At the Board meeting in February 2003, the Board decided that we need to know more of what our members from different geographical regions think is the most important “burning issues” that we, as an association, should be focusing on. After discussion, the Board agreed as a first step to run a special Focus Groups session with EAHIL Councillors attending the Oslo workshop this June.
The lively and thought provoking Focus Group session of the EAHIL Council Meeting in Oslo and the attendance rate and engaged discussion at the EAHIL General Assembly clearly demonstrate that EAHIL members are interested in the future of EAHIL.
The next stage in gathering information was a survey of all EAHIL and non-EAHIL members to find out what they think are the important issues for EAHIL. The result from the Focus Group has been used as one input in the survey. The survey is based on CHLA/ABSC (Canadian Health Libraries Association / Association des bibliotheques de la santé du Canada) Survey of Canadian Health Science Information professionals 2002. See http://www.chla.absc.ca/survey/chalasurvey.pdf. Some questions have been deleted of changed and some have been added. CHLA/ABSC (http://www.chla.absc.ca/indexe.html) has generously given EAHIL permission to base the EAHIL survey on the CHLA/ABSC survey
The survey instrument is divided up into several sections:
1. Introduction
2. Continuing education & professional development
3. Issues
4. EAHIL newsletter, EAHIL web & EAHIL discussion list(s)
5. Virtual EAHIL
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