A medical society trustee looks at his library

Speculative expression has been given to the idea that physicians should prove their continuing education by periodic examinations. With this thought in mind, it was decided that the Denver Medical Society Library should be continued and supported for at least ten years and, that at the end of this time, the entire situation would be re-evaluated in connection with the changing trends in medicine.     

National library of medicine regional medical library program

The National Library of Medicine is charged with the development and management of a National Biomedical Communications Network. The Regional Medical Library Program is a forerunner of such a network; the product and institutions involved will be critical elements in its evolution. The immediate objective of the RMLP, the facilitation of biomedical information transfer, presents a logistical problem requiring substantial commitment from the health sciences community and extensive cooperation among libraries in each region.     

发挥图书馆在建设学习型社会中的作用

本文结合图书馆的实际，提出抓好图书馆的队伍优良、环境优化和服务优质三大问题，是提高图书馆员整体素质、强化服务功能、适时跟进构建学习型社会的有效路径。     

Moving a medical center library

The relocation of a medical center library collection of 30,000 book and journal volumes and 600 audiovisuals is described. The planning and moving procedures which facilitated the move are detailed. A bibliography of the library literature concerning library moves is attached.     

Regional medical library program development

The National Library of Medicine has published a new set of guidelines for the development of its Regional Medical Library Program. This article is a working paper that attempts to review the possible consequences to the informal national medical library network which presently exists. It reviews the relationship of medical libraries to their parent institutions and the responsibilities of different library units to each other in their efforts to accomplish RML objectives.     

Implementing PDA technology in a medical library: experiences in a hospital library and an academic medical center library

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have grown from being a novelty in the late 1990s to an essential tool for healthcare professionals in the 2000s. This paper describes the experiences of a librarian who implemented PDA technology first in a hospital library, and then at an academic medical center library. It focuses on the role of the library in supporting PDA technology and resources. Included are programmatic issues such as training for library staff and clinicians, and technical issues such as Palm and Windows operating systems. This model could be used in either a hospital or academic health sciences library.