Making an impact: the new 2024 Medical Library Association research agenda.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This research project sought to identify those subject areas that leaders and researcher members of the Medical Library Association (MLA) determined to be of greatest importance for research investigation. It updates two previous studies conducted in 2008 and 2011.

Methods

The project involved a three-step Delphi process aimed at collecting the most important and researchable questions facing the health sciences librarianship profession. First, 495 MLA leaders were asked to submit questions answerable by known research methods. Submitted questions could not exceed 50 words in length. There were 130 viable, unique questions submitted by MLA leaders. Second, the authors asked 200 eligible MLA-member researchers to select the five (5) most important and answerable que

SUBMITTER: Ascher M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11835027 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature