ITALY: Medical Librarian isn’t a legally recognized profession in Italian National Health Service. • Hundreds of biomedical libraries in NHS, most are little libraries. Only 7. 71% out of 506 library personnel (as resulting from the census) has librarian’s curriculum. No specific education for medical librarian in the schools and in the universities. No National Network (Sources: Questionnaire: G. Cognetti; Data/BDS Census : R. Aprea ) SBBL • BDS (Health Librarians Documentalists NHS) • GIDIF RBM (Group of In Lombardia: local network SBBL (Regional Law, 1994). SBBL co-ordinates 16 important medical libraries. More than 100 medical libraries use the SBBL’s services (Union Catalogue etc)
USA : A SUPER LIBRARIAN Pyramidal organization similar to that of Russia. The National Library of Medicine co-ordinates thousands of medical libraries (National Network of N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C Libraries of Medicine) USA: MLA Medical Library Association (1890) and many other associations in the field NLM NN/LM SERHOLD/DOCLINE: ca. 3000 medical libraries (USA/CANADA) exchange, free of charge, ca. 2, 5 million documents per year. They also partecipate in OCLC. • Questionnaires: 12 • Bolivia, Brazil, Canada(3), Cuba, Mexico (2), Puerto Rico, USA(3) • Respondents: none • Source of information: Professional literature Bull Med Libr Assoc 87(3) 1999; 88(3)2000; WEST INDIES: Medical Science Library - Trinitad “is a small, new library. . . : 3000 mq, seat 800…” Bull. MLA 88(3)2000: 255
RUSSIA: A SUPER LIBRARIAN (source Bull MLA 88: : 2000) Pyramidal organization, similar to that of USA: The Russian State Central Scientific Medical Library co-ordinates the network of other medical libraries. Soyuzmedinform consortium produces the database Russian Medicine (over 150 russian medical journal indexed) Russia: : 40 Schools in Library RSCSML SOYUZMEDINFORM Science and a Special School for Medical Librarianship in Leningrad. (Bull MLA 79(3)1991) JAPAN: Medical Librarian isn’t a INDIA : A SUPER LIBRARIAN: Ranganathan and English influence? • Different professional roles legally recognized • Different courses of study • Medical Libraries in most hospitals • Medical Library Association of India and many others library associations • Government finances networks legally recognized profession. No specific education. Medical Libraries only in some hospitals Japan Medical Library Association. Only local networks A S I A • Questionnaires: 8 • China, India (2) Israel, Japan(2) Pakistan+Russia. Respondents: 2 India: O. P. Verma - Central Council for Research in Homoepathy, Japan: Noriko Taira - Health Sciences Univerity of Hokkaido Library
EUROPE: “There are librarians working within the Public Health Service System, but they are not specialized/accredited/trained as health care information specialists, and the profession itself is not on the list of specialization stipulated by law “I. Robu. Questionnaire/ROMANIA UK is well organized: register, Library Association/ Health Libraries Group (2000 members), cooperation and networks. LITNOR : (ca. 40 medical libraries (Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark) exchange articles. Sourc: Internet E A H I L Nordic Association for Medical and Health Information bringing together the five national associations (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland). Health Libr Rev 1998 15(1): 29 - Spain: Coordinatora de documentaciò biomedica (since 1983)/Union catalogue
AFRICA: A poor continent with few medical libraries well-organized? AHILA : African Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa Source: Questionnaires : 7 Ghana, Kenya (2) Namibia, Uganda, Zimbabwe (2) Respondents: 1 Zimbabwe Helga Patrikios. - University of Zimbabwe Medical Library ( 7 professional staff : 4 degrees, 3 diplomas in library science) : Zimbabwe: only two medical libraries. Qualification required: degree (bachelor level) or postgraduate diploma, or MA or MSc in library science
. . . In the ocean of health. OCEANIA the solitar navigator information needs to bequestionnaires: 4: Australia(3), New Zealand. Sent helped by a professional librarian…. Resondents: none OCEANIA Questionnaires 4: Respondents: none Gaetana Cognetti Australia(3), New Zealand.
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