Bibliosalut, la Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias de la Salud de las Islas Baleares: 3 lustros en constante evolución

At the beginning of 2003, Bibliosalut was inaugurated in the Balearic Islands, becoming one of the first autonomous virtual libraries in the field of health sciences created in Spain during the first decade of the 21st century. After more than fifteen years, the evolution of the autonomous model of library management configured in that region has been analysed. It has developed from the coordination of 9 libraries, mostly hospitals, to the management of a virtual and unique scientific library for all the professionals of the public health system of the Balearic Islands. An extraordinary change for these health professionals, and even more so in an archipelago, which has meant the democratization of access to relevant scientific information. The virtual library is today an essential tool for health care, education and research. A potential panorama for the “twenties” is also envisioned, as being full of opportunities, mainly revolving around the open science and information and communications technology, where the need for us to reinvent ourselves as professionals of information and documentation, and thus create new resources and services to meet the new needs of the health professionals, will be critical. Finally, the importance of continuing to invest in interlibrary cooperation, and especially with other regional virtual libraries, needs to be firmly emphasized

Bibliosalut, la Biblioteca Virtual de Ciencias de la Salud de las Islas Baleares: 3 lustros en constante evolución

At the beginning of 2003, Bibliosalut was inaugurated in the Balearic Islands, becoming one of the first autonomous virtual libraries in the field of health sciences created in Spain during the first decade of the 21st century. After more than fifteen years, the evolution of the autonomous model of library management configured in that region has been analysed. It has developed from the coordination of 9 libraries, mostly hospitals, to the management of a virtual and unique scientific library for all the professionals of the public health system of the Balearic Islands. An extraordinary change for these health professionals, and even more so in an archipelago, which has meant the democratization of access to relevant scientific information. The virtual library is today an essential tool for health care, education and research. A potential panorama for the “twenties” is also envisioned, as being full of opportunities, mainly revolving around the open science and information and communications technology, where the need for us to reinvent ourselves as professionals of information and documentation, and thus create new resources and services to meet the new needs of the health professionals, will be critical. Finally, the importance of continuing to invest in interlibrary cooperation, and especially with other regional virtual libraries, needs to be firmly emphasized

Desenvolupament de la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud

Xarxes de biblioteques sanitàries; Cooperació bibliotecària; Biblioteques virtuals de ciències de la salutHealth library networks; Library cooperation; Virtual Library of Health SciencesRedes de bibliotecas de salud; Cooperación bibliotecaria; Bibliotecas virtuales de ciencias de la saludREBISALUD busca potenciar la cooperació entre biblioteques virtuals de salut, mitjançant la coordinació i elaboració de distintes estratègies i projectes així com fomentar la cooperació activa de tots els seus membres, en els distints aspectes i problemàtiques de les biblioteques virtuals de salut.REBISALUD seeks to promote cooperation between virtual libraries of health, through the coordination and development of various projects and strategies and promote active cooperation of all its members in the different aspects and problems of virtual health library. .REBISALUD busca potenciar la cooperación entre bibliotecas virtuales de salud, mediante la coordinación y elaboración de distintas estrategias y proyectos, así como fomentar la cooperación activa de todos sus miembros, en los distintos aspectos y problemáticas de las bibliotecas virtuales de salud

The Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands: A regional project for libraries cooperation.

Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands (Bibliosalut) is a regional project carried out in collaboration with the Regional Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection and the Health Service of the Balearic Islands (Ib-salut), through the Balearic Islands Biomedical Documentation Service. The Virtual Library Mission is to facilitate the most important scientific information to the public health professionals of the Balearic Islands, by using the new information and communication technologies, in order to contribute to the improvement of medical care quality, teaching, research and health managemen

5 años cooperando en Rebisalud, la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud

Introduction and objectives Five years after the creation of Rebisalud, the Virtual Health Libraries Network (http://www.rebisalud.org), which brings together nine autonomous virtual libraries specializing in the health sciences, a first assessment of this entity’s functioning has been made. Rebisalud’s mission is to enhance library cooperation through the coordination and development of strategies and collaborative projects, with the aim of optimizing the dissemination and exchange of information in the field of health. Nowadays, one of its main objectives is to become an interlocutor in the field of knowledge management between the different organizations with health competences. Material and methods Rebisalud coordinators carried out a SWOT analysis in order to reflect on where the network was located, both internally (weaknesses and strengths) and externally (threats and opportunities), to detect applicable points of improvements. Results Among the results of the SWOT analysis, several strengths stand out such as the fact that each of the network assembly members has autonomous representation or the possibility of jointly negotiating the contracting conditions of information resources through the sales club. Also, weaknesses such as the fact that virtual libraries have different levels of development or lack quality indicators, and threats, such as the high cost of bibliographic resources or the changing face publishing market. Finally, opportunities, such as those derived from the open science and all that this entails, from development of institutional repositories to the management of research data. Conclusions New opportunities are emerging around the health sciences libraries of health sciences which can facilitate the sharing of experiences, knowledge, and problems through a cooperation network such as Rebisalud, which enriches the quality of the different autonomic library projects. It is necessary to develop specific, reliable, validated and available indicators for all virtual health sciences libraries. Rebisalud is always open to any autonomous community virtual library that wishes to become a part of this cooperation project

5 años cooperando en Rebisalud, la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud

