Medical Librarianship
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13. The Oral History Program: II. Personal views of health sciences librarianship and the Medical Library Association.
The Medical Library Association Oral History Program uses accepted oral history techniques to collect and preserve interviews with members. The original taped interviews and transcripts are kept in the Medical Library Association archives and made available for research purposes; edited copies of the interviews are distributed through the National Network of
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14. The Oral History Program: III. Personal views of health sciences librarianship and the Medical Library Association.
The Medical Library Association Oral History Program uses accepted oral history techniques to collect and preserve interviews with members. The original taped interviews and transcripts are kept in the Medical Library Association archives and made available for research purposes; edited copies of the interviews are distributed through the National Network of
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15. Reflections on the Medical Library Association's international activities.
An overview of the Medical Library Association's past international activities is given with emphasis on the international fellowship program, international exchange of materials, participation in the International Federation of Library Associations, and international congresses on medical librarianship. Problems presented by cultural and educational differe
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16. MLA Certification: Its Present Problems and Future Development *
The certification program is reviewed and questions as to the validity of the existing three grades of certification are raised. Large institutions which employ many medical librarians do not officially recognize the certificates. The three types of certificates should be replaced with one certificate or diploma. Problems of meaningful examinations, lack of
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17. A leap forward in medical librarianship: a glimpse of the Biomedical Information Center and Network, People's Republic of China.
Working with the World Health Organization, the People's Republic of China has taken a giant leap toward modernization of its medical libraries and information centers. The Biomedical Information Center and Network Project is helping to develop professional training programs, resources, new facilities, and a resource-sharing and document delivery network amo
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18. Excellence, promise, vision, and values: reflections on the Janet Doe Lectures, 1967-1997.
As the Medical Library Association prepares to enter its second century of service to society, it can look back with pride on the remarkable record of achievements of the association and its members, both personal and institutional, which are preserved for posterity in the Janet Doe Lectures. Established in 1966 by an anonymous donor, the Janet Doe Lectures
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19. The physician and the medical library and Medical librarianship
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20. Bringing the best of medical librarianship to the patient team
This article introduces a series of articles examining the state of the medical library profession as practiced in the clinical context. It is widely understood that many changes across the spectrum of medical librarianship practice have been brought about by both technological advances and economic realities. These changes have created strains felt by many
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21. Research: the third dimension of librarianship.
The rapid accumulation of data through increasingly sophisticated computer technology has created an unprecedented information explosion which might better be called an ignorance explosion. Data gathering emphasizing quantity rather than quality, speed of transmission rather than reliability or relevance, poses a challenge to the future of librarianship. Two
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22. Medical librarianship: a systems perspective.
Medical or health sciences librarianship is viewed as a system whose components are the professional school, the professional group, and the professional association. As an open system it imports energy from these components, or subsystems, and transforms this energy into professionally identifiable products. The subsystems, in influencing the character of t
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23. In search of an ethic of medical librarianship.
Why is the literature on the ethics of librarianship so sparse? Some of the codes of ethics proposed or officially adopted during this century are examined, with an informal commentary on the reasons why they seem to have aroused so little sustained interest and discussion. Attention is directed particularly to library--user relationships and to some of the
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24. Birth of a Foundation
In order to attract competent students with backgrounds in biology to the field of medical librarianship, the Medical Library Group of Southern California decided to expand their scholarship program. Funds were appropriated to establish a nonprofit, tax exempt foundation whose objective is to provide two full annual scholarships for the Master's degree progr