HOSPITAL LIBRARY SERVICES

14. Does your hospital library(ies) have a professional librarian (with an advanced degree in library science) on staff?

Yes
No
Don't know

15. Which of the following services for health professionals does your hospital library(ies)/librarian(s) provide? Please check all that apply.

Access to professional books and journals
Access to consumer health information resources
Access to online health information
Health information search services conducted by the librarian(s)
Training on databases or Internet searching
Our library(ies)/librarian(s) does not provide services for health professionals
Other (please specify)

16. How important to your hospital’s overall quality of care is the library/librarian’s provision of health information services to professionals? Please check only one response.

This is critically important to fulfilling our mission and we are doing it.
This is critical and something we should be doing but are not.
This is not critical but something we are currently doing.
This is not critical and something we do not do.

17. Which of the following services for patients and consumers does your hospital library(ies)/librarian(s) provide? Please check all that apply.

Access to consumer health information resources
Access to online health information
Access to professional books and journals
Health information search services conducted by the librarian(s)
Training on database or Internet searching
Our library(ies)/librarian(s) does not provide services for patients and consumers
Other (please specify)

18. How important to your hospital's overall quality of care is the library/librarian's provision of patient and consumer health information services? Please check only one response.

This is critically important to fulfilling our mission and we are doing it.
This is critical and something we should be doing but are not.
This is not critical but something we are currently doing.
This is not critical and something we do not do.

19. Which of the following best describes how you feel about your current hospital library's budget? Please check only one response.

The hospital should increase funding for the library to support health information resources and services for patients and consumers.
The hospital should increase funding for the library to support health information resources and services for health professionals.
The hospital should increase funding for the library to serve both patients/consumers and health professionals.
The hospital should decrease funding for the library since most health information resources are available online and additional services are not necessary.
Funding for the library should stay the same.

20. Do you make budgetary decisions that affect your hospital library(ies)?

Yes
No
Don't know

21. If you had to choose between funding a hospital library that only serves health professionals and a library or resource center that primarily serves patients and consumers, which one would you choose to fund and why? Please check only one response.

Hospital library that only serves health professionals
Hospital library or resource center that primarily serves patients and consumers

Why do you feel this way?