Health Centre Staff Are Satisfied with Librarian-Mediated Search Services, Especially When Librarians Follow Up

Sami speakers are less satisfied with general practitioners' services.

OBJECTIVES The government's Action Plan for Health and Social Services states as a goal that the Sami population's encounter with health and social services should be just as good as what the rest of the population experiences. The goal of this study is to investigate patient satisfaction with the municipal GP service in areas with both a Sami and Norwegian population. STUDY DESIGN A cross-se...

Evaluation of hospital staff’s perceived quality of librarian-mediated literature searching services*,†

OBJECTIVE The research evaluated the perceived quality of librarian-mediated literature searching services at one of Canada's largest acute care teaching hospitals for the purpose of continuous quality improvement and investigation of relationships between variables that can impact user satisfaction. METHODS An online survey was constructed using evidence-based methodologies. A systematic sam...

Health Services Management Centre

The information Services Librarian*

Libraries appear to be in a period of great change and the major reason for this has been the increasing availability of machine-readable data bases and the information retrieval systems based on these. A number of data bases producers have established networks on national and international level in order to make services from these data bases widely available. The fact that few individual inst...

Digital Librarian, Cybrarian, or Librarian with Specialized Skills: Who Will Staff Digital Libraries?

Linda Marion is a doctoral student at Drexel University. E-mail: [email protected]. Abstract This exploratory study examined 250 online academic librarian employment ads posted during 2000 to determine current requirements for technologically oriented jobs. A content analysis software program was used to categorize the specific skills and characteristics listed in the ads. The results wer...