South Australian hospital libraries 1956–1980: an incomplete history

An Australian Hospital Scenario

In the early 2000s, Information Systems researchers in Australia had begun to emphasise socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption of technologies. The ‘essentialist’ approaches to adoption (for example, Innovation Diffusion or TAM), suggest an essence is largely responsible for rate of adoption (Tatnall, 2011) or a new technology introduced may spark innovation. The socio-technical fact...

The history of neuroradiology: an Australian perspective.

On December 28, 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen presented his classic written preliminary communication regarding x-rays to the president of the Physical Medical Society of Wurzburg, Germany, and 9 days later his discovery was announced to the world. Despite a lack of modern communication methods, within months of Roentgen’s discovery, human radiographs were being produced in Australia by individual sci...

An atlas of six South Australian communities

The South Australian Curriculum

Standards for hospital libraries 2002.

The Medical Library Association's "Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002" have been developed as a guide for hospital administrators, librarians, and accrediting bodies to ensure that hospitals have the resources and services to effectively meet their needs for knowledge-based information. Specific requirements for knowledge-based information include that the library be a separate department wi...