Satellite stories: capturing professional experiences of academic health sciences librarians working in delocalized health sciences programs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health sciences training programs have progressively expanded onto satellite campuses, allowing students the opportunity to learn in communities away from an academic institution's main campus. This expansion has encouraged a new role for librarians to assume, in that a subset of health sciences librarians identify as "satellite librarians" who are permanently located at a distance from the main campus. Due to the unique nature of this role and lack of existing data on the topic, the authors investigated the experiences and perceptions of this unique group of information professionals.

Methods

An electronic survey was distributed to health sciences librarians via two prominent North American email discussion lists. Questions addressed the librarians' demographics,

SUBMITTER: Phinney J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764596 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature