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 elisad@onelist.com

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