The introduction of personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s has affected occupational therapy. Nine journals, three trade newspapers, and one series book published over an 11-year period by four English-speaking countries were catalogued for articles pertaining to computer use in occupational therapy. This investigation yielded 174 articles that were categorized by information type...

Over the past two decades, libraries have moved from being warehouses of print journals to gateways to the electronic scholarly record. ‘Gatekeepers’ is perhaps a more accurate term as universities no longer own journals. Instead we buy licences which allow only university students and staff to read these digital texts. This has undoubtedly created legal barriers to access for many outside the ...

a Sub-Committee of the Medical Section of the Library Association with the advice of leading authorities in the various departments of medicine. Its purpose is to provide a select list of books in the English language which are in steady demand, giving alternative titles under each of the main divisions or specialities of medicine. If any list of this type is to help in the selection of books, ...

Although the problem of deteriorating library materials has been the subject of numerous investigations at many of the nation's large research libraries in recent years, less attention has been given to the impact of the problem at small college libraries. This study investigates, by means of a survey, the preservation activities at the Oberlin Group of college libraries, specifically with resp...

'Rheum' comes from the Greek-a 'watery discharge' (OED)-and rheumatological literature as we scan it today has had two main historical sources for its now ever faster running river of words: (a) the spa waters and hydrology from the Middle Ages onward, beautifully illustrated in mediaeval woodcuts, and (b) the more modern mainstream of general medicine itself, even more widely and more strongly...