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Information was current at time of publication.{"id":8339,"date":"2015-03-20T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2015-04-08T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:34:43","slug":"hsls-provides-consultation-to-library-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/hsls-provides-consultation-to-library-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"HSLS Provides Consultation to Nazarbayev University Library in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a partnership with the Nazarbayev University (NU) in Astana, Kazakhstan to advise on the establishment of a new medical school.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) is now included in this project to provide consultation to NU librarians about establishing library service to the new medical school.\u00a0This will include advice on collection development, space, reference services, and teaching. The first class of medical students will start in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Barbara Epstein, HSLS director, and Nancy Tannery, HSLS senior associate director, traveled to Astana in early March. The NU Library is an attractive and spacious facility currently providing collections and services to the NU Schools of Education, Engineering, Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Studies, Public Policy and Business. During the week in Astana, Barbara and Nancy met with the NU library director, librarians and staff, NU school of medicine dean and faculty, and the library committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8340\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8340 \" alt=\"Kazakhstan library\" src=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-library-515x480.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-library-515x480.jpg 515w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-library-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-library.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazarbayev University Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The visit coincided with a seminar for 37 medical librarians from other areas of this very large country.\u00a0Included in the day and a half long seminar were an overview of HSLS by Barbara and a hands-on class titled \u201cResources Available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine\u201d\u00a0by Nancy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8341\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8341\" alt=\"Nancy Tannery bottom left, Barbara Epstein bottom right and two Kazakhstan medical librarians.\" src=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-seminar-515x391.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-seminar-515x391.jpg 515w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-seminar-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2015\/03\/Kazakhstan-seminar.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Tannery bottom left, Barbara Epstein bottom right, and two Kazakhstan medical librarians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the year progresses, HSLS expects to offer a series of webinars with more in-depth training about NLM databases and other online tools. A team of NU librarians will also visit Pittsburgh to learn more about services and instruction in academic health sciences libraries in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>~Nancy Tannery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has a partnership with the Nazarbayev University (NU) in Astana, Kazakhstan to advise on the establishment of a new medical school. The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) is now included in this project to provide consultation to NU librarians about establishing library service to the new medical school.\u00a0This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-8339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2015","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8339"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8374,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions\/8374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}