A Partnership of Medical and Health Libraries

The first steps towards a parBaltic Sea Region Committee:tnership programme between the Nordic and the Baltic health libraries were initiated in 1994. In July 2000 the Baltic countries were invited to join what was then called the Nordic Association for Medical and Health Information (NAMHI). In 2004 the name of NAMHI was changed to The Nordic Baltic Association for Medical and Health Information. Within the framework of the association, each of the Nordic medical associations has its own partnership programme with a Baltic country.

In 2001 the library of the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies (MAPS), St. Petersburg, Russia, was included in this partnership through the cooperation between the Norwegian Library Association Section for Medicine and Health (SMH) and the Task Force on Communicable Disease Control at the Baltic Sea Region.

The Baltic Sea Region Cooperation has it's own website:       http://www.smh.no/baltic/

SMH's Baltic Sea Region Committee