Staff development planning in an academic health sciences library.

Objective: A staff development committee (SDC) was convened to implement staff development opportunities for an academic health sciences library system comprised of three separate facilities. The charge for the SDC was to: (1) develop programs to enhance workplace skills and personal growth, (2) communicate the availability of existing programs at the university and medical center, and (3) encourage the staff to participate in these opportunities.

Program: The committee created goals and objectives and developed a survey designed to give staff the opportunity to provide input for this initiative.

Use of Web-based library resources by medical students in community and ambulatory settings.

Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the use of Web-based library resources by third-year medical students.

Setting/participants/resources: Third-year medical students (147) in a twelve-week multidisciplinary primary care rotation in community and ambulatory settings.

Methodology: Individual user surveys and log file analysis of Website were used.