University of San
Francisco Quito
Vice-Dean Mr. Carlos
Montufar (on the left)
shakes hands with
Elsevier Account
Manager Marcio Gama
at the "Book in Your Name"
ceremony in Quito.

Through the "Book in Your Name" program honoring Elsevier’s history, Elsevier donated 800 books to the University of San Francisco at Quito. Covering medicine, nursing, life sciences and agriculture, the books were displayed at the university's library and then incorporated into its collection. About 50 people, including USFQ Dean Santiago Gangotena and Library Director Thais Pinto as well as USFQ department chairs, professors and students, attended the donation ceremony held in the university library.

Elsevier Account Manager
David Cruz (on the left)
and Miguel Angel del Saz
with Compañía Española
de Petróleos, SA, at
Elsevier’s corporate
libraries event in
December 2005.

At Elsevier’s annual corporate libraries event, held in London, European information specialists shared views on current and future situations of corporate libraries. Karen Hunter, Elsevier senior vice president, spoke on publisher-library relations. Agfa-Gevaert, Boehringer Ingelheim and QinetiQ representatives discussed their libraries’ marketing activities and experience using Elsevier products including Scopus and ScienceDirect. Dr. Barend Mons, biosemantics professor at Rotterdam’s university medical center, spoke about semantic support technology addressing ambiguity problems in biomedical literature.

(Left to right) Elsevier
Account Manager
Ms. Li-Wei Lai, Elsevier
Account Development
Manager Mr. Jack
Huang and Elsevier
Account Manager
Ms. Thelmal Huang
with National Taipei
University of Technology
Library Director Mr. Sheng-Ming
Cheng at the NCHU conference.

During the recent National Chung Hsing University Collection Development Conference, over 300 library directors, librarians and deans from all over Taiwan discussed many topics including Scopus and ScienceDirect backfiles. Also recently in Asia, Elsevier's Customer Marketing team in India successfully staged a series of e-learning workshops for over 140 librarians from institutes funded by the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme through the World Bank. During the workshop in Pune, Dr. S. Venkadesan, the Indian Institute of Science’s library service head, delivered a well received lecture on facets of a digital library.

Honorees Albert B. Lowenfels, MD
(on the left), surgery and
community and preventive
medicine professor, and
Ms. Cunningham celebrate
faculty authorship.
(Ms. Cunningham was
honored for her work in
the journal Public Health Reports.)

New York Medical College’s annual author reception, organized by NYMC Library Director Diana Cunningham, recognizes the college’s faculty members who published in the previous year. At this year’s event, sponsored by Scopus, awards were presented to honor outstanding achievement among faculty authors and a bibliography of journal articles and books published by faculty in 2005 was announced. To compile the bibliography and conduct research for the awards, NYMC Library colleagues led by Cheryl Silver ran Scopus searches.

(Left to right) El-Minia
University President
Dr. Abdel-Monem A. El-Bassuony,
Elsevier Account Development
Manager Olivier Diesnis and
Elsevier Account Manager
Ramy Hassanien.

Very large and enthusiastic audiences turned out for Elsevier Seminars reaching just over 800 librarians, professors and chancellors at ten institutes. Organized with the Egyptian Universities Library consortium, the seminars featured trainings on how to get the best from ScienceDirect and presentations by Dr. Amgad Elgohary about building a digital library to serve all Egyptian universities.

Former Australian Prime Minister
Edward Gough Whitlam reviews
his speech with Endeavor’s
Julie Wright (in the center) and
the University of Western Sydney’s
Librarian Liz Curach (on the right).

Former Australian Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam spoke at an Endeavor Information Systems event in Melbourne. He praised the company’s collaboration with the University of Western Sydney, resulting in the Whitlam Institute’s Prime Ministerial Collection. Speaking to Endeavor representatives and information professionals at the State Library of Victoria, Mr. Whitlam also addressed the evolution of scholarly access. “Over the years, technology in libraries has changed,” said Mr. Whitlam. “In my day, there were no faxes, photocopiers, CD-ROMs or World Wide Web. Nowadays, students at all levels can immediately access information over the Internet, and this 24-by-7 access can only assist scholarly research.”