An Assessment of A Post-Masters Internship in Biomedical Librarianship.

Abstract

A MEDICAL LIBRARY may have a different set of service priorities from other libraries because the environment in which it operates forms a highly interrelated organizational structure. The health professionals function in institutional environments with many objectives. Individuals may have to change their roles several times within the same day to attain personal and institutional goals. Similarly, the institutions which form the larger medical environment and which support medical libraries have to carry out several functions simultaneously. Because of the increasing complexity of health care the formalization of interinstitutional dependence has now become the rule rather than the exception. The medical environment is an intense knowledge industry which might be grouped into four major activities.1