The Associate Program at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the oldest postgraduate training program for health sciences librarians in the United States. Despite the program's longevity, few data have been collected about the educational background or subsequent careers of the NLM Associates. This article describes one such study. When the study was conducted in 1990, 130 Associates had ...

The author shows brief information about the Technical Сommittee for standardization “Scientific and technical information, librarianship publishing” (GOST TC 191). Committee today based on State Public Scientific Library of Russia. presents work overview current standards editorial publishing. analyzes evaluates development fund in this area new projects National Standardization Program Russia...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 596–612. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Contemporary literature on the divergence of libraries, archives, and museums over the course of the twentieth century credits the rise of distinct professional practices required to h...

Rickey D. Best is Dean and Jason Kneip is Archivist/Special Collections Librarian of the Auburn University at Montgomery Library; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]. ©Rickey D. Best and Jason Kneip This article relates an investigation of tenure and promotion practices for librarians at academic institutions. The study employed two surveys. The first survey determined the level of impact ...

THE LIBRARY PROFESSION PROCLAIMS ITSELF to be a proponent of both the Information Age and of equity for women and people of color. Yet certain features of the Information Age appear to be inhospitable to the goals of gender equity and there is a long history of gender stratification, with men favored for top positions in the profession. Structural changes brought about by the Information Age ma...

HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF DIABETIC PATIENTS Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi, Anasik Lalazaryan, Alireza Rahimi. Associate Professor of Department of Medical Librarianship and Information Science, Health InformationTechnology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Master of Art. Medical Librarianship and Information Science, Department of Management and Me...

The library professional is an active actor in the information society and the professional identity is affected by societal and cultural phenomena as well as technological changes. The library users’ changing information behavior, different forms of information, and information overload challenge the professional perspective; what is the core expertise of the library profession and what new sk...

The patients' library movement in the United States, a dynamic, cohesive drive begun and sustained by librarians and physicians, strove to promote placement of organized libraries for patients in hospitals. It took shape in the early years of this century, evolving from its proponents' deeply held conviction that books and reading foster the rehabilitation of sick people. The American Library A...