J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Apr;97(2):139-42.
Embedded librarians: one library's model for decentralized service.Freiburger G, Kramer S.
Arizona Health Sciences Library, 1501 North Campbell Avenure P.O. Box 245079, Tucson, AZ 85724-5079, USA. garyf@ahsl.arizona.edu
PMID: 19404507 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC2670204
***The full text is available for free in PMC***
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Librarians' Journal Club Article for 07/16/09 Meeting
Med Ref Serv Q. 2009 Summer;28(2):133-42.
Virtual reference: chat with us!
Lapidus M, Bond I.
Henrietta DeBenedictus Health Sciences Library, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
mariana.lapidus@mcphs.edu
Virtual chat services represent an exciting way to provide patrons of medical libraries with instant reference help in an academic environment. The purpose of this article is to examine the implementation, marketing process, use, and development of a virtual reference service initiated at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and its three-campus libraries. In addition, this paper will discuss practical recommendations for the future improvement of the service.
PMID: 19384714 [PubMed - in process]
Virtual reference: chat with us!
Lapidus M, Bond I.
Henrietta DeBenedictus Health Sciences Library, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
mariana.lapidus@mcphs.edu
Virtual chat services represent an exciting way to provide patrons of medical libraries with instant reference help in an academic environment. The purpose of this article is to examine the implementation, marketing process, use, and development of a virtual reference service initiated at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and its three-campus libraries. In addition, this paper will discuss practical recommendations for the future improvement of the service.
PMID: 19384714 [PubMed - in process]
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Librarians' Journal Club Article for 05/21/09 Meeting
J of Hospital Librarianship, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2009 pp. 8-14
"The Impact of Loss of Access to a Point-of-Care Resource: A Case Study of the North Carolina AHEC Digital Library"
Libraries have long relied on statistics to prove value, to justify budgetary expenditiures, and to be the foundation for outcomes measurements. In September, 2007, the NC AHEC Digital Library monthly stats measured the first ever decline in both logins and linkouts when compared to the same months of the previous year.
When this trend continued through the end of 2007, the library staff undertook a statistical analysis and an environmental scan to determine why the monthly stats were dropping (as compared to the previous year). This paper discusses the results of that analysis indicating that the drop in usage stats correlated to the loss of access to Up-To-Date for the portal users.
"The Impact of Loss of Access to a Point-of-Care Resource: A Case Study of the North Carolina AHEC Digital Library"
Libraries have long relied on statistics to prove value, to justify budgetary expenditiures, and to be the foundation for outcomes measurements. In September, 2007, the NC AHEC Digital Library monthly stats measured the first ever decline in both logins and linkouts when compared to the same months of the previous year.
When this trend continued through the end of 2007, the library staff undertook a statistical analysis and an environmental scan to determine why the monthly stats were dropping (as compared to the previous year). This paper discusses the results of that analysis indicating that the drop in usage stats correlated to the loss of access to Up-To-Date for the portal users.
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