Czech Medical Libraries in the Czech Republic´s EU Accession Year Helena Bouzková National Medical Library Eva Lesenková Institut for Postgraduate Medical Education Prague

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 The Medical Care in the Czech Republic Population 10, 2 Mio Density of population 131 per /km2 Gross domestic product 7,36 % Health establishments 26 270 Physicians and pharmacists 40 037 Health service personnel 110 291 Expenditure on health services 5, 96 Mio Euro …Year 2003 Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

14 Regions of the Czech Republic

The Network of Public Information Services in Healthcare Types of Health Establishments Faculty Hospitals Medical Faculties Scientific and Research Workplaces Hygienic Establishments Educational Institutions Physiotherapeutic Institutions Others Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 Medical Libraries in the Czech Republic in 2003 Number of Medical Libraries 149 Information Resources – Number of Volumes 2 850 000 Number of Copies of Foreign Journal Titles 3 426 Loans 1 090 395 Requests for Retrieval Services 19 669 Number of Copies 3 666 000 Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

National Medical Library Prague Builds up the collection of Czech and foreign medical literature and related sciences literature Provides the Library Information Services for research, development and education of professional and laic public (loan, reprographic, publication and other) Manages the centre of Interlibrary Loan Service and International Interlibrary Loan Service - Documents Delivery Processes and makes accessible the national medical bibliography - Bibliographia medica cechoslovaca (BMC), union catalogue, the Czech version of the Medical Subject Headings thesaurus - MeSH Carries out the functions of a WHO documentation centre Administers the collections of the Museum of Medicine Cooperates with national and international information institutions. Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

The Program of Cooperation Standardization ( Protocol Z 39.50, UNIMARC, ISO 2709, MARC 21, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) Information Resource Sharing Service Sharing Education International Cooperation Professional Organization ( The Czech Society for Medical Informatics and Scietific Information of the Czech Medical Society of Jan Evangelista Purkyně) Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Resource and Information Sharing Internet Union Catalogues of Foreign Medical Literature Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service Acquisition Coordination Digital Library MEDVIK and project MedGate Consortia Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Accessible Information Resources Primary information resources - journals and books, including electronic versions – on-line consortial accesses, Ultra Access) Secondary information resources - Medical Libraries Catalogues (printed and electronic ones) Databases – Bibliographia medica čechoslovaca – CD ROM, on-line NML WEB Medline, EMBASE, EBM Reviews, HealthStar, Web of Knowledge, OECD Health Data, Micromedex, CINAHL etc.) Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Electronic Journals – multilicences Service name Availability Number of accessed titles EIFL Direct NL 550 ProQuest 5000 300 Science Direct K 260 SpringerLink 180 Ideal Online Library 83 Wiley InterScience 51 OVID 15 Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 MedGate Project The Subject Information Gateway for research and development in medicine The Project is financed by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Period 2004 - 2008 8 institutions participated in this project Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

MEDGATE - partial target To build up and develop the MedGate as the tool of hierarchical and horizontal integration on the national and international level and respect and follow national and international standards To build up and develop the integrated information system Medical Virtual Library (MEDVIK) including the infrastructure of the information resources for medicine and for resulting services… Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

MEDVIK – partial target To share and optimize the use of the journal and database resources To make accessible the present databases and create the new ones consisting of evaluated Internet resources for medicine To digitize and publish the specialized information collections To evaluate and try to find a solution to possibility of interconnecting MedGate to projects of distance education in the field of medicine Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 Continual Education The Project “New Approaches to Continual Education of Medical Librarians and Users in the Czech Republic” The Aim – to gain skills in using of Information and Communication Technologies for library-information services and for training users Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 ICT Curriculum ELC – Electronic Communication IDT – Tools for Internet Searching (Internet Detection Tools) IPD – Internet Data Presentation WEB – Creation of WEB Pages BMC – Biomedical Communication EWR – WEB Resources Evaluation GRW – Projects Writing EBM – Evidence Based Medicine Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 ICT Curriculum   Basic level Middle level For advanced participants Main subjects ELC1 ELC2 ELC3 IDT1 IDT2 IDT3 IPD1 IPD2 IPD3 WEB1 WEB2 WEB3 Additional subjects BMC EWR GRW EBM Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Developing the conceptual framework of Czech medical libraries Period 2005-2010 Ministry of Health Cooperation with other public libraries in the Czech Republic registered uder the act number 257/2001 Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Possibility of Partnership in the CR and Abroad The Uniform Information Gateway (UIG – SFX, METALIB) - National Library of the Czech Republic and Charles University The Portal STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) – the State Technical Library The Union Catalogue CASLIN The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Hungary, Budapest, October 2004 See you in Prague… Hungary, Budapest, October 2004

Contact HELENA BOUZKOVÁ National Medical Library Sokolská 54 121 32 Prag 2 Tel. :+420 296 335 943 Fax :+420 296 335 959 URL : http://www.nlk.cz bouzkova@nlk.cz EVA LESENKOVÁ Institut for Postgraduate Medical Education The Scientific Information Department Budějovická 15 141 00 Prag 4 Tel. : + 420 261 092 470 Fax : +420 261 261 791 URL : http://www.ipvz.cz lesenkova@ipvz.cz