Reference Services Review: Volume 32 Issue 1
Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age
Table of contents
Leadership for today and tomorrow in health sciences librarianship
Ilene F. RockmanPromotes the important leadership role that academic librarians should play in medical and health sciences communities. This role includes teaching, technology, research support…
Why emerging roles for health sciences librarians?
Jean P. ShipmanHealth sciences librarians no longer find themselves only staffing reference desks or building collections. Their activities range from being active participants in health‐care…
Emerging roles of health sciences librarians: academic library centrality
Sarah Barbara WatsteinThe emerging roles of health sciences librarians are considered within the context of changes and challenges facing both the profession of librarianship and the library. Suggests…
PDA librarian
Gabriel R. RiosThe Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia is one of several libraries taking a leadership role with personal digital assistants (PDAs). The mission of…
Teaching a Web‐based course in health informatics
Lynne U. Turman, Phyllis C. Self, Pascal V. CalarcoLibrarians at Virginia Commonwealth University teach a course in Health Informatics as part of a distance learning Doctoral program for allied health professionals. This paper…
Clinical research informationist
Ellen G. DetlefsenThe article describes an informationist who serves a large clinical research team in a medical school as a part‐time information officer. The multidisciplinary team is focused on…
Campus intellectual property policy development
Richard NollanThe evolution of the Internet and information technology in the last 20 years has been breathtakingly rapid, and promises to continue so. Faculty members in academic health…
School of Medicine CBIL librarian: an educational informationist model
Brenda L. SeagoThe Computer‐Based Instruction Lab (CBIL) librarian works with instructional faculty in the School of Medicine (SOM) to identify and integrate computer‐based instruction into the…
Nursing librarian: an educator of future nurses
Pamela Sherwill‐NavarroThe importance of “information literacy” in the education of nursing students continues to increase. In response, partnerships between nursing faculty and librarians are…
Clinical medical librarian to clinical informationist
Helen‐Ann BrownClinical medical librarians stepped out of the library and joined the patient care team in the early 1970s, beginning in Kansas City, Missouri and then Hartford, Connecticut. Now…
Health professional education, evidence‐based health care, and health sciences librarians
K. Ann McKibbon, Liz BayleyEvidence‐based medicine (EBM) evolved from an innovative method of teaching residents to use published literature for patient care. The missing piece to this critical appraisal…
The librarian as tutor/facilitator in a problem‐based learning (PBL) curriculum
Jonathan D. EldredgeThis article describes the experiences of a librarian in a tutor/facilitator role immersed within a mainstream problem‐based learning (PBL) curriculum at the University of New…
Medical librarian as expert witness: the truth, and nothing but the truth
Rosalind K. LettMedical librarians are very comfortable in the library environment, where they research, analyze and disseminate information. But most are not as comfortable in an environment…
Evaluation in health information outreach programs
Catherine M. BurroughsThe National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) includes eight Regional Medical Libraries and their Network members who are vital to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM…
Area Health Education Center (AHEC) outreach librarian
Diana McDuffeeArea Health Education Center (AHEC) librarians are first, and foremost, outreach librarians. Improving health care and the distribution of health‐care professionals in rural and…
Bioterrorism alert: reference and literature support for the CDC Director’s Emergency Operations Center (DEOC) and investigative field teams
Robert Swain, Kathleen B. Oliver, Jocelyn A. Rankin, Jason Bonander, John W. LoonskThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is developing and supporting various strategies for emergency bioterrorism preparedness and response. To assist response…
STM publishing meets NIH digital archive: librarian service on the PubMed Central National Advisory Committee
J. Michael Homan, Linda A. WatsonThe PubMed Central (PMC) National Advisory Committee was established by the National Institutes of Health in 1999 to guide the development of a new, open‐access digital repository…
From the “other” side: working for a vendor
Lynn FortneyThe author works for a library vendor, EBSCO Information Services, as director of the Biomedical Division, with responsibility to monitor trends and issues of importance to…
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