OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to apply J. Richard Hackman's framework on team effectiveness to academic medical library settings. METHODS The study uses a qualitative, multiple case study design, employing interviews and focus groups to examine team effectiveness in three academic medical libraries. Another site was selected as a pilot to validate the research design, field proced...

purpose: this research is to present a plan to improve information services in libraries of islamic of azad university, so that more proper services can be presented to the university community through studying the processes. methodology: this research is descriptive survey. the target population includes 75 central, main units of libraries. collecting information tool is a questionnaire with 3...

The article discusses an Ariel document delivery project with seven Maine hospital libraries, the University of Massachusetts Medical School Library (UMass), and the New England Regional office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Funding was awarded to six network members to purchase equipment or Ariel software. UMass served as a document provider. During the test, libraries recei...

PURPOSE The paper reviews and analyzes the evolution of the open access (OA) publishing movement and its impact on the traditional scholarly publishing model. PROCEDURES A literature survey and analysis of definitions of OA, problems with the current publishing model, historical developments, funding agency responses, stakeholder viewpoints, and implications for scientific libraries and publi...

Semantic Browsing provides contextualized dynamically generated Web content customizing the knowledge to better meet user expectations. The real-world medical digital library, the National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI, www.neli.org.uk), enriched with an infection domain ontology enables new semantic services to be developed qualitatively. In this paper, we will address the use of group...

introduction: the purpose of this study was determine the application of knowledge management among the staff members of central, faculty, and hospital libraries at tabriz university of medical sciences (tabriz, iran), based on hissig model. hissig model consists of four processes including knowledge creation, storage, sharing, and application. methods: this descriptive survey included all of t...