Health sciences librarians function in environments that are constantly undergoing rapid and drastic changes in a range of divergent arenas, including scientific, technological, social, political, and financial changes. To keep up with these changes, health sciences librarians require lifelong learning opportunities. The Medical Library Association (MLA) recommends that library educators provid...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom LA1 4YQ. 2 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4AP. 3 Current address: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4AP. Email: sjt...

The Library Series of the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly in the humanities and the social sciences CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture publishes scholarship in the humanities and social sciences following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the CLCWeb Librar...

Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi, Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi. PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library,...

Drug Design and Development Research Center, Tehran University of Medicinal Sciences, Tehran, Iran Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medicinal Sciences, Tehran, Iran Medicinal and Natural Product Chemistry Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran *E-mail: [email protected] Received December 9, 2012 DOI 10.1002/jh...

The Library Series of the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly in the humanities and the social sciences CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture publishes scholarship in the humanities and social sciences following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the CLCWeb Librar...

The Library Series of the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly in the humanities and the social sciences CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture publishes scholarship in the humanities and social sciences following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the CLCWeb Librar...

This paper presents a framework for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of digital libraries of various kinds. The framework consists of six attribute groupings (audience; institution; access; content; services; design and development). Each attribute grouping contains a number attributes expressed as continua, or dimensions. This framework allows us to think about digital libraries in a...

Mediated search services, usually offered for a fee, are commonplace in academic health sciences libraries. At the same time, users of these services have numerous self-service options available to them; for example, CD-ROMs and locally mounted databases. In keeping with its philosophy of access to rather than ownership of information, the University of Washington Health Sciences Library and In...