Abstract
The South East Asian Medical Information Center (SEAMIC), one of the major projects of the International Medical Foundation of Japan (IMFJ), was created for the purpose of contributing to better health planning in South East Asian countries through the exchange, generation, and utilization of health and medical related information on a multilateral basis. The 11th SEAMIC Workshop on “Multilateral Collaboration on SEAMIC Health Information Activities with Special Reference to Inter-Country Lending System” was held at Bangkok, Thailand from February 6th to 10th, 1984. There were 18 participants from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and W. H. O. Two technical papers were presented and each participating country presented its respective country report. Six panelists discussed about training programmes for medical and health related information personnel. There were 4 sessions to discuss about the development of inter-country lending system. The main agreements and recommendations are as follows: 1) Compilation and publication of the SEAMIC Union List is March 1987. 2) The provision of one additional photocopy machine to each country; Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, and two more additional machines to Indonesia was recommended. 3) The guideline and procedure of coupon system was admitted by all participating countries. 4) All six SEAMIC countries including Japan submit a listing of doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings published since 1983. 5) All SEAMIC countries agreed to participate in preparation fo the SEAMIC Index Medicus. This work should be completed by 1986. 6) Collection and compilation of library statistics should be done by SEAMIC annually. 7) “User Study” should be set up to know medical librarians' view concerning SEAMIC services.
