Central Medical Library during the COVID-19 pandemic – analysis of provided services and user needs

Dorota Ubysz; Wojciech Giermaziak

doi:10.34738/mlf.0061

Central Medical Library during the COVID-19 pandemic – analysis of provided services and user needs

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Dorota Ubysz Central Medical Library, Warsaw, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4724-1413
Wojciech Giermaziak Central Medical Library, Warsaw, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-4825

Abstract

The article presents how the Central Medical Library (CML) operated during the COVID-19 pandemic, including solutions and special measures used to enable users to safely use CML services and access its collections. It presents statistics on remote services provided by the library: topical literature compilations, reprographic services, confirmations of participation in scientific publications and the use of the Polish Medical Bibliography (PMB) database. It discusses users’ interest in issues related to COVID-19 and presents material related to the pandemic in the CML collections.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34738/mlf.0061

Keywords:

medical libraries, COVID-19, library services, library materials, Central Medical Library

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15.09.2022

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Issue 1 | Volume 15 | 2022

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Articles

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Central Medical Library during the COVID-19 pandemic – analysis of provided services and user needs. MLF [Internet]. 2022 Sep. 15 [cited 2025 Jan. 3];15(1):41-9. Available from: https://fbm.wum.edu.pl/index.php/mlf/article/view/MLF-0061

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