Publications by authors named "Mark Funk"
Purpose: This lecture explores changes in the medical library profession over the last fifty years, as revealed by individual word usage in a body of literature.
Methods: I downloaded articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association between 1961 and 2000 to create an electronic corpus and tracked annual frequency of individual word usage. I used frequency sparklines of words, matching one of four archetypal shapes (level, rise, fall, and rise-and-fall) to identify significant words.