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National Health Electronic Library: implementation of the pilot study Dr. Kia PakravanMinistry of Health, IranWHO Collaborating Center for Health and Biomedical Information (HBI)[email protected]

Cairo,23-25 November 2004

Fourth Regional Conference on EMR Health Sciences Virtual Library:Role in e-Learning and Building the Information Society

Introduction To create a digital information environment which will offer equitable

and easy-to-use access to a core set of information resources (Information for all)

Project focuses on electronic content, building upon librarians' traditional strengths

Project seeks to provide information resources to all libraries Many public & private companies must be involve The 1st phase implemented as a pilot study with a limited budget for:

Databases Computer hardware and software Research and development for a common user interface Enhancement of state-wide resource sharing mechanisms Document delivery services



Objectives Enhancing local libraries, HIC project

Training Access to the Internet

A package for connecting the databases Gateway and unique user interface Library holdings & Unified Medical Dictionary Resource sharing tools & Document delivery service



Method of implementation: HIC Changing the closed system libraries to open

systems Installation of library software in all medical

libraries specially the central libraries Designing a website for each libraries and connect

the library data to web Establishing at least 256 kb/s internet connection

for each library Improving the quality and quantity of the electronic

data sources parallel to purchasing paper based resources



Method of implementation: HIC Upgrading the computers and network

hardware and software. Improving the quality of service to end-users

in libraries by training the librarians and users

36 central medical library have been changed to Health Information Centers



Method of implementation: connecting the databases Online databases, the core of the project Each library have a database which including the

bibliographic information of resources Contract with private company for designing a

package Every library with online access to current

information of others Programming: Delphi & Client Server Method Databank: SQL Server Running environment: Win98, 2000, NT, XP



Method of implementation: holdings & Unified Medical Dictionary Library holdings:

Journals: year of publication Volume Number Subject ISSN Title

Books Title Edition ISBN Publisher Name of library Author Call # Subject

Creating thesaurus: 22141 record Creating Unified Medical Dictionary in Farsi: 15000

words out of 150,000



Method of implementation: Document Delivery Service Ariel Software® Choosing 3 medical libraries in the country with

criteria Fill the questionnaire of Medical Library Directory

Form EMLIBNet Sent the Inter-Library and Document Delivery

Agreement of each medical library to EMRO The list of journals holdings in MS Excel sheet have

been sent to EMRO according to the specifications of the Union List Database



Method of implementation: Gateway An Internet-accessible gateway Links to online databases Library information Governmental information Local health projects Training calendar



Method of implementation: user interface Same interface for all users with different OS ANSI standards establish a common set of

protocols for information requests and retrievals and will form the basis for developing a common user interface

Local libraries will have 2 options using this interface or using the native interface provided by the database provider

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