Changing Roles and Contexts for Health Library and Information Professionals

"Recommended reading if you're wondering where we're going as a profession, the text is a valuable contribution to the professional literature."

-- Consumer Connection

"However working environments change in the years to come there will always be a need to collect, organize and provide access to health information. These tasks will be performed by someone but not necessarily by librarians, so if our profession wants to avoid sliding into insignificance we will need to understand how to step into the roles that are emerging. This book essentially offers the library profession a survival guide to working in healthcare."

-- Library and Information Research

"By focusing on the person (health library and information professionals) rather than the place (the library, whether it is physical or digital), and the opportunities for new and developing roles generated by the contextual drivers for change that are common in all health environments, the editors have achieved a valuable outcome – a book that is optimistic about the future, and provides some ideas about how to get there if health library and information professionals are willing to take up the challenge."

-- Library Management

"Working in the field of health librarianship I wish that this type of book had been available previously as it really examines and explores the whole gambit of roles within the fields of health information. The contributors to the different sections come from various countries around the world. The case studies I found particularly informative. I borrowed this book initially from the North West Health Care Library Unit (HCLU) staff library and was so impressed I bought a copy for my own library for staff to browse at their own pace. There is so much useful information in the book it illustrates all the differing opportunities there are in this exciting field of Library and Information. It is well worth purchasing."

-- PTEG