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A Special Sister Library Program
Crosses the Ocean
(US and Latvia) byby
Velta Poznaka Velta Poznaka Donna Flake Donna Flake Library Director Library Director Library Library Director Medical ResearchDirector Medical Research
Coastal AHEC Library of Coastal AHEC Library of LatviaLatvia Wilmington, NC, USA Wilmington, NC, USA Riga, Latvia Riga, Latvia
Sister Library Partnership of the
International Section
of MLA AND The Medical
Research Library of Latvia
Dr. Joseph Daugman
Vicki Croft
Medical Research Library of Latvia
Holberton Hospital Medical Library
Antigua, Caribbean
Library Director The Library
Our Sister Library Initiative
Nordic Association
Latvians in the
United States Latvian Welfare Associations The American Latvian Association The Latvian Association of
Physicians and Dentists
My Library – Coastal My Library – Coastal AHECAHEC
Lessons We LearnedLessons We Learned
1. Dedication of all people involved 2. Administrator who oversees library
needs to be supportive3. Only select one Sister Library at a
time4. Get support of a group that has a
vested interest in the country, or geographic area of the Sister Library.
Lessons We LearnedLessons We Learned (Cont.)(Cont.)
5. Thank the library vendors who supported the project many times in many ways
6. I was personally enriched by this program
7. Making lifelong friendships
The Greatest Deal
project idea was not just forgottenand left on paper,
but is being implemented with great enthusiasm
1999
• the number of electronic books – 0 • data bases – Medline on CD• some journals on CD• the average time to obtain a journal
article from another library through interlibrary loan - 14-60 days
• place for reading room 32m2
Free Electronic Document Delivery
• medical libraries in the US and Canada
• in 2 – 4 days
ILL - I am pleased• 46 medical
libraries in the US and Canada
• in 2 – 4 days
ILL Difficulties
• Technical problems • Checking time
Databases for our Library:
• MDConsult • Stat!Ref • UpToDate
DB and Users
• Branches without Internet• are not taught information literacy • less fluent in English
DB and librarians• Having these databases makes our
librarians study more, to learn how and what we can get from each database so we can teach our users to use them.
• We are finding ways to break our doctors’ wall of indifference, and to become interested in electronic sources of information.
• We tell them about the enormous possibilities they now have, but we are mindful not to show that sometimes we know more than the doctors know.
Shipment of Medical Books and Periodicals
• 170 boxes of books and periodicals -200 books and 5800 periodicals
2001 Science Citation Index Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine.
• All was paid by Latvians in the USA. (Milwaukee and Cleveland )
New shipment
Shipment of Medical Books and Periodicals
duplicate copies
changes
Measuring
Can we measure the friendship by the amount of money donated, or the number of
books or databases? Each time when we take a look at the books,
journals or we tell about databases, we with thankfulness and fondness are thinking
about people, who have worked so hard and so unselfishly
to help our library
We are thankful for the tremendous and incredible job the MLA Sister Library Initiative has done, and for spreading goodwill and for
sharing knowledge