Rebisalud; Cooperació bibliotecària; Biblioteques virtuals de ciències de la salutRebisalud; Cooperación bibliotecaria; Bibliotecas virtuales de ciencias de la saludRebisalud; Library cooperation; Virtual libraries of health sciencesTras 5 años desde la creación de Rebisalud, la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud (http://www.rebisalud.org), se realiza un primer balance del funcionamiento de esta entidad, que aglutina 9 bibliotecas virtuales autonómicas especializadas en ciencias de la salud. La misión Rebisalud es potenciar la cooperación bibliotecaria, mediante la coordinación y elaboración de estrategias y proyectos de colaboración, encaminados a optimizar la difusión y el intercambio de la información en el ámbito de la salud, siendo uno de sus principales objetivos el de constituirse en interlocutor en materia de gestión del conocimiento en ciencias de la salud ante los distintos organismos con competencias en el ámbito de la salud

5 años cooperando en Rebisalud, la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud

Rebisalud; Cooperació bibliotecària; Biblioteques virtuals de ciències de la salutRebisalud; Cooperación bibliotecaria; Bibliotecas virtuales de ciencias de la saludRebisalud; Library cooperation; Virtual libraries of health sciencesTras 5 años desde la creación de Rebisalud, la Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Salud (http://www.rebisalud.org), se realiza un primer balance del funcionamiento de esta entidad, que aglutina 9 bibliotecas virtuales autonómicas especializadas en ciencias de la salud. La misión Rebisalud es potenciar la cooperación bibliotecaria, mediante la coordinación y elaboración de estrategias y proyectos de colaboración, encaminados a optimizar la difusión y el intercambio de la información en el ámbito de la salud, siendo uno de sus principales objetivos el de constituirse en interlocutor en materia de gestión del conocimiento en ciencias de la salud ante los distintos organismos con competencias en el ámbito de la salud

Thematic web portals for different user profiles in a virtual health science library: Bibliosalut's experience

Normally users of a virtual health library have different professional profiles (physicians, nurses, pharmacists...) and/or they are from different specialties (Primary Health Care, Internal Medicine, Oncology...). This poster shows the experience of the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands (Bibliosalut) of creating thematic web portals, which aims is to improve the experience of our users to browse and query to information resources and services of the virtual library and to increase its use. Different information resources that Bibliosalut offers were selected for each thematic web portals, according to the interest and frequency of use that they may have for users of professional profiles. From the backend of the Bibliosalut Content Management System (Joomla), the necessary modules were created to present the selected information in various thematic web portals: featured resources, e-journals and e-books of each specialty that are available in the virtual library, journals of each specialty with impact factor ISI, clinical practice guidelines, useful links, etc., as well as featured information of library services, such as training courses from the Users Training Service of Bibliosalut aimed at specific groups. Nowadays, we are working to offer more thematic web portals of others specialties to Bibliosalut users and in the future we are going to evaluate their satisfaction about the usefulness of creating these thematic web portals. The result is a bilingual website (Catalan and Spanish), which consists of a main home page (www.bibliosalut.com) with a sort of thematic home pages, and customized URLs depending on the specialty or the professional profile of the users of the virtual library (e.g. Bibliosalut for Primary Health Care professionals: www.bibliosalut.com/ap). In addition, it includes several sections with information resources (data bases, e-journals, e-books, and the like) available for each specialty in Bibliosalut. We believe that the presentation of information in a virtual health library, highlighting the most useful resources and the most used by professionals who have a specific profile or a specific specialty, will help the usability of the web, it will improve the experience of our users to browse and it will increase/promote the use of information resources and services of Bibliosalut

The Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands: A regional project for libraries cooperation.

Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands (Bibliosalut) is a regional project carried out in collaboration with the Regional Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection and the Health Service of the Balearic Islands (Ib-salut), through the Balearic Islands Biomedical Documentation Service. The Virtual Library Mission is to facilitate the most important scientific information to the public health professionals of the Balearic Islands, by using the new information and communication technologies, in order to contribute to the improvement of medical care quality, teaching, research and health managemen

A set of quality indicators for eHealth libraries

This is a cooperation project whereby the group of eHealth library members of Rebisalud (eHealth Libraries Network – http://www.rebisalud.org) have developed a core set of quality indicators to measure and evaluate the services provided by the newly implemented eHealth libraries in Spain. This core set will help us to understand objectively the functioning of the different services provided by the libraries, as well as to facilitate the comparison of our libraries to learn from each other in order to improve our services. The norm ISO 11620 (Library performance indicators) was revised. First, we developed a classification scale to screen the indicators focusing on virtual libraries; three independent reviewers rated each indicator with that scale. Second, they calculated independently to assess their feasibility. Third, a core of 17 indicators was selected. Finally a consensus was reached among the leaders of the eHealth libraries members of Rebisalud. Results: With the classification scale only 20% of ISO’s indicators were selected, with most indicators related to non-virtuality like physical facilities being excluded. We found important problems with definitions or concepts, as well as problems with the terms used among our libraries. As a result of the whole process 20 indicators were defined. They are classified in terms of: structure (human and economic resources, electronic collection), process (use of resources, access) and results (efficiency, user satisfaction). Each indicator is described by name, code, definition, aim, method, interpretation, and information source. The cooperation has been very productive, and will allow us to make a continuous exercise of benchmarking among the eHealth libraries of Rebisalud. However, more work has to be done because we still need to construct a user satisfaction questionnaire