Erhardt-Domino K, Pletcher T, Wilson W, Atkins D, Panko W B
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0704.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1994 Oct;82(4):426-33.
The future of the biomedical enterprise and the biomedical libraries that serve it is tied closely to digital information. The changing nature of this type of information will create new pressures on libraries, particularly in health care organizations. Libraries must learn to deal with these pressures. Currently, libraries depend on the Internet primarily for connections to resources and other libraries; thus enhancements to the Internet will impact the libraries of the present and future significantly. This paper provides an overview of the technical capabilities that will be available in the near to midterm, what libraries will be able to do with those capabilities, and how libraries can position themselves to take advantage of the impending changes.
生物医学事业及其服务的生物医学图书馆的未来与数字信息紧密相连。这类信息不断变化的特性将给图书馆带来新的压力，尤其是在医疗保健机构中。图书馆必须学会应对这些压力。目前，图书馆主要依靠互联网连接资源和其他图书馆；因此，互联网的改进将对当前和未来的图书馆产生重大影响。本文概述了近期到中期将具备的技术能力、图书馆利用这些能力能够做什么，以及图书馆如何做好准备以利用即将到来的变化。
