Inspiring vanguards: the Woods Hole experience

Twice a year, the National Library of Medicine and Marine Biological Laboratory co-sponsor a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics for librarians, clinicians, and other health professionals in Woods Hole, MA. The fellowship is designed to inspire participants to become "agents of change" at their institution and to broaden their scope of knowledge for biomedical informatics. This paper discusses the field of biomedical informatics and explores the results of an informal survey from the librarians who participated in the fall session of 2005.     

基于双聚类方法的生物医学信息学文本数据挖掘研究

运用TDA和gCluto软件对SCI数据库中近5年的相关文献进行处理,获得双聚类矩阵图,经分析后得到该学科领域近年来的期刊研究主题方向与热点。结论认为,双聚类方法能够很好地反映学科发展状况及研究热点,从而为医学人员提供有价值的信息与知识,值得进一步研究与推广。     

A Community of Practice: Librarians in a Biomedical Research Network

Providing library and reference services within a biomedical research community presents special challenges for librarians, especially those in historically lower-funded states. These challenges can include understanding needs, defining and communicating the library's role, building relationships, and developing and maintaining general and subject specific knowledge. This article describes a biomedical research network and the work of health sciences librarians at the lead intensive research institution with librarians from primarily undergraduate institutions and tribal colleges. Applying the concept of a community of practice to a collaborative effort suggests how librarians can work together to provide effective reference services to researchers in biomedicine.     

Librarians in the Classroom

SUMMARY

This article reports on a survey conducted by the author to determine how librarians and library directors feel about librarians teaching outside the library, i.e., in academic disciplines. The author discusses her own experience in the classroom and examines the benefits and detriments of the “professor librarian” model. She includes comments from those surveyed, and offers suggestions for further study.     

健康信息学的学科范畴与中国健康信息学的发展——兼述健康信息学学科建设与发展学术研讨会

信息学正在与健康科学产生更多的关联,逐渐发展成为一门新兴的交叉学科——健康信息学。2021年10月,“健康信息学学科建设与发展学术研讨会”在北京召开,与会专家学者对健康信息学的概念定义、内容框架、社会需求、与相关学科的关系、新冠疫情防控与健康信息学、健康信息学学科建设等主要议题展开讨论。本文在深入研究国内外健康信息学理论和实践的基础上,结合与会专家的讨论,阐述中国健康信息学在起步阶段需要厘清的基本理论问题:健康信息学是什么,由哪些内容构成,发展过程如何,中国的健康信息学要如何发展。研究发现:①与大健康时代的健康概念相对应,健康信息学是一个大的学科群,它囊括了将信息学应用于健康、生物、医学领域而产生的一系列新兴学科,可以称之为大健康信息学或者生物医学健康信息学（BMHI）;②大健康信息学与多个学科有关联,是典型的交叉学科,包括众多的子学科,这些子学科秉承信息学共有的理论概念、方法技巧、技术手段,它们互有区别但又相互关联;③健康信息学研究从传统的聚焦解决临床医学中的信息问题,拓展到关注公共卫生中的信息问题,再拓展到关注民众日常生活中的健康信息问题;④在大健康时代,在健康中国建设和发展的机遇期,应通过不断学习、创新和提高,加快建设中国特色的大健康信息学,推动大健康信息学发展成为教育部交叉学科类别中的一级学科。图2。表2。参考文献47。     

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从传统图书馆员的工作入手,着重分析了网络时代图书馆工作所发生的新变化,由此说明网络时代的图书馆员所应具备的知识和能力     

情报学的困境与企盼——略论情报学理论思维

情报学理论思维的不成熟甚至缺失，是导致情报学精神气质消亡及其目前生存困境的原因。情报学理论思维是以情报活动的发展为对象，对情报实践展开反思与省察的过程。它关注情报活动，基于情报实践进行理论思考和建构；它以一定的知识系统为依据，并使之为情报学解释服参它以情报活动的发展为致思取向。情报学应重构自身的思维方式，这是情报学走出困境，走向成熟和规范化的标志。     

Knowledge and Utilization of the United States National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Information Products and Services Among African Health Sciences Librarians

The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) has the largest collection of biomedical information products and services in the world. Little is known of the extent to which librarians in sub-Saharan Africa are aware of and use these resources. The study's aim was to assess knowledge and frequency of use of NLM's biomedical information products and services among African librarians. Forty-three of the 50 delegates at the 11th biannual Congress of the Association of Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) participated in the study. The findings showed that participants' knowledge of NLM information products and services was low and that there is a need for increased awareness and training in the use of NLM's information products and services in order for users on the African continent to effectively benefit from them.     

