Download or read book Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship written by M. Sandra Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship covers a wide range of areas beyond traditional medical libraries. This helpful guide provides an overview of the health care environment, academic health sciences, hospital libraries, health informatics, and more. This single volume provides a sound foundation on health sciences libraries to students, beginning, and practicing librarians alike.
Download or read book Critical Librarianship written by Samantha Schmehl Hines and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a timely mix of thought-provoking chapters bringing together national and global studies on critical librarianship, and conveying the kind of research which current library managers and researchers need, mixing theory with a good dose of pragmatism.
Download or read book Ethics and Librarianship written by Robert Hauptman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of papers and journal articles dealing with various ethical issues in librarianship, but only a few books. Information workers find themselves rendering new services and providing new kinds of information without much recourse to universally accepted ethical standards. This work is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the subject. It promotes the view that as information managers, librarians must join with other professionals to renew a commitment to and interest in ethics. The book deals with such topics as ethics in general, the control of ideas, building collections, acquisitions and cataloging, access services, the reference function, special libraries, research and publication, and intellectual property and copyright. A chapter discusses why ethics matters.
Download or read book A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship written by Michael R. Kronenfeld and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Medical Libraries and Librarianship in the United States: From John Shaw Billingsto the Digital Era presents a history of the profession from the beginnings of the Army Surgeon General’s Library in 1836 to today’s era of the digital health sciences library. The purpose of this book is not only to make this history available to the profession’s practitioners, but also to provide context as medical librarians and libraries enter a new age in their history as the digital information environment has undercut the medical library’s previous role as the depository of the print based KBI/information base. The book divides the profession’s history is divided into seven eras: 1. The Era of the Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw Billings – 1836 – 1898 2. The Era of the Gentleman Physician Librarian – 1898 to 1945 3. The Era of the Development of the Clinical Research Infrastructure (NIH), the Rapid Expansion in Funded and Published Clinical Research and the Emergence of Medical Librarianship as a Profession – 1945 – 1962 4. The Era of the Development of the National Library of Medicine, Online digital Subject Searching (Medline) and the Creation of the National Health Science Library Infrastructure– 1962 – 1975 5. The Medline Era – A Golden Age for Medical Libraries – 1975 – 1995 6. The Era of Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to Digitally Based Medical Libraries – 1995 – 2015 7. The Era of the Digital Health Sciences Library – 2015 – Each era is reviewed through discussing the developments in the field and the factors which drove those developments. The book will provide current and future medical librarians and information specialists an understanding of the development of their profession and some insights into its future.
Download or read book The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries written by Margaret Bandy and published by Neal Schuman Pub. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Journal called the first edition of this book the new gold standard in its field. This extensively revised, new edition brings that invaluable content up to date, tackling important changes in technology and the increasing financial pressures that have affected both the health care and library industries. From new initiatives, roles, and technologies to assessing the needs of an organization to managing libraries, the range and depth of this text is incomparable.Unlike other books on the subject, this volume focuses extensively on the management of the 21st-century health sciences library.
Download or read book The Medical Library Association Guide to Health Literacy written by Marge Kars and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps you understand the role that medical, hospital, public, and health libraries are uniquely qualified to play in improving health literacy. This work teaches you ways to use collection development, the reference interview, community health information, and Web resources, as well as strategies for working with special needs populations.
Download or read book MLA Salary Survey written by Medical Library Association and published by Chicago, Ill. : The Association. This book was released on 1984 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British librarianship and information work 2006 2010 written by J. H. Bowman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest in an important series of reviews going back to 1928. The book contains 26 chapters, written by experts in their field, and reviews developments in the principal aspects of British librarianship and information work in the years 2006-2010.
Download or read book British librarianship and information work 2011 2015 written by J. H. Bowman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest in an important series of reviews going back to 1928. The book contains 28 chapters, written by experts in their field, and reviews developments in the principal aspects of British librarianship and information work in the years 2011-2015.
Download or read book Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship written by M. Sandra Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the foundational knowledge about health sciences librarianship. The general term “health sciences libraries” covers a wide range of areas beyond medical libraries, such as biomedical, nursing, allied health, pharmacy, and others. Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship provides a sound foundation to all aspects of these types of libraries to students and librarians new to the field. This helpful guide provides a helpful overview of the health care environment, technical services, public services, management issues, academic health sciences, hospital libraries, health informatics, evidence-based practice, and more. This text provides crucial information every beginning and practicing health sciences librarian needs—all in one volume. Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship presents some of the most respected librarians and educators in the field, each discussing important aspects of librarianship, including technical services, public services, administration, special services, and special collections. This comprehensive volume provides all types of librarians with helpful general, practical, and theoretical knowledge about this profession. The book’s unique "A Day in the Life of . . . " feature describes typical days of health sciences librarians working in special areas such as reference or consumer health, and offers anyone new to the field a revealing look at what a regular workday is like. The text is packed with useful figures, screen captures, tables, and references. Topics discussed in Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship include: overview of health sciences libraries health environment collection development of journals, books, and electronic resources organization of health information access services information services and information retrieval information literacy health informatics management of academic health sciences libraries management and issues in hospital libraries library space planning specialized services Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship provides essential information for health sciences librarians, medical librarians, beginning and intermediate level health sciences/medical librarians, and any health sciences librarian wishing to review the field. This crucial volume belongs in every academic health sciences library, hospital library, specialized health library, biomedical library, and academic library.
Download or read book Sci tech Librarianship written by Julie Hallmark and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published simultaneously as Science and Technology Libraries; v.17, no.2, 1998. Seven contributions discuss the changing nature of scientific and technical librarianship (a personal perspective over 40 years), the Internet and science and technology reference instruction, and education for librarianship in engineering, chemistry, the health sciences, and geoscience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Introduction to Health Care Careers written by Roxann DeLaet and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Health Care & Careers provides students beginning their health care education with the fundamentals they need to develop their personal and professional skills, understand their chosen profession, and succeed in the world of health care.
Download or read book Health Information Management What Strategies written by Suzanne Bakker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Information Management: What Strategies? contains the Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Medical and Health Libraries and gives a full account of the state-of-the-art of European medical librarianship. This book is the fifth in a well-received series of proceedings of the European conferences and together the volumes form a valuable source for medical librarians in Europe. The quality of papers reflects the growth of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) towards maturity and the ongoing professional development of its members. The field of medical and health information has no geographical borders, therefore medical librarianship needs to be an international and multinational cooperation. The book reflects the important developments ongoing in medical informatics and medical information management. These subjects are touched upon as they have a close connection to medical librarianship. The future of medical libraries will be dominated by strong alliances with computer departments and health and hospital management departments. Many contributions deal with the strategies medical librarians can or will develop in order to incorporate the many tools of modern information technology into library policy and practice.
Download or read book Handbook of Special Librarianship and Information Work written by Patti Dossett and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science written by John Feather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eagerly awaited new edition, has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the Encyclopedia was originally conceived.
Download or read book Straight from the Stacks written by Laura Townsend Kane and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For library students, paraprofessionals, and librarians who are wondering if they have their ladder against the right wall, Straight from the Stacks fills the need for an up-to-date resource that uncovers the amazing and varied jobs available in the library field.
Download or read book British Librarianship and Information Work 1991 2000 written by J. H. Bowman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference volume covers developments in almost every aspect of British library and information work during the ten-year period 1991-2000. The book provides a comprehensive record of what took place in library and information management during a decade of considerable change and challenges.
