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Identify at least two clientele types for a health sciences librarian. Focusing on the roles of a

health sciences librarian or medical librarian, discuss the services that the clients can

expect to receive from the librarian

Medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients,

consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific

information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care according to (Roper, Jan 2006).

Medical libraries are typically found in hospitals, medical schools, private industry, and in

medical or health association. Library Services Resources and activities provided by libraries to

address information needs of users. In a medical library a medical librarian or a health science

librarian serves different types of clientels and these includes physicians, health researchers,

students, patients and health professionals. In medical researches and a student majoring into

health science they expect some services to be offered to them by the medical or health science

librarian and these services include the reference services, circulation services, online

information services, information literacy skills only to mention just a few most of the

information shall be discussed below.

The medical researchers and students expect to recieve reference services from the medical

librarian or their health science librarain. Reference services are the services provided by the

reference department in a library that helps library patrons to get access to the information that

they needed, reference department provide user with direction to the library materials according

to ( Kadir, 2010). Clients in a medical institution conducting a medical research or they are

medical students expect to receive reference service from the librarian so that they can be able to

locate the information they need to use in their research orstudies. Hence as a medical librarian

one needs to offer reference service to the users in order for them to locate the information they

need to use in their researches if the client is a medical researcher. According to Bunge & Bope

(2001) a library is a place where there is full information and a lot of information therefore

without reference services the clients will be lost. Therefore one would conclude that the medical

clients or health science clients would expect the reference service from the librarain. Clients

expect to be offered chat refence services, virtual refences and digital reference services, because

the libraries are operating in the world of technology therefore the medical researchers and

students would expect the librarian to offer them that service.

Furthermore the clients expect to receive circulation services from the medical librarian.

Circulation services comprises the activities around the lending of library books and other

material to users of a lending library according to Weingand (1997). Circulation services include

check-in and check-out of libraray materials, library loaning and checking for the damaged

materials. Medical clients expect the libraraian to serve them and make them borrow materials

from the library that they wish to use for their studies and researches that they will be

conducting. therefore the clients expect to receive circulation services from the medical librarian,

they expect to be allowed to borrow the information and materials they need as well as booking

for materials they need to use.

Online information service is another service that medical researchers and medical students

expect from the librarian. Online information services include offering information on the

website, the library will have an institutional repository with databases to enable online access of

information by the users. Therefore in the 21st century medical researchers and medical students

expect that the library is digitised and can give them access to the online information services in

order to solve their problem s in their studies and researches. Hence they expect the librarain to

assist them by providing information on the web and sometimes help them to search and access

information on the institutional repository. according to Markulin () the users can ask for a help

in finding information on their clinical problems. A responsible librarian will analyse the

problem, search information resources and evaluate the evidence online and respond online using

emails. Therefore the medical clients would expect the medical librarian to offer them online

service.

Moreover the clients of a medical librarain or a health sciences librarian expect to recieve

information literacy skills services from the librarian. The teaching of search skills, either in

person or through the development of online modules, the provision of text searches as a direct

service provider or using a combination of search skills and as a provider of the search literature

(Perrier et al., 2014). This service is expected by the clients to receive it from the librarian, when

the medical researchers comes to the library for the first time they need to be orinted and taught

information literacy still on how they can search and what information do they need and the

places where they can find the information. This service is expected by the clients of the medical

library they need to know where they can find resources within the library and what online

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Identify at least two clientele types for a health sciences librarian. Focusing on the roles of a health sciences librarian or medical librarian, discuss the services that the clients can expect to receive from the librarian Medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care according to (Roper, Jan 2006). Medical libraries are typically found in hospitals, medical schools, private industry, and in medical or health association. Library Services Resources and activities provided by libraries to address information needs of users. In a medical library a medical librarian or a health science librarian serves different types of clientels and these includes physicians, health researchers, students, patients and health professionals. In medical researches and a student majoring into health science they expect some services to be offered to them by the medical or health science librarian and these services include the reference services, circulation services, online information services, infor ...
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