n° 14, June 2004 : 1 MagnificentMagnificent representationrepresentation ofof ElisadElisad atat thethe TOC The Salis meeting SalisSalis 20042004 annualannual conferenceconference A member: CeSDA Websites stories Hana Sovinova, Czech Institute of public health News Publications Captions: Jorunn Moen, Sirus, and Anne Singer OnlineDocs Agenda From Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 April, the 26th annual Salis conference took place in the impressive surroundings of the Berkeley City Club. This year’s focus could be characteri- sed using the slogan « Making waves for change ». Salis has successfully crossed the stormy sea and from now on, it is necessary to « make waves » for the benefit of matters such as the very topical situation around ETOH and the efforts done to save it. range of fields and specialisations tobacco related issues covered. were represented, which allowed She also mentioned the « Lund the current problems of alcohol, case», the story of a smoker who tobacco and other drugs to be sued, without success, the tobac- presented from various points of co industry. view. During the course of nine full sessions, a wide range of The role of information in Czech quality and informed advice was tobacco control.- Hana Sovinova provided. Special negotiations from the Czech National institute were dedicated to the preparation of public health spoke about the of strategies and procedures as to tobacco use both in adult and The conference was held how to effectively proceed in youth, the influence of cigarette at the Berkeley City Club, advertising and promotion and connection with ETOH. originally named «Berke- the important role of information ley Women's City Club». to curb these adverse trends. For the sake of information, I am The club was designed mentioning below the names of by Julia Morgan (1872- the full sessions and individual Alcohol issues, policy, presentations. and resources (part 1) 1957), one of the world's • Who drinks most of the alcohol first female architects, Tobacco issues, and hazardous amounts: the poli- and opened in 1930 as a HE ELISAD representation trends and policy cy implication.- Thomas Green- residence and social club was really impressive this field, director of the Alcohol for professional women. year: more participants • Tobacco prevention: policies, T research, and tobacco industry research group, spoke about the Since 1962, the club is making an appearance from drinking patterns and appropriate open to both women and Europe than from Canada! interference.- Cynthia Hallet, executive director of the Ameri- prevention policies such as men. strengthening of social norms, Were present: delegates from cans for non-smokers’ rights discouraging heavy alcohol Sirus, Norway (Jorunn Moen), foundation spoke about the signi- The City Club was a per- consumption and restricting mar- Toxibase, France (Thomas ficant growth of smoke free fect surrounding for a keting of alcohol beverages focu- Rouault), DrugScope, UK provisions. Despite this, the big group of professionals sed on heavy drinkers. (Christine Goodair), Iada, Israel proportion of the population is like Salis, where - as was (Jaffa Tzubery) and NIPH, not protected from passive smo- New technologies said during the conferen- king. Tobacco companies tactics Czechia (Hana Sovinova). and resources ce - the women are many This represented around 20 % of undermine steadily the public in ATOD Information and strong, and the men the total number of participants. health efforts for smoke free few and handsome ! All participated actively in the environment. • Digitalisation lessons learned meeting. from the tobacco control digital Special thanks to Andrea • Documentation on tobacco in library.- Kirsten Neilsen, project rst The conference programme was Norway.- Jorunn Moen, head of manager, Tobacco control digital Mitchell (1 column) prepared very carefully and with the Sirus library, Norway, presen- library, UC San Francisco, gave Salis executive director, great forethought. In addition to ted the library’s important role in an overview of the project related who did a wonderful job Salis members, a further ten lec- documentation in the AOD field to digitalisation of tobacco indus- in creating a successful turers were invited. Thus a wide and the growing proportion of try documents. Acquired expe- annual meeting. n° 14, June 2004 : 2 new website dedicated to the sub- US data on substance abuse and Center for the study of law and stance abuse and fetal alcohol mental health. enforcement policy, Pacific insti- spectrum disorders (FASD). This tute for research and evaluation, website features a searchable • The invisible internet.