[LIS-Forum] New World Health Organization Library Databases Interface

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:32:58 +0000
From: Tomas Allen <tomasallen_who at hotmail.com>

** please excuse cross postings **

The World Health Organization Library is seeking your assistance.

Since our mandate is a global one, we need to insure that our library
database is responding to the needs of all types of library users worldwide.
The WHO Library will be upgrading the library database web interface in July
2004 and are seeking volunteers from around the world to assist in
pre-launch testing.

In addition to volunteering, we hope that readers of this list would "buddy"
up with a novice user from your library so that we have feedback from both
experts and novices.

If you are interested in testing the library database, please send an email
to

library at who.int
Please place "library database tester" in the subject heading.

We need to know
Your Name and if possible your "buddy" novice user's name and details
Expert (librarian/information specialist) or Novice
Country of Residence (where you will access the library catalogue)
Mother Language

Many thanks,
Tomas Allen
WHO Library


Further details

Testing will run through the month of July. You will only be asked to
respond to 10-15 simple questions that should take no more than 15  minutes.
We also hope that you can assist in obtaining feedback from the your "buddy"
novice tester.

About the library catalogue
The WHO Library and Information Networks for Knowledge (LNK) provides
comprehensive library and information services on WHO-produced recorded
information in print and other media. WHOLIS is the World Health
Organization library database available on the web. WHOLIS indexes all WHO
publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and
technical documents from 1985 to the present.

Many of WHO publications are available in full text pdf format through the
library database. This can be viewed at http://dosei.who.int/. We encourage
you to test the current database before July.



If you have problems accessing this database please contact Ms Helen
Heathcote at heathcoteh at who.int

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