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Leonard Lief Library Sony Reader Program: Leading Cuny In Digital Media Technology, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, Adelaide Soto
Leonard Lief Library Sony Reader Program: Leading Cuny In Digital Media Technology, Stefanie Havelka, Jennifer A. King, Adelaide Soto
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Making Twitter Work: A Guide For The Uninitiated, The Skeptical, And The Pragmatic, Valerie Forrestal
Making Twitter Work: A Guide For The Uninitiated, The Skeptical, And The Pragmatic, Valerie Forrestal
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This article highlights the advantages of librarians and libraries establishing a professional or institutional presence on Twitter. This basic introduction to the web service also discusses innovative ways to shape your Twitter account into a successful professional development, reference, and outreach resource.
The Informationist: Ten Years Later, Mark Aaron Polger
The Informationist: Ten Years Later, Mark Aaron Polger
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The article explores the last 10 years of literature relating to Davidoff and Florance’s informationist concept. An informationist provides many of the same services as a medical librarian, is a permanent member of the clinical team, and resides on the clinical floors. The author explores the job functions of the informationist and examines whether this service has come to fruition. The author argues that the informationist service can only be fully realized in large academic health sciences libraries, large teaching hospitals, and medical research organizations such as the National Institutes of Health. To facilitate this argument, a questionnaire was distributed …
Information Takeout And Delivery: A Case Study Exploring Different Library Service Delivery Models, Mark Aaron Polger
Information Takeout And Delivery: A Case Study Exploring Different Library Service Delivery Models, Mark Aaron Polger
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This article explores the transformation from the traditional service delivery model of a hospital library (patrons come to the library to request materials and information) to a more dynamic service delivery model where library staff deliver all services on clinical floors, participate in clinical rounds, and teach in staff and physician offices. This model is similar to the “informationist role.” The article discusses the “Information Takeout and Delivery Service” model and includes usage statistics comparing 2005 to 2008. It also shows that data from a questionnaire of 50 library users who were identified as “active library users” illustrate that this …