Medical record administrators and management of the rural hospital library.

摘要

IN small rural communities, the primary source for biomedical literature should be the hospital library. A role of the hospital library must be to provide a well-managed collection of research materials on the local level, and to interface with the state and regional library networks. Yet "fewer than 10% of all hospitals with less than 100 beds provide information services that meet even the very minimal standards promulgated by the American Library Association, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, or the Department of Health, Education and Welfare" [1]. Even among hospitals that have a library, fewer than one in six is staffed by a professional librarian [2].