Beyond traditional library spaces: the practicalities of closing hospital libraries and opening a virtual library [PDF]
The formation of the University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries (UMHSL) was the result of signing consecutive agreements over a period of 24 years between the University of Manitoba (UM) and Winnipeg area hospitals, now collectively known as the ...
Carol Cooke
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Standards of practice for hospital libraries and librarians, 2022: Medical Library Association Hospital Libraries Caucus Standards Task Force [PDF]
The Hospital Library Caucus of the Medical Library Association (MLA) follows the practice established in 1953 of developing quality indicators and best practices in the newly developing and fast-changing world of hospital libraries.
Jill Tarabula +7 more
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Standards for hospital libraries 2007: Hospital Libraries Section Standards Committee. [PDF]
Abstract The Medical Library Association’s Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002 has been developed as a guide for hospital administrators, librarians, and accrediting bodies to ensure that hospitals have the resources and services to effectively meet their needs for knowledge-based information.
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Objective: The study purpose was to understand how early months of the COVID-19 pandemic altered interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery (DD) in North American health science libraries (HSLs), specifically the decision-making and workflow ...
Jennifer K. Lloyd +4 more
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Relationship between Social Adjustment and Professional Ethics among Librarians in Libraries of Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences [PDF]
Background and aim: The professional ethics of librarianship consist of methods and behaviors that increase client desire for a library. One of the variables that results from professional ethics is social adjustment.
Sedigheh Mohammadesmaeil, Zahra Bagheri
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Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook
Health sciences libraries serving universities and medical facilities have long used technology to provide library services, but COVID-19 presented libraries with unique challenges.
Barbara M. Pope
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Virtual resident showcase: leveraging an institutional repository during COVID-19 social distancing
While institutional repositories are common in medical schools and academic health centers, they have been used by only a small number of health systems to track and promote their research and scholarly activity.
Heather J. Martin, Amanda Schwartz
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The tenth Janet Doe Lecture, a forty-year perspective: still relevant after all these years
Erich Meyerhoff was an academic health sciences librarian and a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association when he was invited to present the Janet Doe Lecture in 1977.
Wayne J. Peay, Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
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L’alfabetizzazione sanitaria: biblioteche e bibliotecari per il benessere dei cittadini
L’alfabetizzazione sanitaria è la capacità di ottenere, elaborare e capire informazioni sanitarie, in modo tale da partecipare attivamente, insieme ai medici, al processo decisionale per quanto riguarda la propria salute.
Vittorio Ponzani
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Identifying the Components of Providing Health Information Services to Patients in Hospital Libraries in Health Disasters by Meta-Synthesis Method [PDF]
Background and Aim: It is not possible to provide health information services in health crises without a comprehensive understanding of these services and how to provide them due to the health crisis. Based on this, the aim of the current research was to
Roya Balaghiinaloo +2 more
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