An organized library collection holds down costs by avoiding duplication of journals, books, audiovisuals and health-sciences data bases. Without a professionally staffed library, every department in the hospital may order these materials without coordinating with the other areas. Hospitals' efficient library services are necessities rather than luxuries. Everybody thinks nothing has changed since the Dewey Decimal System. Now all that's turned on its head.
Librarians are on the cutting edge of society.
Fischer J. Information brokers have all the answers. It is not. It is a cerebral exercise which over time and with practice appears deceptively easy. Finding needles in the medical haystack. With their mission of organizing information and serving users, libraries are an ideal platform for broad-based technology development and implementation.