- Clare described the NIAAA’s new database of over 3000 items. She Imholtz, librarian, Center for sub- Alcohol policy information system gave some tips for searching, stance abuse research, University website, showed how to navigate research methods and database of Maryland, spoke about the huge it, and discussed its benefits and development. amount of useful resources on the pleas for users. web, which are not accessible by Information science using general search engines such • The many uses of enriched the- TOC and service: as Google. The invisible internet sauri and ontologies in the ATOD The Salis meeting keeping perspective is much bigger than the visible. field.- Dagobert Soergel, College She mentioned the limitations of of information studies, University • Providing information services A member: CeSDA general search engines and the of Maryland, discussed different and reshaping scholarly commu- differences between them. Tools ways of using thesauri and onto- Websites stories nication: current issues and for finding information on the logies. They include not only intersection.- John Ober, director News invisible web were discussed. organisation of bibliographic of Education and strategic inno- databases, but also expert systems Publications vation at the California digital • ATOD information services at for diagnosis and for advising on OnlineDocs library (University of California) the crossroads: maintaining our drug abuse treatment, design of Agenda discussed new trends in collabo- autonomy in a changing world.- prevention programmes, research ration, organisation, infrastructu- Sheila Lacroix, library coordina- etc. Many of these uses can be re, and publishing based on tor of the Centre for addiction facilitated through the Semantic recommendations of the National and mental health, discussed the web. science foundation to finance suf- rience might be useful for libra- changing conditions for the disse- ficiently availability of digital rians who decide to undertake an mination of information. Libraries • Life after ETOH : Nancy Wins- resources. electronic library. are forced to use new technolo- tanley, manager of information gies, share resources, and accept services, CSR Inc., NIAAA library. • GIS: the changing landscape of • SAMHDA: online access to data prevention.- Barbara Seitz de and analysis.- JoAnne McFarland restrictions as regards security. A big issue of this conference Martinez, head librarian and O´Rourke, senior researcher and The autonomy is being chipped was the closing down of ETOH, director of the Geographical archivist from Substance abuse away. the wellknown database run by information system (GIS), Indiana and mental health data archive, Alcohol issues, policy The National Institute on prevention resource center, spoke University of Michigan, gave an and resources (part 2) Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism about benefits of using GIS for overview of resources freely (NIAAA) for more than 30 years. prevention specialists, helping available from the SAMHDA. • Underage drinking and the Stickers with « Save ETOH » them to make better decisions They archive and disseminate alcohol policy information system had been made and were disse- and take strategic actions targeted data files for secondary analysis. (APIs): knowing how to use the minated among the participants. on specific populations on a local She de-monstrated an innovative resource.- James F. Mosher, levels. online data analysis system (DAS), which allows users to • Linking science to service conduct statistical analysis of the Drug policy and through web technology. The SAMHDA data directly on the its discontent (part 1) SAMHSA FASD center for excellen- website. SAMHDA archives major ce.- Samantha Helfert, web/net- • Making sense of student drug work manager, Northrop testing: why educators are saying Grumman IT health, presented the no.- Judith K. Appel, director of legal affairs, Drug policy alliance, spoke about the federal govern- ment effort to implement widely drug testing in schools. Research findings show that a random tes- Hana Sovinova, National Jorunn Moen, Sirus, Institute of Public Health Norway, Elisad Chair, of the Czech Republic, and Christine Goodair, was the official Elisad DrugScope, Elisad board representative at the member, speaking in the meeting. She spoke very nice environment on the role of information built by this feminist in the Czech tobacco architect. control. n° 14, June 2004 : 3 TOC The Salis meeting A member: CeSDA Behind Thomas Rouault Websites stories (Toxibase, France, and Elisad treasurer) one can News recognise George Here, we have an evidence-based fact about the Publications Marcelle, drug prevention true nature of Jorunn Moen, our president: she specialist with a focus on OnlineDocs is a nice bird... cinema films. Agenda ting is not functioning well. On contrary, the extra curricular acti- vities have been