7. Program for The Delegates from Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal
on A Study Visit On Oritent Advance Modern Technology in HELLIS
(LIBRARY)
4 – 8 October 2010
At the College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University
Thailand
Session on Library activities related to the HELLIS network especially IT
Visit at Department of Medical Service Library, Ministry of Public Health,
Nonthaburi,
October 5, 2010, 13.00 pm. -16.00 pm.
An Oral Presentation On Implementation of Technology Web 2.0 Service
in Department of Medical Service Library
Department of Medical Service Library was involved in HELLIS on
The Inter-library Loan Services that we sent a request on journal papers
through ThaiNatis that is one of a member of HELLIS,
ThaiNatis is a HELLIS National Focal Poiont, Thailand. Locate at
Library and Information Center, Mahidol University, Phuttamonthon Sai 4
Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, 73170.
As we was searching and found that there are many commercial library
system in the market were expensive to purchase, while we found out a new
system, we are lucky, that Science and Technology knowledge Services
(STKS) Thailand, (they play role as a Library and Information Center of
National Science and Technology Development Agency, STKS worked with
many library all over Thailand, training librarian and supporting the
network) STKS come to convince us to use an open-source system. And the
name chosen was KOHA. And recommended us to cooperate the hospital
library that under DMS as a network that would at least take care of the
library cost, which started with 10 libraries. The new system had already
done an OPAC, that is the first of modern technology we used in DMS
library
8. - 2 -
The second one , using social media to communicate externally, the
technology chosen was Weblog to pro-active stance on electronic article
journal, all is full text in thias, in weblog we used many technology web 2.0
application that support all software on weblog. Applications that we was
chosen was wordpress is a blog publishing software
Youtube.com the site for upload and sharing video
Slideshare.net the site for sharing presentation
Issuu.com for publishing your publications look fantastic online.
Convert your documents to interactive flip books that can be shared
anywhere on the web.
RSS Feed is technology that allow information to be feed in
other platform and allow people know contents is update.
We write introduction the content in a story telling style to encourage
the reader to understand all context before open a full text in a good looking
flip album style as a real book
The third one, E-book Database, technology chosen was flip book
album, it is a research collection we was digitized by outsourcing
That all using a free software, no pay any dollars, that take care of a big
the library cost.
The next step in the action plan in next year (2011) we will combine all
three database intergrated in one-search on Weblog.
