Silvia Sastre

Biblioteca Virtual de Ciències de la Salut de les Illes Balears · Gerència d'Atenció Primària de Mallorca.

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 fun...

Although new information retrieval systems (search engines, metasearch engines, databases, etc.) continually appear, the daily work of information professionals leaves little time to evaluate them. As a result, on numerous occasions a system is used, and even recommended, without knowledge of its functions and the adequacy of its search algorithm....

Introduction: This communication explains the creation of the collective monograph catalogue of the Balearic Islands Public Health System. Objectives: Before this project the libraries of the regional Public Health System had no automated catalogue of these monograph batches. We knew that this was a big handicap for our libraries, and thus we nee...

Introduction: The majority of health sciences libraries are inside the world of public administration. This determines that they have to present their activity results to justify their budgets, and in some cases their existence. The use of contracted information resources for virtual libraries is expensive for the administration, which needs to kno...

Introduction: We want to show how subscription, management and access centralization of the journals from the libraries belonging to the Public Health System from the Balearic Islands Region has contributed to a marked increase in scientific quality resources contract. Objectives: In 2003 the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands...

Introduction: In this document we describe the creation, functioning and evaluation of the Centralized Supply Document Service of the Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands. Objectives: After the setting up of the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands the idea of a Centralized Supply Document Service was proposed with the...

Aim It is not a novelty that all libraries want to obtain as many users as possible and for this the hybrid library is going to virtual places. But if we really want to demonstrate this user increase we need statistical information as a guarantee. And also, every librarian needs the statistical data to check that the management results will attain...

Introduction: A strategic plan is a system designed to concentrate resources and align the efforts of the organization on issues that are a strategic priority in order to achieve significant improvements and help its vision. In this context, the strategic plan 2009-12 was made in the Virtual Health Sciences Library of the Balearic Islands, as well...