a special sister library program crosses the ocean (us and latvia) by by velta poznaka donna flake...
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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
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Sister Library Partnership of the
International Section
of MLA AND The Medical
Research Library of Latvia
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Dr. Joseph Daugman
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Vicki Croft
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Medical Research Library of Latvia
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Holberton Hospital Medical Library
Antigua, Caribbean
Library Director The Library
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Our Sister Library Initiative
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Nordic Association
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Latvians in the
United States Latvian Welfare Associations The American Latvian Association The Latvian Association of
Physicians and Dentists
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My Library – Coastal My Library – Coastal AHECAHEC
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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.
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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
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The Greatest Deal
project idea was not just forgottenand left on paper,
but is being implemented with great enthusiasm
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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
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Free Electronic Document Delivery
• medical libraries in the US and Canada
• in 2 – 4 days
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ILL - I am pleased• 46 medical
libraries in the US and Canada
• in 2 – 4 days
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ILL Difficulties
• Technical problems • Checking time
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Databases for our Library:
• MDConsult • Stat!Ref • UpToDate
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DB and Users
• Branches without Internet• are not taught information literacy • less fluent in English
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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.
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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 )
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New shipment
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Shipment of Medical Books and Periodicals
duplicate copies
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changes
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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
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We are thankful for the tremendous and incredible job the MLA Sister Library Initiative has done, and for spreading goodwill and for
sharing knowledge