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Elisad history and goals
Thomas ROUAULT.
Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN
11th Elisad annual meeting
Lisbon. EMCDDA
4-5 November 1999
The communication objectives
The process of the ELISAD creation and its evolution
The added value of networking in the field of information and documentation
Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level
Before Elisad... Other network experiences Existing info&doc centres in
Europe Toward Elisad creation…
Other network experiences SALIS (Substance abuse libraries
and information specialists)>1978 EUSIDIC (European association of
Information services)>1982 EAHIL (European association for
health information and libraries)>1985
ICAA Information group
Existing information and documentation centres in Europe - 1988
Centres Country creation
CAN Sweden 1901>1982
ALKO Finland 1946
ISDD UK 1968
NIAD Netherlands 1968GruppoAbele
Italy 1975
ISPA Switzerland 1975
NDPADP Norway 1980
TOXIBASE France 1986
FAD-INDID Spain 1986
Toward Elisad creation
Round table. Lyon March 1988 Stockholm. Sept 21-22 1989.
Working group of european documentation and information centres on AOD
Lyon. Sept 21 1990. Elisad creation
1988: Elisad creation A human network An institutional network First meetings and constitution Members Main goals
Elisad action Annual meetings Services Networking between members Networking with other
organisations
Elisad meetings
Elisad had many fine presentations in the past years.
What did we talk about: look at the overview and remember.
Founders
For the Elisad foundation they met in Stockholm
The first meeting: getting to know 1988 Lyon Round table meeting 1989 Stockholm Foundation of
ELISAD 1990 Lyon Overview of AOD
Information Centres 1991 Stockholm Fugitive literature
and current issues
Around a central theme
1992 London Indexing systems for documentation in the Substance Abuse Field
1993 Venice Grey Literature 1994 Utrecht Resource sharing 1995 Madrid Around the Quality
Challenge of Information and Documentation Services
The last meetings
1996 Oslo On Internet resources in the field of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
1997 Torino On information and prevention
1998 Paris The role of the information professionals in AOD Monitoring systems
Services
Directory Proceedings
Communication
In the first years Elisad had a kind of a newsletter “Elisad News”
Here is the first issue
Networking
Workshops on collaboration projects
Glade Ideas for joint actions Project proposal Elisad-IDEA:
Information and Documentation expertise on Addiction prevention
Information overview
Presentations at Salis Overview European information re
sources on Internet / M. van der Heijden
Overview European associations / D. Canestri
Salis Award
Developing information in the framework of European Community programmes
EMCDDA / REITOX European Commission European Council Other international organisations
1988-2000: the revolution of the information field on AOD
New information content, new problems, new users
A technological revolution New ways of networking
Information explosion
Alcohol & Drugs in center of social attention
EU creation includes differences in attitude towards AOD
More and more is published More and more people are working
in the AOD field
New technologies
Information retrieval systems Databases
Distributed databases Virtual libraries
Internet
E-mail Remote access to large
international databases (PubMed) Remote access to member-
databases (NDAPD, INDID, Gruppo Abele)
Web sites: http://www.geocities.com/aodlib
Mailinglist [email protected]
Networking
ICT enables much ICT has still more promises than
practices
Communication is fast, distances dissappear
But the language barrier remains
Added-value and future role for Elisad
Improve professional skills and techniques
Facilitating common projects Expertise for EC work programmes Qualitative knowledge on
specialised information Human network
Best practices
Improving professional skills and techniques has been done by Elisad for the past 11 years
We can work this out in a more structured way by comparing practices and trying to come to a common understanding
Expertise
Elisad joins professional information workers
Elisad joins information workers on AOD
Elisad joins European information workers
Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level
Project works priorities users targeted integrated services relationship between information
professionals Coordination and links between
projects
Project works priorities
Framework of the Virtual Library Databases and Virtual library Indexing tools versus thesaurus Quality level other projects ...
Users targeted
Information specialists AOD professionals policy and decision-makers general public
European «keywords« for Integrated services
Standardization reliability shared work subsidiarity
Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level
relationship between information professionals
Coordination and links between projects