title: Expanded roles for hospital libraries: a direction for successful change.
abstract: Hospitals are changing to cope with a new environment and their libraries are changing with them. We demonstrate that hospital librarians can influence the change process and that expanding the role of the library is one option. Four case reports are presented to illustrate generic problems and how each library has coped with them. The issues facing hospital libraries today are viewed within the broader perspective of the American health care system.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000191:economics*