Purpose – Information ethics, as is well known, has emerged as an independent area of ethical and philosophical inquiry. There are a number of academic journals that are devoted entirely to the numerous ethical issues that arise in connection with the new information communication technologies; these issues include a host of intellectual property, information privacy, and security issues of con...

Introduction. Uncertainty is understood as an important component of the information seeking process, but it has not been explored as a component of reference and information service. Method. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to examine the practitioner perspective of reference and information service for eight academic research librarians in the United States. Analysis. Data we...

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 fr...

The transition of traditional library collections to digital or virtual collections presented the librarian with new opportunities. The Internet, Web environment and associated sophisticated tools have given the librarian a new dynamic role to play and serve the new information based society in better ways than hitherto. Because of the powerful features of Web i.e. distributed, heterogeneous, c...

errors and variations in interpretation can happen in clinical imaging. few studies have examined the biased effect of clinical information on reporting of brain ct scans. in a blinded double crossover design, we studied whether three radiologists were biased by clinical information when making ct scan diagnosis of the brain. three consultant radiologists in three rounds with at least a one-mon...