National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, Library of Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1750 West Polk (M/C 763), Chicago, IL, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 Oct;97(4):285-92. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.4.013.
The research objectives were to (1) describe the current and future roles of hospital librarians and the challenges they face and (2) find evidence supporting the hypothesis that librarians are essential to hospitals in achieving the organizations' mission-critical goals.
The authors used results from a previous research study that identified the five organizational mission-critical goals important to hospital administrators and then searched the literature and solicited examples from hospital librarians to describe the librarian's role in helping hospitals achieve these goals.
The literature supports the hypothesis that hospital librarians play important roles in the success of the hospital. Librarians support quality clinical care, efficient and effective hospital operations, continuing education for staff, research and innovation, and patient, family, and community health information needs.
Hospital librarians fulfill many mission-critical roles in today's hospital, providing the right information at the right time in a variety of ways to enhance hospital and medical staff effectiveness, optimize patient care, improve patient outcomes, and increase patient and family satisfaction with the hospital and its services. Because hospital librarians and their services provide an excellent return on investment for the hospital and help the hospital keep its competitive edge, hospital staff should have access to the services of a professional librarian.
本研究旨在（1）描述医院图书馆员当前和未来的角色，以及他们所面临的挑战；（2）寻找证据支持图书馆员对医院实现其关键使命目标至关重要的假设。
作者使用了先前一项研究的结果，该研究确定了对医院管理人员至关重要的五个组织关键使命目标，然后检索了文献并征求了医院图书馆员的示例，以描述图书馆员在帮助医院实现这些目标方面的作用。
文献支持医院图书馆员在医院成功中发挥重要作用的假设。图书馆员支持高质量的临床护理、高效和有效的医院运营、员工继续教育、研究和创新以及患者、家庭和社区的健康信息需求。
医院图书馆员在当今的医院中扮演着许多关键使命的角色，以各种方式在正确的时间提供正确的信息，以提高医院和医务人员的效率，优化患者护理，改善患者预后，并提高患者及其对医院及其服务的满意度。由于医院图书馆员及其服务为医院带来了极好的投资回报，并帮助医院保持竞争优势，因此医院工作人员应能够获得专业图书馆员的服务。
