title: The hospital library as provider of consumer health information.
abstract: The health care environment of the 1990s demands that hospital libraries develop creative strategies for providing consumer health information (CHI). Librarians at the Reuben L. Sharp Health Sciences Library at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center have developed a multifaceted approach to the problem. Using a combination of institutional resources, private funding, and cooperative arrangements with public libraries, the Sharp Library helps to serve the consumer health information needs of the southern New Jersey community.
authors.affiliation: Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ, USA.
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authors.lastname: Calabretta
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D007255:Information Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009515:New Jersey