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Meghan Hupe; Linda Van Keuren – Journal of Access Services, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted libraries tremendously and changed the way services were offered to patrons. Dahlgren Memorial Library was no exception and the library strived to find ways to keep their student assistants employed. This article will discuss how the library trained its student assistants to cover the chat system and work on projects…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Mediated Communication, Library Services
Ansuategi, Eukene; Ubeda, Marimar; Iglesias, Mayte; Urreta, Iratxe; Emparanza, Jose Ignacio – Education for Information, 2020
Distance working in the context of the COVID-19 crisis has engendered a new model of collaborative activity for the Library of Donostialdea Integrated Health Organisation (San Sebastián, Spain). Promoted by the Clinical Epidemiology and Research Unit, this initiative has enabled Hospital Management to respond to some of the gaps in information…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Library Services
Hurley, Timothy – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2021
Makerspaces have continued to be a popular addition to the services offered by libraries. This article will address the creation and implementation of one at a mid-sized medical library. The writer will summarize their personal experience of the steps taken towards opening the makerspace and give insight into the process. This article will also…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Program Implementation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Johns, Elizabeth M.; Price, Carrie; Ungaretti, Antoinette S. – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
Research librarians often have a specialty in certain discipline, and many academic libraries thrive on this type of arrangement to support their researchers. But more often, new interdisciplinary programs are developed that require the expertise of more than one subject expert for support. In particular, students in a Master of Education in the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Educational Cooperation, Librarians, Interdisciplinary Approach
Pinkas, María M.; Lin, Na – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2014
This article describes the application of electronic resources management (ERM) to digital repository management at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The authors discuss electronic resources management techniques, through the application of "Techniques for Electronic Management,"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Medical Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Methods
Kenefick, Colleen M.; Werner, Susan E. – Public Services Quarterly, 2013
On the Stony Brook University campus, there is literally a highway that divides the general academic side of the campus from the health sciences and hospital side. For more than 40 years, the Health Sciences Library and the University Libraries had been administered separately with different directors, budgets, staff, and organizational cultures.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Medical Libraries, Library Administration, Organizational Change
Locke, Joanne; Panella, Nancy M. – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (NJ1), 2010
In 2001, the Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons (LSDP) Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), published the "International Resource Book for Libraries Serving Disadvantaged Persons." This publication is a seventy year retrospective which chronicles the history of the Section from 1931 to 2001.…
Descriptors: Library Services, Disadvantaged, Special Libraries, Medical Libraries
Guillot, Ladonna; Stahr, Beth; Meeker, Bonnie Juve' – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
Nursing and library faculty face many information literacy challenges when graduate nursing programs migrate to online course delivery. The authors describe a collaborative model for providing cost-effective online library services to new graduate students in a three-university consortium. The embedded librarian service links a health sciences…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Medical Libraries, Librarians
Martell, Charles – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2008
Use of the physical collections and services of academic libraries continues to plummet, with some exceptions, while use of electronic networked resources skyrockets. This article frames the extent of this decline with a focus on circulation and reference among ARL University, Medical, and Law Libraries, the Ivy League, other associations,…
Descriptors: Law Libraries, Academic Libraries, Medical Libraries, Use Studies
Mitchell, Nicole – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
For the past several years, many in the library profession have questioned the relevance of reference librarians in the digital age. With so much information available online, are reference librarians even still needed? The author believes they are--probably even more so today than ever. It is precisely the vast proliferation of electronic…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Reference Services, Library Services, Librarians

Krieb, Dennis – Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 1999
Discusses experiences of the Saint Louis University's Health Sciences Center Library in providing access to electronic journals to a dispersed constituency. Topics include IP (institutional password) filtering, how publishers and aggregators establish access control, credential-based authentication, and proxy servers. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Journals, Library Services, Medical Libraries

Nagle, Ellen – Library Trends, 1996
Reviews changes in health sciences libraries, including the evolving role of health sciences librarians, education and training of health sciences librarians, rethinking reference services, impact on quality health care, improving the value of information, virtual libraries, National Library of Medicine initiatives, and quality initiatives. (LRW)
Descriptors: Change, Library Education, Library Role, Library Services

Self, Phyllis C.; Wright, Barbara A.; Waugh, Jessica L. – Library Trends, 1998
Explores the variety of innovations in service models implemented over the last 25 years that health-sciences librarians have initiated to extend library services and information to remote users. Trends in health-care-management systems, education initiatives, the rise in consumerism, and expectations of new categories of users are discussed.…
Descriptors: Consumer Protection, Health Maintenance Organizations, Library Services, Medical Libraries

Roach, Agnes A. – Library Trends, 1979
Considers the role of medical librarians as it contributes to the effectiveness of patient care teams, and discusses the training and certification of clinical librarians, the development of library health care services, and the activities of medical information networks. (FM)
Descriptors: Certification, Information Networks, Information Services, Librarians
Munson, Kurt I.; Frisque, Michelle – Computers in Libraries, 2004
In this article, the authors relate how they developed a software that provides solutions to their library system needs. The authors work at the Galter Health Sciences Library of the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, located in downtown Chicago. The library serves the medical school's faculty, staff, residents, students, and…
Descriptors: Library Networks, Libraries, Hospitals, Computer Software