January 2012
5 posts
Blog Question re: Advocacy
A reader of the blog sent me the following question: “I am wondering where the patrons of these libraries will now go for information?”
That’s a great question, and one of the fundamental concerns raised by these closures for our health sciences librarians’ community of practice. Some hospitals and healthcare systems are making arrangements for licensing point-of-care databases and other...
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Advocacy for Hospital Libraries: Everyone has a...
In 2011 two hospital libraries closed in the metropolitan Denver area. Both were part of the MedConnect consortium headquartered at the Library I direct, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Library. Both had outstanding librarians but that did not save their libraries. In the case of one, the librarian was but one of several hundred employees laid-off at once. At the other, the library...
