In 1992, as part of its high-performance computing and communications initiative, the National Library of Medicine decided to provide health sciences institutions with Internet connection grants similar to those offered to universities by the National Science Foundation. Although library involvement is not required, librarian and library uses have been the most common category in the applicatio...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to examine the contributions of Estelle Brodman, PhD, to the early application of computing technologies in health sciences libraries. METHODS A review of the literature, oral histories, and materials contained in the archives of the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine was conducted. RESULTS While the early co...

Sir William Osler bequeathed his library to McGill University in 1919; a decade later, the 8000 volumes arrived in Montreal. Then, as now, the collection consisted of primary works (“rare books”), secondary commentaries, and current works on the history of the health sciences. In the last 80 years the collection has grown considerably and the library now adds about 1,000 books to its collection...

background the importance of preserving and maintaining printed materials is crucial for the libraries. fungi play the main role in destroying wood and paper. objectives this research aimed to study and identify threatening fungal agents of library resources in isfahan university of medical sciences. materials and methods this is a descriptive analytical study. 126 samples were collected and ex...

the paper has been performed to review library administrators' strategic planning role to improve the library staff of medical sciences university of iran. the study is survey-descriptive. the statistical population consists of 50 library administrators working in iran medical sciences university, but 44 subjects responded to the questionnaire used to gather data. the reliability (91.7%) was ca...

The unique portrait of Valery P. Leonov, outstanding bibliologist, bibliography and library scientist, former long-term director the Library Academy Sciences is based on digest his scholarly works. Leonov enjoys word-wide popularity impeccable reputation. He interprets written records, book esoterically. pays serious attention to phenomenon serendipity or insight. It was he who introduced proce...

introduction: this is a descriptive study to study the conditions of hospital libraries at iran ,tehran and shahid beheshti university of medical sciences and compares the staff, printing sources, services and physical situations with “standards for hospital libraries 2002” and “standard of educational and treatment center library collection”. methods: this survey has been done on 35 hospital l...