WHO Libraries

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WHO Libraries

• A presentation to the KMS Department
• Yvonne Grandbois
• 11 April 2006

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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

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AFRO LIBRARY
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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.

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EMRO LIBRARY
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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

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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.

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EURO LIBRARY
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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