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Dali, Keren; Dilevko, Juris – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2006
Although fiction plays a prominent role in the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities (MH), it is physically and intellectually isolated from non-fiction in academic health sciences libraries. Using the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (LAMD) as a tool for selection and subject analysis, we suggest a method of integrating fiction…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Academic Libraries, Medicine, Humanities
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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
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Norton, Melanie J.; Keesee, Susan H.; Mabe, Denise; Chavez, Pedro; Lanning, Kevin E.; Allegri, Francesca – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
Beginning in July 2002, the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill underwent an 11 million dollar renovation. During three phases of the renovation, parts of the collection were inaccessible to patrons. In order to continue to make the library's collection available, library staff created a paging system.…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Educational Facilities Improvement, Library Services, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Shepard, Elizabeth – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
Serving as a case study of a photographic digitization project in a midsize repository, this article describes a project at the Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives. The author examines six components that the archivist needs to contemplate when planning a digitization project: selecting the images to be digitized, understanding the needs of the…
Descriptors: Photography, Media Adaptation, Electronic Publishing, Task Analysis