BACKGROUND The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a grant by the National Library of Medicine to study the education and training needs of present and future medical librarians and health information specialists through a collaboration of the university's School of Information Sciences and Health Sciences Library System. Goals and objectives for the year-long project included (1) assessment o...

This article investigates negotiations of librarians’ expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitative empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians’ expertise emer...

Additional copies are available for $15.00 from the address noted above. Orders must be prepaid, with checks made payable to the Council on Library and Information Resources. Preface The Web is spawning a large mass of information of varying quality and value. From that huge, undifferentiated mass, librarians must sift carefully and assiduously to find material for their patrons that is valuabl...

This article investigates negotiations of librarians’ expertise in relation to information literacy at the micro-level, specifically in the domain of nursing education. A qualitaitve empirical framework is employed. The study draws on 18 semi-structured interviews, 16 with Swedish nursing students, one with a librarian and one with a nursing professor. Three themes on librarians’ expertise emer...

INTHE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, ethnic professional associations have been organized by American librarians of various ethnicities. These associations fill a niche in the profession not met by other associations. This article explores several such organizations to understand their origins and roles among the professional associations in library and information science. The associations examined are...

Purpose – The prevalence of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education is well-documented and has been promoted in the UK by government-funded projects, but there has been little empirical research on the level of involvement of subject librarians with VLEs. The survey was designed to investigate how VLEs are affecting the work of subject librarians and to examine factors influenc...

introduction: the scientific, technical, economic and social development of a society is closely connected to the amount of information produced by its managers, researcher and scholars. in this study, the necessity of the librarians and medical informants' cooperation in the approved research plans of iums was investigated. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the partici...