Professional Aspects of Law Librarianship

Miles O. Price and Education for Law Librarianship

Telemedicine: academic and professional aspects.

Doctors have recently gained substantial experience of using telemedical applications for consultations, education and training, and conferences. What is still lacking is systematic evaluation of these new approaches compared with traditional procedures. Trials involving consultations for diagnostic, monitoring, and interpretative purposes should be blinded and multicentred, and should include ...

Unity in diversity: toward a common professional vision of health sciences librarianship.

A redefinition of librarianship is necessary to respond to the ever-changing environment. Librarians must view their profession more broadly, because they are part of a network of relationships. To meet these challenges, health information professionals must commit to spending the time necessary to engage in both professional and personal growth.

Vision: The Essence of Professionalism and Key to the Future of Law Librarianship as a Profession*

* © Dennis S. Sears, 2006. ** Senior Law Librarian, Howard W. Hunter Law Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1. See E.A. Feazel, The Status of the Law Librarian, 2 LAW. LIBR. J. 21 (1909). For a more recent perspective, see Richard A. Danner, Redefining a Profession, 90 LAW. LIBR. J. 315 (1998). 2. “‘[T]he calling or occupation which one professes to understand and follow; a vocatio...

Aspects of Professional Burnout among Nurses

This paper focuses on the job-related burnout among nurses working in Romanian public hospitals. The correlational study conducted on a convenience sample of 106 nurses working in two public hospitals aimed at highlighting aspects related to the perceived intensity of specific burnout emotional and behavioral manifestations among nurses and their relationships with other variables, i.e. age, le...