Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Competency 9: Internet

Using Google, I found the United States National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicines website. It provides information about and links to information that is of concern to healthcare professionals (genetics, environmental health and toxicology, grants and funding, PubMed, Medline Plus, ToxTown, etc.), the public, researchers, librarians, and publishers.

The website also has webpages dedicated to resources for medical librarians and libraries. I particularly found the Health Services Research Methodology Core Library Recommendations 2007 webpage to be useful for medical librarians. This webpages provides information on core and desired medically-related databases, core and desired health services research methods websites, core and desired books in health services research methods, core journals in health research methods, etc.

I chose this website because it seems especially useful for medical librarians to know about this site since it helps them to expand their knowledge of online and offline resources that are available to assist the librarian in their efforts to find information for their healthcare practitioner clients.