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Open Access Graduate Research Paper

Keywords

MEDLINE; Library users--Iowa--Statistics; Medical libraries--Reference services--Iowa;

Abstract

The research in this paper is directed to the evalu­ation of changes brought about in the library search ser­vices of the Iowa State Medical Library by the addition of the use of the MEDLINE (MEDLARS on-line) computer. Nine hundred ninety-eight search requests were analyzed for two time periods of eight months each. The first time period included manual searches only and the second time period in­cluded both manual and MEDLINE searches. The information compiled for analysis included: the user's occupation; the subject request; whether a manual or computer search was requested; and the computer costs involved for each request.

The study revealed some increase in the number of user requests. The major findings included hospital person­nel, state agencies, and attorneys were the three leading users of MEDLINE and Polk county and Linn county had more than a ten percent increase in search requests that might be attributed to the addition of the MEDLINE computer service. There was a decrease in the percent of requests in the "dis­ease" medical subject category amounting to over ten per­cent. The paper includes two tables and two maps. The. user's geographical location provided1 information on user distribution in the state of Iowa.

Year of Submission

1980

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Library Science

First Advisor

Elizabeth Martin

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Date Original

1980

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1 PDF file (iii, 36 pages)

Language

en

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