Side-by-side, but from different worlds: service and resource provision by academic health sciences libraries to their affiliated hospitals

Academic health sciences libraries and affiliated hospitals: a conversation about licensing electronic resources

“…Neither Brown and Kaste's survey [7] nor previous AAHSL surveys [1,[15][16][17][18][19] obtained information about how libraries provided electronic resources to private practice providers associated with the affiliated hospitals. In this survey, 84% of libraries reported providing some access to private practice providers, with 42% of libraries providing remote access.…”

“…In 2007, Brown and Kaste surveyed academic health sciences libraries with an affiliated teaching hospital. Of the 55 responses received, 87% reported sharing licenses for some or all the library's resources with the primary affiliated teaching hospital [7].…”

“…In 2007, Brown and Kaste administered a twenty-five-item questionnaire to AAHSL libraries to explore services and online resources that the academic health sciences libraries provide to their institutions' primary affiliated teaching hospitals [7]. AAHSL defines primary affiliated teaching hospitals as those contractually bound to support clinical training of medical students and residents from the academic institution's medical school [18].…”

“…Brown and Kaste's study offered more details than the AAHSL surveys about how academic health sciences libraries licensed, funded, and administered access to electronic resources for affiliated teaching hospitals. However, Brown and Kaste only asked about a library's practices related to its institution's "primary affiliated teaching hospital," whereas 77% of the 109 libraries with affiliated hospitals in the 2016 AAHSL Descriptive Statistics Survey reported having more than 1 affiliated hospital [7].…”

What Do They Have that We Don't Have? Local Libraries and Distance Students: Why Do Students Stray and Can We Get Them Back?

“…Military base libraries, while often better funded than public libraries, are primarily focused on serving the military base community (Shontz & Murray, 2007). Health sciences libraries also serve a specific audience, and many university-run teaching hospitals are now funded by corporations (Kastor, as cited in Brown & Kaste, 2009). It is possible that these changes in funding could herald a return to more limited accommodation of unaffiliated distance students.…”