Research Catalog

Title

Access to medical knowledge : libraries, digitization, and the public good / Frances K. Groen.

Author

Groen, Frances.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

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Description

xv, 281 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Frances K. Groen takes a penetrating look at the genesis of medical librarianship. After reviewing the literature, she concludes there are strong perennial values on which librarianship has been built and librarians have been successful in sustaining their belief system over time, even in the face of challenges."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Medical informatics > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical libraries > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical librarians > Moral and ethical aspects
• Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Access to Information > ethics
• Libraries, Medical > ethics
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• Information Management > methods
• Internet
• Libraries, Medical > history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.

Contents

Introduction : libraries as a public good - why? -- 1. Librarians, values, and the public good -- 2. Early days in the profession -- 3. The emergence of the medical library in the twentieth century, 1900-1940 -- 4. The war and after, 1940-1960 -- 5. Gaining ground in medical libraries, 1960-1990 -- 6. Digitization and the Internet : a revolutionary context for libraries -- 7. Consumer and patient information : convergence on the Internet -- 8. New approaches to clinical medical information -- 9. The economics of scientific and medical information -- 10. Toward open access -- 11. New solutions in access to medical information -- 12. Controlling copyright : the necessary balance -- Conclusion : advancing the role of the medical librarian in the public good.

ISBN

0810852721 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006020465
• 9780810852723

OCLC

• ocm70164471
• SCSB-5287946

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries