ICML 2009: Continuing Education: HINARI/ Internet Resources for Health Information Professionals: Training the Trainers

Presenter/s: Mr Lenny Rhine, Coordinator, Medical Library Association (USA)/ Librarians without Borders 'E-Library Training Initiative'

Biography: Lenny Rhine is University Librarian Emeritus, University of Florida, USA. For 30 years, he was collection development librarian at the Health Science Center Library (UF). Starting in 1992, Lenny began working with the University of Zambia Medical Library and subsequently with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA). He has conducted numerous workshops and presentations predominantly on IT applications for the delivery of health information in low-income countries.
Lenny currently is the compiler of the Essential Health Links, a gateway of 700+ websites for health practitioners in low-income countries. He also is a trainer and training materials developer for HINARI, a collaborative World Health Organization and STM Publishers' project that enables institutions in developing and emerging countries to gain access to over 5000 biomedical and health journals.

Session:

Background: In the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has noted the need for improved access to current and relevant health information in low-income countries. One of the principal projects to foster this is the HINARI project (see biography). This workshop will be geared toward ICML participants from HINARI eligible institutions with a second group of participants being individuals in industrialized countries that have institutional linkage to organizations in these eligible countries. Both groups would benefit from such training and serve as facilitators for training and usage of HINARI.

Course Structure/Material Content: The course structure will be approximately ½ lectures and ½ 'hands on'/ computer-based activities. The principal topics will include health information on the Internet, an overview of searching skills and website evaluation, HINARI website, PubMed (as applied to HINARI) and marketing/repackaging/training skills for the optimal use of these resources. The various training materials also will be reviewed.

This session is free to all HINARI participants and those working with HINARI libraries.