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An example
for testing medical Library Service Quality
Eva Klemencic
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Introduction
The aim of
this study was to find a simple way for testing the medical library service
quality. For the example the searching was made in the field of communicable
diseases and all of them were chosen as nowdays the most actual infectious
diseases. All considering words can be found as controlled terms in the
vocabulary Medical Subject Headings.
Methods At first the
number of bibliographoic data of some appointment infectious diseases that
can be found in the most important bibliographic database in the field
of medicine MEDLINE was retrieved. The included time period was as long
as it is possible for searching this database from year 1966 until 1999
calendar year. The chosen years of above mentioned time interval were:
1966, 1970, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1990, 1996 and at last the complet year 1999.
The next step of the searching was to find the frequencies of the bibliographic
data for the particular infectious diseases when the name of the appointed
infectious disease is the part of the journal title. For this reason the
searching was made only in complete calendar year 1999. At last the result
was compared to the journal collection of our Central Medical Library of
the Medical Faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia. All these journals can be found
in a local area network of the Medical faculty
Results The results of all searching steps
as mentioned above were revieved in five tables and two figures.
Table 1. Communicable diseases
Table 2. Communicable diseases
Table 3. Communicable
diseases
Table 4. Communicable diseases
as a word of journal title
Table 5. Tuberculosis
and AIDS as a journal title word
Conclusions This simple test can serve for example
how the relevant journals' title can be chosen for medical journal collection
creation as well as for recommending and nancellation. In this way the
medical library service can be evaluated. The journal collection of our
Central medical library in Ljubljana contains all of them.
Literature 1. Constock GW.Snippers from
the past: 70 years ago in the journal. Am J Epidemiol 1998;148:1166-7.
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