Health Literature, Library and Information Services HELLIS Network

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Health Literature, Library and Information
Services (HELLIS) Network
Anchalee Chamchuklin Information Management and
Dissemination Unit Department of Evidence and
Information for Policy WHO Regional Office for
South-East Asia, New Delhi, India November 24,
2004
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HELLIS Network

• HELLIS Network was founded by the WHO Regional
  Office for South-East Asia Region in 1980.

• The objective of HELLIS Network is To provide
  better information services to healthcare
  professionals by sharing resources among health
  science libraries in the region.

• Within the past two and a half decades, HELLIS
  has undergone several changes at the strategic
  level although the primary objective of HELLIS
  remains the same.

• Today, HELLIS is composed of over 350 network
  member libraries, spanning across 11 member
  states in the WHO South-East Asia Region.

• The future of HELLIS seems promising as HELLIS
  expands to be the WHO SEARO/WPRO Bi-regional
  Information Network covering all of Asia.

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HELLIS Network

• During its lifetime, HELLIS has experienced two
  IT Revolutions The computer revolution in 1980s
  and the Internet and Web Revolution in 1990s.

• Taking advantage of the IT revolution, HELLIS
  Network concentrates in building sustainable
  national capacities in management and
  dissemination of knowledge assets in member
  states.

• By the end of 1980s, major HELLIS Network
  libraries have been equipped with technical
  know-how, physical resources and knowledge
  assets, ready to enter the digital information
  age.

• During mid 1990s, major HELLIS Network libraries
  started disseminating their knowledge assets
  reaching out directly to users through Web
  technology.

• HELLIS spent several years in establishing
  international information standards among network
  libraries and in 2003, HELLIS information portal,
  www.hellis.org was launched by integrating
  knowledge assets from its network member
  libraries.

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HELLIS Network
WWW.HELLIS.ORG An Information Portal

• Launched in September 2003.

• HELLIS.ORG is a translation of HELLIS Network
  objectives into action.

• HELLIS.ORG performs knowledge sharing and
  knowledge dissemination functions.

• Knowledge sharing as Data Provider and Service
  Provider.

• Offline meta data sharing.

• Online metadata harvesting and repackaging.

• Online real-time access to knowledge resources.

• Knowledge dissemination as an Information Portal.

• Identification, harvesting, integration,
  clustering and dissemination.

• From HELLIS to HELLIS Asia-Pacific Network.

• Bi-regional cooperation between WHO SEA and WHO
  WP Regions.

• HELLIS Asia-Pacific will bring together
  knowledge assets from nearly all of Asia.

• HELLIS Asia-Pacific will become an important
  component of WHO GHL.

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HELLIS Network

• Since HELLIS is part of the WHO Family,
  knowledge assets of the HELLIS Network is part of
  the Global WHO assets.

• HELLIS welcomes sharing its assets with
  interested parties both within and outside the
  WHO.

• As medical librarians, we all have the
  responsibility to satisfy our users information
  needs and promote global health by providing
  premium information services to policy makers,
  administrators, health care workers, scientists
  and the general public.

• When it comes to knowledge sharing and
  dissemination, please consider HELLIS Network as
  your partner.

Thank You.
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