图书馆员去职业化问题与馆员队伍的职业化建设

目前学术界有观点认为图书馆员正在走向“去职业化”,面对着中国图书馆职业“边缘化”发展的趋向和涌现出来的风险,论文界定了图书馆员职业化概念,提出应在职业资质、职业技能、职业行为、职业素养方面推进图书馆员职业化建设,而图书馆员“去职业化”研究应该滞后。     

21世纪的图书馆员

文章分析了网络环境下图书馆员面临的变化和发展趋势。以未来图书馆员角色定位的各种观点为基础,作者提出了21世纪图书馆员的新角色。     

谈公共图书馆对新员工的“传帮带”

对公共图书馆新员工的＂传帮带＂进行了总结。工作实践表明,对新员工做好＂传帮带＂,是图书馆事业发展的需要,势在必行。＂传帮带＂的实践方法,可借鉴商业世界的做法,即让新员工融入到团队中——成为团队中的一员。要针对新员工所在岗位的不同及所从事工作的差别,采取差异式的管理方式。在＂传帮带＂中,要注意适度并把握好＂度＂,不要越俎代庖,要注意帮的方式方法,要注意技巧。     

Embedded Librarians: MLS Students as Apprentice Librarians in Online Courses

ABSTRACT

Master of Library Science (MLS) students at one university are serving as apprentice “embedded” librarians in nursing courses at another university. Results of surveys of nursing students at the end of the class and reflections of the MLS students after this experience will be shared from the first semester iteration of this project. A comparison of this project with past iterations of the project will be made in the hope that the information gleaned from these interactions will help in the design of library services. Furthermore, this premise of the development of relationships in the provision of library services for distance learners will be further examined.     

国内外消费者健康信息学研究进展

[目的/意义] 旨在梳理医学信息学的分支——消费者健康信息学（CHI）领域的研究文献和研究进展,发现该领域的研究弱点与空白点。[方法/过程] 采用文本编码的方式,从CHI的范畴界定、健康信息生命周期中的典型阶段考察文献中的研究问题、变量关系等。[结果/结论] 从研究对象涉及到的技术、消费者、使命、目标、任务、学科属性等角度分别综述其界定,并提炼出一个较有解释力的内涵;依据文章界定的CHI内涵,依次梳理消费者健康信息需求、搜寻、获取、接受、利用和评价的具体表现和影响因素等。     

Reference Librarians in the Information Age:

Reference service has existed in public and academic libraries for over one hundred years, but as libraries move into an age of increasing technology, many traditional methods for providing reference service will no longer be adequate. By examinmg reference services of the past and present, reference librarians can learn from the mistakes and successes of their predecessors to better plan for the future. Reference librarians must be committed to retaining the most successful ideas from the past and giving up the least successful. This critical examination of past services must also be coupled with a visionary and risk-taking outlook for what is needed in the future if reference librarians are to remain a vital part of the information age.     

信息时代的图书馆和图书馆员

随着21世纪的来临,人类社会即将迈入一个崭新的信息时代.信息资源作为现代社会的三大支柱资源之一,在社会与经济发展中起着巨大的作用.     

Humanities Reference Librarians in the Electronic Age

Abstract

Humanists build new ideas and arguments based upon studies done in the past. Although research requires these scholars to pick through the literature that has come before, much has been lost because of the lack of adequate comprehensive reference tools. In the age of technology, new projects are available which enhance and enlarge the body of work upon which future scholars can build. For reference librarians helping with research questions in the humanities, the marriage of traditional reference tools and new on-line resources means a richer cumulation of past scholarship. In this paper, I will discuss strategies for academic humanities reference librarians to integrate traditional and electronic reference resources, and the need to continue learning the skills to use both. Humanities reference librarians must continue the great humanist tradition of building new ideas upon older foundations by successfully acquiring and using both new and old reference resources.