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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
Smith, Denise – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
McMaster University's Health Sciences Library (HSL) began to transition to a new liaison service model in early 2018. One of its librarians sought to understand how an academic health sciences library can optimise its support for academic undergraduate programmes. This scoping review of the literature was pursued with the aim to submit an informed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Medical Libraries
Arroyo, Sonia Santana – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
There persists an intense debate on whether or not the traditional reference desk should be in academic libraries. Yet, despite many anti-desk studies, the place of the reference desk still remains. This paper aims to review the current significance of the reference desk for some libraries, as well as the importance of choosing the proper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Libraries, Reference Services, Library Services
Bardyn, Tania P.; Resnick, Taryn; Camina, Susan K. – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2012
How translational researchers use data is becoming an important support function for libraries to understand. Libraries' roles in this increasingly complex area of Web librarianship are often unclearly defined. The authors conducted two focus groups with physicians and researchers at an academic medical center, the UCLA David Geffen School of…
Descriptors: Libraries, Open Source Technology, Medical Schools, Researchers
Drake, Paul B., Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
This publication follows the tradition of publishing selected papers from Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives and Museums (PIALA) annual conferences. This 19th annual conference was held in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, November 16-21, 2009. The volume begins with a listing of the members of the PIALA 2009 Planning…
Descriptors: Libraries, Archives, Museums, Films
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Bland, Les, Comp. – Association of Research Libraries, 2009
This document presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 64 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2007-2008, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 240,955 volumes, spent a total of $240,019,298, and employed 2,304…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Academic Libraries, Expenditures, Library Materials
Ullah, Midrar; Ameen, Kanwal; Bakhtar, Salman – Education for Information, 2011
The study aims to explore the professional activities, needed competencies and education/training needs of medical librarians in Pakistan. The following questions guided the study: what are the current professional activities of medical librarians in Pakistan? What is their perception of the competencies needed of medical librarians? And what are…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Library Schools, Medical Libraries, Foreign Countries
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Bland, Les, Comp. – Association of Research Libraries, 2008
This document presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 65 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2006-2007, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 244,188 volumes, spent a total of $244,188,020, and employed 2,395 FTE…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Materials
Nefedcenko, M. – Unesco Bulletin for Libraries, 1970
During the period of Soviet rule a widespread network of medical libraries has been established throughout the country. (AB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Libraries, Library Networks

Lovelace, Eugenia – Australian Library Journal, 1978
This service, begun in February 1977 through the Sydney Eye Hospital Library, provides a monthly list of 40-50 references for distribution throughout the hospital and mailing to 190 members of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists. The analysis discusses user characteristics, items requested through the library, and most popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Services, Library Services
Lewis, Simon; Denz-Penhey, Harriet; Murdoch, J. Campbell – Australian Library Journal, 2006
The University of Western Australia's Rural Clinical School was set up to train a quarter of the medical students for a full year in rural and remote Western Australia. These students need full access to the resources of the medical library so that they are not disadvantaged in comparison to metropolitan students. Setting up library access for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Medical Students, Medical Libraries
Dhir, S. C.; Anand, S. K. – Unesco Bulletin for Libraries, 1972
The results of a questionnaire sent to medical schools in Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Mangolia and Thailand to survey the state of medical libraries are reported. Comments and recommendations are made. (3 references) (SJ)
Descriptors: Budgets, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Library Collections
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Papers on library services to hospital personnel, hospital patients, and housebound or handicapped persons, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Education and Training for Health Care Librarianship," in which Antonia J. Bunch (United Kingdom) discusses the…
Descriptors: Bookmobiles, Foreign Countries, Hospital Libraries, International Organizations

Keast, Don; Hooke, Julie – Australian Library Journal, 1985
Describes the growth, rationale, and operation of a no-charge cooperative formed in 1982 by group of small Australian health science libraries to combat rising costs of interlibrary loans (GRATIS), and its South Australian equivalent (GRATISSA). Membership, coverage, features, problems, applications, and future developments are noted. Nine…
Descriptors: Costs, Foreign Countries, Hospital Libraries, Interlibrary Loans

Stinson, E. Ray – Library Trends, 1982
Discusses service standards (level of excellence or adequacy in performance of library service) and their incorporation in the accreditation process for hospital library service and academic health sciences libraries. The certification program developed for health sciences librarians by the Medical Library Association is reviewed. Fifty-nine…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Certification, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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