The next ten years will see an increasing demand for a marriage of information handling, communications technology, learning theory, educational design, and educational technology in order to help the health science community respond to the demand for health services. (Author)

Basic instructions (suggestions) are provided to help the initiate establish a resource center. The primer begins with some considerations in organizing a media resource collection which includes a brief discussion of the three basic types of media resource programs: reference only, limited acquisition, and permanent collections. This is followed…

Traditional library tasks, for example database searching, are increasingly performed by library users, forcing both the librarian and the user to assume at times dichotomous roles of teacher and student. Modern librarians install new software and guide organizations in multimedia applications. Librarians need to be cognizant of the human factor,…