8ICML Programme July 2-5, 2000 (London)

Wednesday 5th July 2000 9.00 - 10.30 Parallel Session 7
The National Electronic Library for Health (UK Health Libraries Group Session 5)
Richard Heseltine

Title to be annouced 

Director of Academic Services, University of Hull, Hull, UK

Veronica Fraser Competent and developing: professional development framework for healthcare librarians NHS Executive, London, UK
Claire O'Brien Creating the books for NELH Centre for Clinical Informatics, University of Cambridge, UK
Ana D Cleveland, Steven L MacCall, Irvine D Prather, Jerry T McKnight, Ian E Gibson, Larry Johnson & Jay Morrow The clinical digital libraries project: an experiment of the feasibility of providing large scale professional digital library services to clinical users University of North Texas, USA
The Visible Human Project: an International Imaging Resource (Medical Library Association Medical Informatics Section Session 3)
Michael Ackernan, Francesco Pinciroli, Roger D. Hersch & Andreas Pommert Panel presentations will be made on the vision, development, future plans, users and uses of the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
Products and Services to Support Evidence-Based Health care
Catherine Delvenne, Francoise Pasleau, Philippe Delvenne & Jacques Gielen Creation of a Web site about "Evidence-Based Medicine" University of Liege, Belgium
Gladys Faba & Maite Vallejo Allende Information use within the evidence-based medicine framework: a study in Mexico CENIDS, Mexico
Alison Weightman, John Lancaster, Nicholas Phin & Mala Mann The Health Evidence Bulletins Wales: signposts to the best evidence for healthcare University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
John Nixon, Boyka Stoykova, Jimmy Christie, Jos Kleijnen, Mike Drummond & Julie Glanville Using the National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database to make cost-effective decisions on competing healthcare interventions NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, UK
3rd International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) Session 6
Bruce Grainger A survey of symbols of medicine and veterinary medicine Macdonald Campus Library, McGill University, Canada
Gerdien de Jonge, Sandra Tatum, Erica van de Westhuizen, Mitusko  Williams Panel Discussion: Co-operation, Collaboration and Convergence in the new century  
Utilising Internet Technologies
Rudiger Schneemann Online technology and CD ROM: Which one will make it? Technische Universitat Berlin - HECLINET, Berlin, Germany
Linda Suk-Ling Murphy The complexity of accessing electronic licensed resources using WWW technology: what have we learned? University of California - Irvine, USA
Prue Deacon, Jill Buckley Smith & Stephanie Tow Using metadata to create navigation paths in the HealthInsite Internet gateway Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged care, Canberra, Australia
Catherine L Schell Prospective indexing in a bibliographic model for harnessing the Internet Medical Decisions Software Inc, Florida, USA
Managerial Challenges and Choice
Maria Teresa Astroza & Deyanira Sequeira Challenges in training new health professionals in Latin America Pan American Health Organisation, Washington DC, USA
Salvinija Kociene & Danute Kazlauskiene Medical libraries in the environment of healthcare reforms Lithuanian Library of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
Beryl Glitz, Claire Hasasu & Heidi T Sandstrom The focus group: a tool for program planning and decision making Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Janet S Fisher & Liisa Salmi Supplementing library budgets: a survey of development and fund raising practices in five countries Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, USA
Information Needs in the Pharmaceutical Environment (European Association of Health Information and Libraries -  Pharmaceutical Group Session)
Paul Woods An International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IFPMA) view of the use of the Internet International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
Carol Lefebvre & Anne Lusher 250,000 reports of randomized controlled trials as a contribution to evidence-based health care decision making in the new millennium: The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register UK Cochrane Centre, NHS R&D Programme, Oxford, UK
Jane Whittall Information management without walls SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals R&D, UK
International Collaboration in Professional Development
David Sheshelidze, Nunzia Bettinsoli Giuse, Randolph A Miller, H Kenneth Walker, Carol A Burns & Zviad Kirtava Training of future information professionals: a general model and an individual perspective Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
Terry Henner Training Internet trainers in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, USA
Donna Flake, Anita Verhoeven & Ioana Robu The Cunningham Fellowship: three international points of view Coastal AHEC Library, North Carolina, USA
National and Subject Bibliographies: work in progress 
Margaret Mathai The African Index Medicus: Challenges of creating a regional multipurpose health information resource WHO Africa Region, Harare, Zimbabwe
Lan Gao, Tiejun Hu & Danya Li Introduction to the development of the Chinese biomedical literature database Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China
Steve McDonald & Philippa Middleton Improving the international coverage of controlled trials: a story from Australia Australasian Cochrane Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Patricia Flor, Sigrun Espelien Aasen, Arne Jakobsson, Ingrid Mogset & Solveig Taylor A controlled vocabulary for nursing and allied health in Norway Telemark College, Porsgrunn, Norway
Wednesday 5th July 2000 11.15 - 12.15 Plenary Session 5. Theme: The Information Professional
Chair: Lois Ann Colaianni, formerly Associate Director, National Library of Medicine, USA Joanne Marshall University of North Carolina, USA
  Christine Deschamps President, IFLA
Wednesday 5th July 2000 2.00 - 3.00 ICML General Assembly and Closing Ceremony

Programming is subject to cancellation or change without notice.

Questions?  Contact John Van Loo 
<J.vanLoo@sheffield.ac.uk>

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