Serving the Biomedical Research Community
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The document discusses changing roles for libraries and librarians in serving the biomedical research community. It outlines new roles like informationists, outreach, and increasing the library's virtual presence. It also covers challenges around scholarly communication and increasing the visibility of the library to faculty and students. The opportunities discussed include shaping open access initiatives and digital repositories as well as increasing library spaces and services.
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Serving the Biomedical Research Community
- 1. Serving the Biomedical Research Community Future Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities Melissa Rethlefsen 5/4/05
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- In 1945, Vannevar Bush imagined a future where individuals would have their own mechanized information system; his imagined device, the Memex, would contain books, records, and communications which could be deftly manipulated and organized at the touch of a button. Though some later visions of fully electronic libraries have not yet come to pass, Bushâs vision of a paperless information system was eerily prescient; technology has allowed the individual to access, store, and manage information in amazing ways. For example, people can now access journal articles 24 hours a day, create and organize personalized databases, and make their research available across the world instantaneously. As technology progressed through the past 6 decades, library staff have recognized that their traditional roles and duties required adaptation to the new information society. Technology has changed libraries and library staff forever. Contrary to fears of obsolescence such as those evoked by Katherine Hepburnâs character in the 1957 movie, Desk Set, library staff are still needed in an automated environment. Automation has merely allowed us to take on new roles and opportunities to better serve our communities. Today, I am going to briefly talk about some of the challenges health sciences libraries face in todayâs environment, as well as the opportunities we have to meet these challenges and the new roles we are taking on. Sapp, G., & Gilmour, R. (2002). A brief history of the future of academic libraries: predictions and speculations from the literature of the profession, 1975 to 2000--part one, 1975 to 1989--. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2 (4), 553-576. Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. Atlantic Monthly, 176 (1), 101-108. Fully electronic libraries: Lancaster, F. W. (1978). Toward paperless information systems . New York: Academic Press. Thompson, J. (1983). The end of libraries . London: Clive Bingley.