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Direct linkAho, Melissa K.; Beschnett, Anne M.; Reimer, Emily Y. – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
Student workers have always been a traditional and valuable component to the smooth running of many academic health sciences libraries. However, in recent years many libraries have redefined student workers' roles to extend beyond their traditional scope due to a range of factors, such as loss of staff and budget cutbacks. The Bio-Medical Library…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Student Employment, College Students, Academic Libraries
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
Baro, Emmanuel E.; Endouware, Benake-ebide C.; Ubogu, Janet O. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether undergraduate students in the College of Health Sciences in Niger Delta University are information literate, and to determine whether they are aware of and use different information resources including electronic ones, and to assess their ability to evaluate information before use.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Information Literacy
Oduwole, Adebambo Adewale; Oyewumi, Olatundun – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: This study aims to examine the accessibility and use of web-based electronic databases on the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) portal by physicians in the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro--a psychiatry health institution in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach: Collection of data was through the use of a three-part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Psychiatric Hospitals, Access to Information
Nault, Andre J. – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
Veterinary medical libraries and librarians are unique. There are now 33 veterinary colleges in North America, and in accordance with American Veterinary Medical Association accreditation, each has a library managed by an accredited librarian. Colleges with veterinary programs often maintain specialized branch libraries to support the degree,…
Descriptors: Medical Libraries, Academic Libraries, Professional Associations, Librarians
Download full textDrake, 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
Townsend, Whitney – Public Services Quarterly, 2011
Medical and health sciences libraries have incorporated the elements of evidence-based practice (EBP) into their reference services, instruction, and online resource development for years. While EBP focuses on the use of medical and health sciences literature in the clinical environment (i.e., making decisions about how to treat a particular…
Descriptors: Evidence, Medical Education, Medical Libraries, Information Literacy
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
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
Bissels, Gerhard – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the selection process and criteria that led to the implementation of the Koha 3.0 library management system (LMS) at the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Library and Information Service (CAMLIS), Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is a report based on…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Information Systems, Medical Libraries, Computer Software Selection
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Bland, Les, Comp. – Association of Research Libraries, 2010
The "ARL Annual Salary Survey 2009-2010" reports salary data for all professional staff working in ARL libraries. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) represents the interests of libraries that serve major North American research institutions. Data for 10,207 professional staff members were reported this year for the 114 ARL…
Descriptors: Salaries, Professional Personnel, Library Personnel, Librarians
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
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
Ritchie, Ann; Hallam, Gillian; Hamill, C.; Lewis, S.; Foti, M.; O'Connor, P.; Clark, C. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2010
Through a grant received from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Health Libraries Australia (HLA) is conducting a twelve-month research project with the goal of developing a system-wide approach to education for the future health librarianship workforce. The research has two main aims: to determine the future skills,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Libraries, Librarians, Specialists
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
