%0 Journal Article
%T Las bibliotecas de ciencias de la salud en Espa a: una primera aproximaci車n descriptiva
%A L芍zaro de Mercado
%A Pablo
%A Poza Sanz
%A M. Angeles
%A Estrada Lorenzo
%A Jos谷 Manuel
%A S芍nchez G車mez
%A Cristina
%J Revista Espaˋola de Documentaci車n Cient赤fica
%D 1997
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient赤ficas
%X Libraries are of fundamental importance in health care, training and research due to continuing advances in knowledge and its diffusion in a wide variety of publications. Spain lacks an organized library system and deficiencies are perceived. This article presents a descriptive study of the health sciences libraries in Spain. We performed a cross sectional study by survey of the following public centers: hospitals with more than 100 beds or smaller hospitals with teaching accreditation: centers of health management and administration; research centers: schools of public health; schools of medicine and dentistry; and schools of nursing and physical therapy. A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to centers with libraries, and follow-up was made by telephone. 400 of the 716 centers identified have their own libraries (55.9%). and 82 have shared libraries (11.5%). Over half of the libraries (52.8%) are in hospitals. AII research centers, schools of medicine and dentistry, schools of public health and hospital complexes have their own or shared libraries, as do 42.6% of administrative centers, 84.6% of schools of nursing and physical therapy, 79% of all hospitals, 72.4% of individual hospitals, 92.5% of teaching hospitals, and 50.5% of non-teaching hospitals. Only two-thirds of the centers have access to a library. The proportion of hospitals with library access can be considered low, especially in non-teaching hospitals, those with a small number of beds, or those not belonging to a hospital complex. Over half of the libraries are in hospitals, thus they will be of primary importance in designing future documentation systems. Los avances del conocimiento y su difusi車n en diversos tipos de publicaciones hacen a las bibliotecas centros fundamentales en la asistencia, docencia e investigaci車n en los sistemas de salud. Espa a carece de un sistema bibliotecario organizado y se perciben deficiencias. Este art赤culo presenta un estudio descriptivo sobre la situaci車n de las bibliotecas de ciencias de la salud en Espa a. Se realiz車 un estudio transversal mediante encuesta en los siguientes centros p迆blicos: hospitales mayores de 100 camas o menores con acreditaci車n docente, centros de gesti車n y administraci車n sanitaria, centros de investigaci車n, escuelas de salud p迆blica, facultades de medicina y odontolog赤a, y escuelas universitarias de enfermer赤a y fisioterapia. A los centros que ten赤an biblioteca se les envi車 por correo un cuestionario autoadministrado con seguimiento telef車nico. De los 716 centros identificados, 400 tienen biblioteca propia (55,9%) y 82 co
%K Health sciences libraries
%K information and documentation systems
%K Spain
%K Bibliotecas de ciencias de la salud
%K sistemas de informaci車n y documentaci車n
%K Espa a
%U http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/573/648