미국 의과대학 도서관 정보서비스 현황 연구

김희정¹

Information Service Trends Analysis of Medical Libraries in the United States of America

Heejung Kim¹

¹국제백신연구소 정보자료실

¹International Vaccine Institute, Library and Information Service Center, Seoul, Korea

ⓒ Copyright 2011 The Korean Medical Library Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Dec 30, 2011

Abatract

In this study, ten top ranked medical schools in the United States were selected and the author reviewed current information services provided by each medical library. As a result, various education and online tutorials were performed commonly. Above this, diverse information services, such as professional liaison service, chat reference interface, and open access, were conducted.

Keywords: Chat reference; Information service; Liaison service; Medical library; Online tutorial