Renovations at Meharry Medical School Library are ongoing. To date, the library has an awesome digital library and web site, electronic classrooms, distance learning opportunities, a computing center and a medical information laboratory.
Also, “greater communication between students and faculty” is possible with new technology, the internet and wireless capabilities. A new library director was hired six months ago and staff training is also part of the change. Overall, up-dating of the library has elevated the Medical School “to a new level of excellence.” The collaborative group from Meharry and Vanderbilt are waiting for more funds to continue to transform the Meharry Library by 2010.
Renovation of the Medical library was a necessity because the students needed more access to current information to support and extent their academic training. It seemed more cost effective to have access to the information instead of trying to own the resources; knowledge and information are changing so quickly it is difficult for educational institutions to keep current. Meharry Medical School is using the needs of the students and staff as guiding forces in the upgrading of their library.
Information retrieved July 30, 2008 from the following sources:
http:// www.meharry-vanderbilt.org/pdf/report2006-web%20.pdf
http://diglib.mmc.edu
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Mr. John Maupin Jr. D.D.S, the president of Meharry Medical School knew that the three-leveled library needed to be updated. “It lacked updated materials, services, resources, technology, aesthetic properties and ….was 22 years old." He also knew that the students were going to nearby Vanderbilt’s Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL) for resources.” Collectively, the students, faculty, alumni, consultants and the president, developed a shared vision of what they wanted and needed in a library. Next, Mr. Maupin went to Vanderbilt’s Medical Center for help. The result was another opportunity for collaboration between both schools. They had come together before in 1999 to improve “the educational, scientific and clinical programs at both institutions.”
A five year plan was developed by Vanderbilt’s (EBL) and Meharry Medical School .The end result would be a “state of the art information center. It would include: “modernizing the operation of the [current] library, train staff, execute physical renovations, upgrades, and recruiting a library director by 2010…. A $20 million dollar capital campaign would fund the project.”
“In April [2005], the team launched a digital library, making more than 2,000 electronic journals, books, databases and Web sites available to the Meharry community. Also, at the beginning of the 2005 academic year, the library extended its operating hours”
Three years has passed since the beginning of the collaborative project between Meharry Medical School and Vanderbilt’s Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL). What are the recent developments and how has the search for a new library director been going in 2008? Answers to these questions will be in the next posting.
Pasley, J. (2005, Nov. ,11). Meharry library renovations aims to create modern information center. The Reporter. Retrieved on July 28, 2008 from http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html .
A five year plan was developed by Vanderbilt’s (EBL) and Meharry Medical School .The end result would be a “state of the art information center. It would include: “modernizing the operation of the [current] library, train staff, execute physical renovations, upgrades, and recruiting a library director by 2010…. A $20 million dollar capital campaign would fund the project.”
“In April [2005], the team launched a digital library, making more than 2,000 electronic journals, books, databases and Web sites available to the Meharry community. Also, at the beginning of the 2005 academic year, the library extended its operating hours”
Three years has passed since the beginning of the collaborative project between Meharry Medical School and Vanderbilt’s Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL). What are the recent developments and how has the search for a new library director been going in 2008? Answers to these questions will be in the next posting.
Pasley, J. (2005, Nov. ,11). Meharry library renovations aims to create modern information center. The Reporter. Retrieved on July 28, 2008 from http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html .
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