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ELISAD: Networking Excellence in Information and Documentation on Substance Abuse

Explore the history, goals, and achievements of ELISAD - a network enhancing information exchange in substance abuse fields. Discover how networking adds value, open questions on resource development, and the role of ELISAD in the European landscape. Learn about past meetings, the founders, services offered, and future objectives. Dive into the revolution in AOD information, the impact of new technologies, and the importance of networking in the digital age.

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ELISAD: Networking Excellence in Information and Documentation on Substance Abuse

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  1. Elisad history and goals Thomas ROUAULT. Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN 11th Elisad annual meeting Lisbon. EMCDDA 4-5 November 1999

  2. 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

  3. Before Elisad... • Other network experiences • Existing info&doc centres in Europe • Toward Elisad creation…

  4. 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

  5. Existing information and documentation centres in Europe - 1988

  6. 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

  7. 1988: Elisad creation • A human network • An institutional network • First meetings and constitution • Members • Main goals

  8. Elisad action • Annual meetings • Services • Networking between members • Networking with other organisations

  9. Elisad meetings • Elisad had many fine presentations in the past years. • What did we talk about: look at the overview and remember.

  10. Founders • For the Elisad foundation they met in Stockholm

  11. The first meeting: getting to know • 1988 LyonRound table meeting • 1989 Stockholm Foundation of ELISAD • 1990 Lyon Overview of AOD Information Centres • 1991 Stockholm Fugitive literature and current issues

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Services • Directory • Proceedings

  15. Communication • In the first years Elisad had a kind of a newsletter “Elisad News” • Here is the first issue

  16. Networking • Workshops on collaboration projects • Glade • Ideas for joint actions • Project proposal Elisad-IDEA: Information and Documentation expertise on Addiction prevention

  17. Information overview • Presentations at Salis • Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden • Overview European associations / D. Canestri

  18. Salis Award

  19. Developing information in the framework of European Community programmes • EMCDDA / REITOX • European Commission • European Council • Other international organisations

  20. 1988-2000: the revolution of the information field on AOD • New information content, new problems, new users • A technological revolution • New ways of networking

  21. 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

  22. New technologies • Information retrieval systems • Databases • Distributed databases • Virtual libraries

  23. 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 elisad@onelist.com

  24. Networking • ICT enables much • ICT has still more promises than practices • Communication is fast, distances dissappear • But the language barrier remains

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. Expertise • Elisad joins professional information workers • Elisad joins information workers on AOD • Elisad joins European information workers

  28. 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

  29. Project works priorities • Framework of the Virtual Library • Databases and Virtual library • Indexing tools versus thesaurus • Quality level • other projects ...

  30. Users targeted • Information specialists • AOD professionals • policy and decision-makers • general public

  31. European «keywords« for Integrated services • Standardization • reliability • shared work • subsidiarity

  32. Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level • relationship between information professionals • Coordination and links between projects

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