Access to medical knowledge
Subtitle: libraries, digitization, and the public good
By: Frances K. Groen.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780810852723; 9780810852723
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Librarians and their values; title: Librarians, values, and the public good; title: The origin of medical librarianship; title: Early days in the profession; title: The emergence of the medical library in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1940; title: The war and after, 1940-1960; title: Gaining ground in medical libraries, 1960-1990; title: Medical libraries in the age of the Internet; title: Digitization and the Internet: a revolutionary context; title: Consumer and patient information: convergence on the Internet; title: New approaches to clinical medical information; title: Is there a better way?; title: The economics of scientific and medical information; title: Toward open access; title: New solutions in access to medical information; title: Controlling copyright: the necessary balance.