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PubMed1980

Circulation versus photocopy: Quid pro Quo?

Information thought necessary for assessing the potential impact of a limited journal circulation policy at the University of California, San Francisco, included the effects on seating, on in-house photocopying, and on circulation. An initial survey during a "typical circulation" week showed journal circulation to be 71% of the total, with journals issued during the past five years comprising 45% of the total. A survey of user photocopying practice suggested that circulation limited to journals more than five years old might result in a 90% increase in photocopying, and results of the circulation survey were used to predict a 45% decrease in circulation. Results of implementing a limited circulation policy were a 41% decrease in circulation and a 136% increase in photocopy. Differences between prediction and results may be accounted for by the effect of duplicate copy subscriptions and by provision of convenient photocopy facilities.

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PubMed1980

Where there is no vision the people perish.

Forces are already in motion that will change the future of health sciences librarianship. In addition to changes in academic health centers, changes in the publishing industry, the mode of delivering information by librarians, the use of computers to manipulate and make information available, the user's access to information, and communications technology are briefly described. The author proposes that health sciences librarians can participate in the creative process of constructing their professional future by being informed, expanding cooperative efforts, planning, ceasing a romanticized view of the profession, and becoming achievers rather than sustainers.

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PubMed1995

A systematic approach to finding answers over the Internet.

New users often are surprised at how chaotic the Internet appears. They have heard so much about it and then find that it is a jumble of menus and resources. Even so, it is possible to find answers to reference questions on the Internet. This paper outlines a method for doing so. The method involves five steps: gather information and tools, learn the terminology, assemble a manual, write a strategy, and make bookmarks. The paper offers medical reference scenarios that illustrate how to search a database, find a program, find a document, and telnet to another site on the Internet.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1995

From information statics to information dynamics. The developing world has no alternative.

Libraries as presently constituted are essentially static paper-containing information systems often enclosed in massive specific spaces. The new electronic systems are by their very nature dynamic global systems that take up almost no space. Static information systems evolved from clay tablets to papyrus scrolls to parchment and finally to paper produced in vast quantities by the printing press. Medical and scientific journals have been growing exponentially since the seventeeth century as have the static paper-based libraries. This growth has been non-Darwinian, being outside of the laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Thus, the great majority of medical information is uncited and unread. Moreover, the vast investment in static libraries in the developed world has inhibited the development of modern electronic systems. In contrast, the developing world is largely bereft of such institutions, and has the unique opportunity to leap unencumbered by the static past into the far more efficient and dynamic electronic future.

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PubMed1994

Community hospitals and the Internet: lessons from pilot connections.

Community hospitals in rural and isolated areas have had little access to the Internet. In 1992, the National Library of Medicine funded a pilot project to be conducted by the University of Washington and seven community hospitals in the northwestern United States. The goals of the project were to connect the hospitals to the Internet and study the uses made of this resource. A number of administrative, technical, financial, and organizational problems were dealt with in the attempt to establish the Internet connections and introduce this resource to these health care settings. This paper examines these issues and presents conclusions drawn from the experiences of the project team.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1994

Navigating the Internet.

Navigating any complex set of information resources requires tools for both browsing and searching. A number of tools are available today for using Internet resources, and more are being developed. This article reviews existing navigational tools, including two developed at the Yale University School of Medicine, and points out their strengths and weaknesses. A major shortcoming of the present Internet navigation methods is the lack of controlled descriptions of the available resources. As a result, navigating the Internet is very difficult.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1994

The Internet: will this highway serve the digital library?

The future of the biomedical enterprise and the biomedical libraries that serve it is tied closely to digital information. The changing nature of this type of information will create new pressures on libraries, particularly in health care organizations. Libraries must learn to deal with these pressures. Currently, libraries depend on the Internet primarily for connections to resources and other libraries; thus enhancements to the Internet will impact the libraries of the present and future significantly. This paper provides an overview of the technical capabilities that will be available in the near to midterm, what libraries will be able to do with those capabilities, and how libraries can position themselves to take advantage of the impending changes.

Computer Communication Networks↗