University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Health Libraries as Joint Use Libraries: Serving Medical Practitioners and Students

Dorrington, Linda

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Title
Health Libraries as Joint Use Libraries: Serving Medical Practitioners and Students
Author(s)
Dorrington, Linda
Issue Date
2006
Keyword(s)
  • Joint use libraries
  • Library cooperation
  • Medical libraries
  • Health information
Abstract
Libraries, whether medical or healthcare, in higher education (HE) institutions or the National Health Service (NHS), provide services to all types of healthcare students and professionals. Many of these are delivered through contracts, in the form of service-level agreements, between the two key organizations. The challenge to librarians is ensuring that users are provided with access to the resources they need and the skills to use those resources to the benefi t of a patient-centered environment. External drivers such as developments in education, a continuously modernizing health service, and new technology have infl uenced the development of services. Issues regarding the access to electronic information for the different user groups still exist. Librarians have to support the differing user groups, who may have varying levels of computer and library skills, and provide skills training on a wide variety of resources from their own institution and from nationally provided content.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3647
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Copyright 2006 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Owning Collections

Library Trends 54 (4) Spring 2006: Dual Use Libraries PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (4) Spring 2006: Dual Use Libraries. Edited by Sarah McNicol