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Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Gaitanou, Panorea – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Currently "Big Data" is an emerging field that presents several Information Technology challenges regarding the capture, storage search, structure, and visualization of this data. The real challenge for organizations is to find ways to extract value from it and provide better services to their clients. The data generated in academic and…
Descriptors: Data, Librarians, Library Role, Library Research
Carlson, Kathleen – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2011
This paper takes a look at how one academic health sciences librarian brought mediated literature searching to the distance RN to BSN nursing students. It takes a look at why Adobe Connect was the webinar software that was selected to deliver online instruction to the students. The article explains how students participated in a pre-class survey…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Sciences
Kim, Bohyun – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
This article presents a case study of the intranet implementation and adoption process of a SharePoint intranet at a small academic library and investigates why the many Web 2.0 tools of the library intranet are currently underused. Staff interviews showed that common goals for an intranet, such as information dissemination, knowledge sharing,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Adoption (Ideas), Case Studies, Program Implementation

Friedlander, Janet – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1973
The results of a study of the information seeking habits of members of the faculty of a medical school are discussed with particular emphasis on the use made of a medical library. (4 references) (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Library Research, Medical Libraries, Physicians

Wender, Ruth W. – Special Libraries, 1975
Regional Library Services of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Library studied its records of journal use to determine which titles were requested most often, which users requested them, and the recency of the requested articles. (LS)
Descriptors: Library Research, Medical Libraries, Regional Libraries, Scholarly Journals

Piternick, Anne B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975
A computerized method of preparing a sample of journal issues for testing purposes was created by listing every issue of a set of journals. Random samples of the issues were selected by the computer and printed out. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Library Research, Medical Libraries, Research Methodology

Olson, Paul E. – Special Libraries, 1976
A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog of books, conducted from June 1973 through May 1975 under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49 year-old catalog in the context of interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. (Author)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Research

West, Richard T.; Malone, Maureen J. – Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1980
Reports the findings of a 1978 NLM (National Library of Medicine) study that examined grant-related communication activity as an initial task in exploring information exchange in health sciences librarianship. Background, methodology, and results are described, and data tables are provided. (Author/JD)
Descriptors: Grants, Information Dissemination, Library Research, Medical Libraries
Sullivan, Michael V.; And Others – Library Research, 1980
Reports findings of a study of the 10-year use of 334 biomedical journals in the Lane Medical Library of Stanford University Medical Center. Use and density of use (use/shelf space occupied) statistics are tabulated and a ranked list of the journals, by use and use-density, is appended. (JD)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Library Research, Medical Libraries, Obsolescence
Schleg, Marilyn C.; Pings, Vern M. – 1969
The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a method to provide facts about the clientele and use of one type of health science library, the hospital medical library. The method was tested in two hospital libraries, Harper Hospital, Detroit, and Hurley Hospital, Flint. The study was divided into four levels of data collecting and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation, Hospitals, Library Facilities

Rashid, Haseeb F. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
This study measured the following performance factors at the Cleveland Health Science Library: user bibliographic information; collection development policy; acquisition policy; user catalog; circulation; library operation/functioning; and user search. Book availability rates were similar to rates for other academic libraries, and book…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Library Policy

Fidzani, B. T.; Oladokun, O. S. – Library Review, 2001
Describes a study of Institutes of Health Sciences (IHS) libraries in Botswana that determined the state of the collections and services and examined how well the libraries provided complements to classroom-based student learning and to lecturers' research. Results showed that college library standards were not met and recommends strategies for…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Improvement
Bourne, Charles P.; Gregor, Dorothy – 1975
To aid in controlling the cost of acquisitions in a research library, techniques were developed for the rational selection of serial titles for cancellation. The context for the proposed methodology was a network or multicampus environment rather than an individual library, and it was tested with a specific body of health sciences serial titles in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Language Periodicals, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation
Seibert, Warren F.; Kuenz, Marjorie A. – 1992
The analyses reported here on the growth and change of medical school libraries are based on the annual statistics of 67 U.S. and Canadian medical school libraries, 1975-89, and 4 primary statistics from "parent," main campus libraries, all of them members of the Association of Research Libraries. The results show that medical school…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Economic Impact, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Gonda-Farley, Kristine M. – 1996
This study examines the interlibrary loan requests made to NEOUCOM's (Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine) Oliver Ocasek Regional Medical Information Center in Rootstown, OH from its associated council hospital libraries. A total of 636 interlibrary loan requests from the period July 1994-July 1995 were analyzed. Components of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Hospital Libraries, Interlibrary Loans
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