Satellite stories: capturing professional experiences of academic health sciences librarians working in delocalized health sciences programs.
Objective: Health sciences training programs have progressively expanded onto satellite campuses, allowing students the opportunity to learn in communities away from an academic institution's main campus. This expansion has encouraged a new role for librarians to assume, in that a subset of health s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 106; no. 1; pp. 74 - 81 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
Jan2018
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