria Giordano, Uberto Moreggia, Paola Petroni, Paola Santimaria

      Pages 50-52

   7. Evaluating Global Information Access and Requirements of Cooperative Research Centres in Australia

      • Josephine M. Marshall, Lisa M. Belkin

      Pages 53-55

   8. The Hidden Costs of Networking

      • Margaret Haines

      Pages 56-58

The 1994 conference of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries drew together an exceptional group of invited speakers and contributed papers. Speakers came from every part of Europe, from N. America, and even from Australia, and almost all the papers presented are collected in this volume. They represent an important summary of the state of the art in libraries and information services in the medical and health areas and are a rich source of advice, assistance and information for everyone working in related fields.
Most of the themes concentrate on the important growth areas of the profession: computer-based information services, networking (especially the Internet), and CD-ROMs. More general topics are not ignored, and the book contains many interesting contributions on identifying the needs of library users and evaluating how well these are being met. There is also an important section on the history of medicine.

• growth
• health
• history of medicine
• libraries
• medicine

• British Medical Association, London, UK

  Tony McSéan

• United Medical and Dental School of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London, UK

  John Loo

• British Medical Association Library, London, UK

  Euphemia Coutinho

Policies and ethics