Digital Libraries in a Clinical Setting: Friend or Foe?
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Clinical requirements for quick accessibility to reputable, up-todate information have increased the importance of web accessible digital libraries for this user community. To understand the social and organisational impacts of ward -accessible digital libraries (DLs) for clinicians, we conducted a study of clinicians’ perceptions of electronic information resources within a large London based hospital. The results hig hlight that although these resources appear to be a relatively innocuous means of information provision (i.e. no sensitive data) social and organisational issues can impede effective technology deployment. Clinical social structures , which produce information and technology hoarding behaviours can result from poor training, support and DL usability.
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