Description

The advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools has made a tremendous change in the operation landscape of today’s healthcare industry, especially for medical libraries. Most of the library’s operation offers at least an automated library system, such the cataloguing system or the inter-library loaning system, for their patrons to fully-utilise and seek the relevant resources. In the healthcare industry, medical library has come a long way in their landscape for their operation services. These include healthcare and medical students, researchers, and also the current workers related to the industry, which frequently utilised the library's service to gain their knowledge. Furthermore, the development of medical digital library is also always strategically aligned to the e-learning terminology in both education and research industry to leverage the information literacy. This is done through a number of means, right from the administration and communication up to the user experience in receiving a good information service. Therefore, the purpose of this term paper will discuss the developments and influences that have been implemented and the future of states of the art: medical libraries in offering a new stage of possibilities for their daily operation.