Slide Notes
1. Medical Library Collections
2. How will medical library collections and services change in the 21st century?
3. Collections and materials
4. The journal literature is still the most important resource
5. What e-journals are available?
6. Open Access journals
7. PubMed Central
8. BioMed Central
9. PLoS- Public Library of Science
10. HINARI
11. INASP
12. Indexing and abstracting tools are still key resources
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13. MEDLINE® is first choice
14. List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE®
15. Other indexes of choice
16. Textbooks remain popular
17. Three commercial sources
18. MDConsult
19. StatRef
20. McGraw-Hills ACCESSMedicine
21. Reference books are still vital tools
22. eReference Tools are available
23. Both Textbooks and Reference Books are changing.
24. Media remain important
25. Other items are also useful
26. Consumer and Patient Education materials are increasing in number
27. A good list of all the types of materials is available
28. From a list of most widely used reference materials
29. Future challenges for collections
30. More challenges
31. Will these resources be available in medical libraries in Vietnam?
32. What about services?
33. Reference services
34. Circulation services
35. Educational services
36. Media & Computer services
37. Remote services
38. Knowledge creation
39. Consumer health & patient education services
40. Slide 40
First we will see pictures of three patient and consumer health libraries in Pittsburgh. This is the largest patient/family library in Pittsburgh, located in a large medical/surgical hospital..
41. Slide 41
This is the library for parents and siblings of patients at the Pittsburgh childrens hospital.
42. Can these new services work in medical libraries in Vietnam?