j’s scratchpad

The University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center’s library surveyed its users to learn whether patients were getting valuable information from the library and its staff. For the majority, a professional search gave better results.

"’Just because the information is there doesn’t mean people can access it. Not everyone is on the Internet. And of those who are, only a few are knowledgeable about search strategies and techniques that are key to locating quality information on medical issues. Every search on Google or Yahoo! will turn up a list of results, but these results do not necessarily link to the best information sources about a topic,’ says Ruti Volk, M.S.I., a librarian and manager of the Patient Education Resource Center at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center."

Thanks for the blog fodder, Alice!

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 1:05 am and is filed under Librarianship. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.