Improving Practices. Statistical Standards in Global Libraries

Standards for hospital libraries 2002.

The Medical Library Association's "Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002" have been developed as a guide for hospital administrators, librarians, and accrediting bodies to ensure that hospitals have the resources and services to effectively meet their needs for knowledge-based information. Specific requirements for knowledge-based information include that the library be a separate department wi...

Global Problem of Hospital Detention Practices

Although an official definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) or any other authority is currently lacking, hospital detention practices (HDP) can be described as: “refusing release of either living patients after medical discharge is clinically indicated or refusing release of bodies of deceased patients if families are unable to pay their hospital bills.” Reports of HDP are very scarc...

Standards Column -- Standards, Scalability, and the Efficiency of Digital Libraries

Improving education standards.

COVER Detail of a “wiring diagram” showing long-distance neural connections between major regions of the macaque brain. This visualization provides guidance for connecting multiple computer chips into a brainlike network. This diagram was awarded fi rst place in the illustration category in the 2012 Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. The winning entries are...

Visualizing Research Digital Libraries with Open Standards

Large scale research Digital Libraries (DLs) have a large array of potentially useful metadata. Yet, many popular DLs do not provide a convenient way to navigate the metadata or to visualize classification schema in the user session. For example, in the broad world of Management Information Systems (MIS) research, a high-level overview of MIS topics and their interrelationships would be useful ...