It’s World Book Day on March 1st 2012. An opportunity for raising funds in your library to help Book Aid International provide books for school libraries in sub Saharan Africa.
Check out suggested activities as well as educational resources at the Book Aid International website.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
The Cochrane Collaboration which produces and distributes high quality systematic reviews to support evidence informed decision making in clinical care and health policy is carrying out a review of its own success and effectiveness.
Advances in technology, increased user expectations and evolving publishing models all influence how published research and knowledge are produced, displayed and accessed.
As an essential part of Cochrane’s review of Cochrane, to be delivered at the mid year meeting in Paris in April 2012, it is calling for you to complete a survey and give your views on how it should respond to changing customer needs and expectations.
See the scope of this review and the survey on their website.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo has been working on the Unified Medical Dictionary over the last 30 years. The latest version of it was published a few months ago.
The dictionary is multilingual Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Chinese is coming !
It is available in several formats, including CD-ROM, printed book and e-book. For details please contact Dr Kassem Sara at Sarak@emro.who.int
There is also an online version on the web.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
HIPNet ( Health Information and Publications Network ) which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) facilitates collaboration among organisations that produce and disseminate print and electronic information in the field of international health.
Annually it conducts a library mailing that distributes print materials and CD-ROMs from USAID- funded collaborating agencies to libraries in developing countries. HIPNet is now seeking interested libraries ( N.B. libraries only, not individuals ) that wish to receive materials in reproductive health and family planning in English, French or Spanish. These materials are state of the art, evidence- based findings in reproductive health and family planning, covering various topics.
Please contact Heather Johnson at hjohnson@jhuccp.org if you represent a library and are interested in joining the library mailing list to add to your collection.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
Please don’t be intimidated by what may sometimes seem the rather formal and academic nature of this blog. Jean and I are both retired librarians and get our material from the announcements in websites which are by their very nature dry and factual. Wouldn’t you like to contribute some of your day to day experience of working in medical and health libraries, the problems and difficulties you face and your opinions on what works and what doesn’t work in the provision of health information ?
Just jot a few lines and send them in an e-mail to me -Nigel Palmer nigepal@hotmail.com ( February and April ) or to Jean Shaw jgreigshaw@gmail.com ( March ) and we’ll do the rest. If we think anything needs changing we’ll clear it with you first.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
The Library and Information Association of South Africa ( LIASA ) will be hosting its 14th annual conference at the Durban International Conference Centre 1st-5th October 2012.
The International Conference Centre is one of the most advanced facilities in the world.
For more details and for news of South African library week go to LIASA website.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
THET ( Tropical Health and Education Trust ) has a new chief executive, replacing Pia MacRae. She is Jane Cockerell who joined THET in January 2010 as Director of Programmes. Jane has a decade of experience in public health programmes and has worked in countries including Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan and Sierra Leone. She has worked for a range of organisations, including GOAL, Merlin, International Rescue Committee and was executive director of African Revival before joining THET.
Nigel Palmer, Phi
