Is the informationist a new role? A logic model analysis.

摘要

Over the years, trained medical librarians have entered different career streams with different job titles, such as biomedical librarian, health information specialist, clinical librarian, hospital librarian, liaison librarian, knowledge manager, and informationist. All these roles share the same general goal— providing health care information to clients—and fall into the general career of medical librarianship. But do these job titles reflect significant differences in job work? While the library literature often describes these roles as distinct, opinions vary, and no systematic analysis has been used to describe and compare them.