Professional Reading Shelf
Medical Librarianship
Source: MLA
Now Available: October 2005 issue of The Journal of Medical Library Association
Articles include:
+ Information preferences and practices among people living with HIV/AIDS: results from a nationwide survey
+ Value of hospital libraries: the Fuld Campus study
+ A comparative study of six European databases of medically oriented Web resources
+ Consumer health libraries: what do patrons really want?
Also Available: Volume 93(4 Suppl); October 2005
Articles include:
+ Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: guidance from research on information seeking and use
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Public Libraries–Theft
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DVDs vanish off library shelves
“Thieves in Gwinnett County have lifted enough DVDs from public library shelves to fill more than two video stores and wipe out nearly half the system’s collection. The thefts got so bad — nearly 17,000 discs in all — the library board quietly shut down the 5-year-old program last month and began selling off the remaining inventory.”

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