title: The hospital library in transition.
abstract: The community hospital library has evolved to a current status of real importance because of advances in medicine and technology, rising expectations from better-informed consumers to be "well," health care specialization, legislation, and malpractice and licensure concerns. Some suggestions are offered to help the hospital library and librarian function in a broad range of roles, from a reservoir of information to public relations resource.
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D007318:Inservice Training; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007995:Library Administration; D009820:Ohio; D011641:Public Relations