ICML 9

9º Congresso Mundial de Informação em Saúde e Bibliotecas

Salvador, Bahia - Brasil, 20 a 23 de setembro de 2005

BVS4

4ª Reunião de Coordenação Regional da BVS

19 e 20 de setembro de 2005

National Library of Health - Mexico (Virtual modality)

Participantes:

National Library of Health - Mexico (Virtual modality)

The General Coordination of the National Institutes of Health (CGINSalud) looks for to give fulfilment to the attachment line that exactly says: “To establish the lineaments to create, operate and use, under fairness criteria a Network of Libraries and Information Canters in Health” that appears including in the strategy “To create a Masterful Plan of infrastructure, equipment and services of support for the Investigation in Health”.
The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC by its English abbreviations) it does not represent certain collections solely, of organizations equally determined, but that, in many cases represents resources that are not to him own (pages, Web sites, etc.) along with acquired others, but that physically do not belong to him (electronic subscriptions to full text data bases, electronic journals and periodicals publications).
By before exposed, it is necessary reunite the Historical Riches of the Hea lth Secretary and the National Institutes of Health, in order to count with an organism for establishes the policies for the classification and conservation of the documentary riches, institution in charge of the safekeeping, arrangement, increase and restoration of the documentary riches and publications of these institutions, putting them within reach of all the users in a single place.
It is required to make historical investigations, using fundamentally the documentary riches of the Health Secretary and the National Institutes of Health.
The National Library of Health – Mexico (Virtual modality) will be the collection of information objects and services that will attend the users in the handling, organization and presentation of those objects, direct or indirectly available through electronic and digital means.
The National Library of Health – Mexico (Virtual modality) will have the responsibility to reunite, organize, preserve and spread, electronics and digitally, the bibliographi cal and documentary memory in the medicine areas, health and compatible sciences, generated and acquired by the Health Secretary and the National Institutes of Health, and mainly, norm, uniform, coordinate and orient, the resources and electronic services developed by the libraries, information and documentation centres of the INSalud.
National Library of Health – Mexico (Virtual modality) constitutes the first stage and will base long term for the construction and organization of the National Library of Health – Mexico, it will have the responsibility to reunite, organize, digitize, preserve, study and spread, the bibliographical and documentary memory in the medicine areas, health and compatible sciences, of Mexico, with the purpose of supporting the scientific, educative and cultural development for all the country.