International cooperation and the European Association for Health Information and Libraries

This paper describes cooperation between European libraries: what EAHIL hopes to achieve, and how it may be done. Since its founding in 1987, EAHIL has been working for professional development and to improve cooperation and exchange of experience amongst its members. In 1995 a working programme entitled 'EAHIL--Aims towards year 2000' was approved, and it consolidates some of the most important aims of EAHIL. In this paper, only three of the six aims are referred to: conferences and workshops arranged by EAHIL, the development of an efficient network system in order to increase communication and information among members, and the establishment of agreements for cooperation with medical and health science libraries in Eastern and Central Europe in particular.