Information Management in the Academic Libraries

Abstract

Information management constitutes a major acnvity of the health care professionals. Health care institutions are considering, and a few are making. large-scale commitments to information systems and services that will affect every aspect of their organizations function. Health science libraries have to adopt several of the Integrated Academic Information Management Systems (IAIMS) concepts and implement them at a hospital library level. The ideal situation in which the healthy professions can profit fully from the rationalization and management of knowledge in the medical school setting is one of reapproachment between the transmitters (teachers) and receivers (students) of information, whether medical or in any other subject.