Role of Librarians in Promotion of e- Resources in Health Science Libraries in India
Kelly Smith October 22nd, 2008
Proposed abstract:
The objective of the research paper was to know the librarian’s role in the promotion of e-resources for the patient care, learning, teaching and research for the medical professionals in Indian Health Science Libraries (IHSL). In the present era, the abundance of information is available in the form of e-resources such as e-books, e-journals, online databases, reference works, back files and internet. E-resources have become an integral part of the libraries due to prohibitive publishing cost, easy management, quick access and changing attitude of the users. The advent of the Internet and e-resources has brought many opportunities and challenges in the provision of library & information services in the health science libraries worldwide. This paper looks at some ways and means to promote e-resources, making these important collections more visible, accessible, useful and relevant to the medical professionals. It was concluded that majority of the medical professionals of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh were very much inclined to use e-resources and they are well aware of e-resources made available by the Institutes Library in their day to day clinical practice. The study aims at ascertaining the e-resources literacy among the users and to the information providers. The paper recognizes the challenges that Librarians face in their endeavour to satisfy the users’ needs in the revolution of e-resources.
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