Conducting a user-centered information needs assessment: The Via Christi Libraries' experience

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Perley, Cathy M ^a   Gentry, Camillia A ^b   Fleming, A Sue ^b   Sen, Kristin M ^b  

^a EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Family and Community Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERVIEW; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SELF REPORT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS; LIBRARIANS; LIBRARIES, HOSPITAL; LIBRARY SERVICES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34247356176     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.2.173     Document Type: Article

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