Abstract

FERNANDEZ VALDES, María de las Mercedes  and  ZAYAS MUJICA, Roberto. Standards for university libraries of health sciences in Cuba. Educ Med Super [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.4, pp.843-862. ISSN 0864-2141.

The study characterizes the university libraries of health sciences and made emphasis on the need of turning them into an essential space for the information and the knowledge management in the Cuban medical university. The objective of the study was to define the standards characterizing the functioning and the information services in the university libraries of health sciences. A qualitative approach and empirical research methods (observation, interview and focal group) were both used in addition to making a documentary review to determine the state of the art of this subject. Six standards were then defined to evaluate the impact of the libraries of the Universities of Medical Sciences including those aspects related to information resources, products and services, human resources, physical and technological infrastructure and informational literacy process. It is concluded that the university library of medical sciences plays a fundamental role in the consolidation of informational culture in the national health care system, being the standards the guidelines for advising the evaluation of these libraries and the quality of services.

Keywords : university libraries; standards; health sciences; quality; evaluation.

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