Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Samson, Geraldine B. |
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| Resource Title | A feasibility study of the medical digital collection of the Lung Center of the Philippines Medical Library |
| Date Issued | 23 October 2012 |
| Abstract | A digital library aims to provide users remote, immediate and efficient access of current and filtered data. However, to develop one would require the latest ICT's, well-trained manpower and a significant amount of money. These factors make the inception of a digital library close to impossible especially in a developing country such as the Philippines. With that being said, this study will focus on trying to initiate a feasibility study of a digital library in a medical library at the Lung Center of the Philippines. The Lung Center of the Philippines is a government-funded hospital with a long history of budget constraint. It is also a training hospital that requires its residents and fellows to submit a research paper regularly. Their medical library is currently without a function OPAC and digital library. Because of these reasons, access to current and significant medical studies and researches that are only available online are difficult to obtain. In order to conduct the research, an extensive feasibility study was done focused on the market, organizational, technical and financial aspect of the hospital. The head librarian was interviewed as well as 17 users in total were given questionnaires. The data gathered from the questionnaires and interview revealed that all users including the head librarian would like to have a digital library instituted in the facility to function alongside with their existing print resources. Most of them also associate the lack of funds, organization's disinterest, and lack of well-trained staff as major reasons for the lack of a digital library. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Library and Information Science |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Lung Center of the Philippines; Medical libraries--Philippines--Quezon City; Digital libraries |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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