Special report: symposium on transformational change in health sciences libraries: space, collections, and roles

Abstract

What is the role of the library in the 21 st century? What roles will computers and books play as libraries reinvent themselves as knowledge management centers? What will these new physical and virtual information hubs look like? What exciting models already exist and what lessons do these teach?A robust renaissance is underway in the world of libraries and, with this special issue of NEWSLINE, we give you a ringside seat. We examine the questions above and many more, culling information from the proceedings of "The Library as Place," a symposium held at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, November 5-6, 2003. Cosponsored by NLM and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the event featured presenters from the realms of academia, the library community, industry, research laboratories and architecture. Organizers of the symposium for NLM were Becky J. Lyon, Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations, and Susan P. Buyer, Chief, Office of Planning and Analysis. Members of the organizing committee for AAHSL were Rick Forsman, University of Colorado, David Ginn, Boston University and Logan Ludwig, Loyola University.A DVD version of the "Library as Place" symposium is now available for a $10 shipping and handling fee from AAHSL. The next best thing to being there, this easily searchable product is innovative, interactive, multi-windowed and complete. Employing either visual reference or text search tools, users of this DVD can go immediately to any point in the two-day conference to view videos of presenters in one window, simultaneously bring up the accompanying visuals in a second "zoom window (to expand their size), and in a third, scroll through a "thumbnail" set of the entire presentation, select one slide and have both the video and "zoom" windows move to that exact point in the presentation.English-language captioning of the conference's 13 total hours of video is provided, as is a five-minute introductory "highlights" video. Other firsts include video interviews with the conference's 19 poster presenters and digital photographs of their posters, plus biographies of all presenters and interviews with several of them.

Global trends health science libraries: Part 3

“…In the years ahead, health science libraries will continue to move from a goods‐based economy (books) to a service‐based economy (reference), and to experience‐based economy. (Lynn et al, 2011, p85‐86).…”

Evolution, revolution, or obsolescence: an examination of writings on the future of health sciences libraries

“…Even a 2011 published report coming out of a symposium focusing on the question of the role of the library in the twenty-first century and cosponsored by the National Library of Medicine and AAHSL failed to address skills needed beyond the next decadespecifically those skills such as designing systems to capture tacit knowledge, quality filtering, linking evidence into EHRs, and so on-skills required by the knowledge manager of the future to ensure success [16].…”

How to modernize without compromising history: a case study of the Franzello Aeromedical Library’s journey in updating collections, capabilities, and facilities

“…In a special report funded by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Health and Human Services, Lynn, FitzSimmons, and Robinson wrote that library users will have less time, more needs, and a desire for information rapidly [3]. Thibodeu also suggested that future roles of librarians should be expanded to include partner, collaborator, advisor, evidence-based medicine expert, educator, and information filter.…”

“…Thibodeu also suggested that future roles of librarians should be expanded to include partner, collaborator, advisor, evidence-based medicine expert, educator, and information filter. Librarians should be informers of system designs and make libraries more valueable [3].…”