TY - BOOK AU - McSean, T (ed) AU - Van Loo, J (ed) TI - Health information : new possibilities SN - 0792335848 PY - 1995/// CY - London PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers KW - Library and Information Services N1 - Text includes: Conference committees' plenary sessions; Networking and resource sharing; Management and organisational issues; The library in the learning environment; Developing new services and roles; Electronic information delivery; Information in the pharmaceutical industry; Consumer health information; Professional issues; History of medicine; Poster sessions N2 - The 1994 conference of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries drew together an exceptional group of invited speakers and contributed papers. They represent a summary of the developments in libraries and information services in the medical and health areas. Most of the themes featured in the book concentrate on the important growth areas of the profession: computer-based information services, networking (especially the Internet), and CD-ROMs. The text contains interesting contributions on identifying the needs of library users and evaluating how well these are being met. There is also a section on the history of medicine ER -