1. Elisad history and goals Thomas ROUAULT. Marianne VAN DER HEYDEN 11th Elisad annual meeting Lisbon. EMCDDA 4-5 November 1999

2. The communication objectives n The process of the ELISAD creation and its evolution n The added value of networking in the field of information and documentation n Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level

3. Before Elisad... n Other network experiences n Existing info&doc centres in Europe n Toward Elisad creation…

4. Other network experiences n SALIS (Substance abuse libraries and information specialists)>1978 n EUSIDIC (European association of Information services)>1982 n EAHIL (European association for health information and libraries)>1985 n ICAA Information group

5. Existing information and documentation centres in Europe - 1988

6. Toward Elisad creation n Round table. Lyon March 1988 n Stockholm. Sept 21-22 1989. Working group of european documentation and information centres on AOD n Lyon. Sept 21 1990. Elisad creation

7. 1988: Elisad creation n A human network n An institutional network n First meetings and constitution n Members n Main goals

8. Elisad action n Annual meetings n Services n Networking between members n Networking with other organisations

9. Elisad meetings n Elisad had many fine presentations in the past years. n What did we talk about: look at the overview and remember.

10. Founders n For the Elisad foundation they met in Stockholm

11. The first meeting: getting to know n 1988 Lyon Round table meeting n 1989 Stockholm Foundation of ELISAD n 1990 Lyon Overview of AOD Information Centres n 1991 Stockholm Fugitive literature and current issues

12. Around a central theme n 1992 London Indexing systems for documentation in the Substance Abuse Field n 1993 Venice Grey Literature n 1994 UtrechtResource sharing n 1995 Madrid Around the Quality Challenge of Information and Documentation Services

13. The last meetings n 1996 Oslo On Internet resources in the field of Alcohol and Drug Abuse n 1997 Torino On information and prevention n 1998 Paris The role of the information professionals in AOD Monitoring systems

14. Services n Directory n Proceedings

15. Communication n In the first years Elisad had a kind of a newsletter “Elisad News” n Here is the first issue

16. Networking n Workshops on collaboration projects n Glade n Ideas for joint actions n Project proposal Elisad-IDEA: Information and Documentation expertise on Addiction prevention

17. Information overview n Presentations at Salis n Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden Overview European information resources on Internet / M. van der Heijden n Overview European associations / D. Canestri Overview European associations / D. Canestri

18. Salis Award

19. Developing information in the framework of European Community programmes n EMCDDA / REITOX n European Commission n European Council n Other international organisations

20. 1988-2000: the revolution of the information field on AOD n New information content, new problems, new users n A technological revolution n New ways of networking

21. Information explosion n Alcohol & Drugs in center of social attention n EU creation includes differences in attitude towards AOD n More and more is published n More and more people are working in the AOD field

22. New technologies n Information retrieval systems n Databases n Distributed databases n Virtual libraries

23. Internet n E-mail n Remote access to large international databases (PubMed) n Remote access to member- databases (NDAPD, INDID, Gruppo Abele) n Web sites: http://www.geocities.com/aodlib http://www.geocities.com/aodlib n Mailinglist elisad@onelist.comelisad@onelist.com

24. Networking n ICT enables much n ICT has still more promises than practices n Communication is fast, distances dissappear n But the language barrier remains

25. Added-value and future role for Elisad n Improve professional skills and techniques n Facilitating common projects n Expertise for EC work programmes n Qualitative knowledge on specialised information n Human network

26. Best practices n Improving professional skills and techniques has been done by Elisad for the past 11 years n We can work this out in a more structured way by comparing practices and trying to come to a common understanding

27. Expertise n Elisad joins professional information workers n Elisad joins information workers on AOD n Elisad joins European information workers

28. Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level n Project works priorities n users targeted n integrated services n relationship between information professionals n Coordination and links between projects

29. Project works priorities n Framework of the Virtual Library n Databases and Virtual library n Indexing tools versus thesaurus n Quality level n other projects...

30. Users targeted n Information specialists n AOD professionals n policy and decision-makers n general public

31. European «keywords« for Integrated services n Standardization n reliability n shared work n subsidiarity

32. Open questions on the development of info/doc AOD resources at European level n relationship between information professionals n Coordination and links between projects