2022 Janet Doe Lecture, health science libraries in the emerging digital information era: charting the course.

ABSTRACT: The great challenge medical library professionals are facing is how we evolve and respond to the emerging digital era. If we successfully understand and adapt to the emerging digital information environment, medical librarians/Health Information Professionals (HIPs) can play an even greater role in the advance in the health care of our nation and its residents. The opportunities and challenges are at the level we successfully responded to in the late 1960's and the 1970's under the leadership of the National Library of Medicine with its MEDLARS/Medline programs and Medical Library Assistance Act which enabled medical libraries to enter what I have referred to as The Golden Age of Medical Libraries. In this presentation, I focused on the transition of the health-related print Knowled

SUBMITTER: Kronenfeld M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10259618 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature