European Association for Health Information and Libraries
 Sixth European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries
 Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 22-27, 1998
 Libraries without limits: changing needs - changing roles
 http://www.med.ruu.nl/eahil.html

Call for Papers and Posters

Abstracts can be submitted by the Abstract submission form
http://www.library.knaw.nl/cgi-bin/nph-eahil.pl

Themes and subthemes of the conference on which oral or poster
presentations are invited:

a. Scientific communication: the change

      electronic versus print
      formal vs informal communication
      public vs restricted access
      copyright, authorship, editorship, peer review

b. New roles and new services for information professionals:

      intermediaries
      tailor-made services
      consultant-librarians
      cybrarians
      shared resources
      one-person library

c. The library without limits:

      expanding information services
      telemedicine
      cooperation
      intranet
      integrated information management systems

d. Measuring success:

      Evaluation and quality assurance
      library performance
      benchmarking
      management tools
      public relations

e. Empowering the end-user:

      user education
      problem-based learning
      consumer & public health information
      distance learning

f. Evaluating information:

      Internet resources
      collection development
      evidence-based medicine

g. Learning from the past:

      history of medicine
      history and trends in medical and health librarianship

Proposals are invited for papers and posters related to the themes of the
conference. Abstracts of not less than 200 and not more than 400
words in English (or French with an English translation) must be submitted
before September 30, 1997 and must be accompanied by a
short curriculum vitae of the first (and presenting) author.
Abstracts can be submitted by the Abstract submission form

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