Sustaining Librarian Vitality: Embedded Librarianship Model for Health Sciences Libraries

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-265

  Wu, Lin ^a   Mi, Misa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded librarians; embedded librarianship; health sciences librarians; health sciences libraries; medical libraries

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; LIBRARIAN; LIBRARY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; LIBRARIANS; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880945098     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763869.2013.806860     Document Type: Article

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