By Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed
At many medical schools, new or renovated libraries have few books. Librarians are divided on the trend. Earlier this year the Association of American Medical Colleges predicted that by 2030, the United States would have a shortage of up to 104,900 physicians. To try to curb this impending crisis, a wave of new medical schools have opened in the last decade. Eleven schools have been accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in the last five years, and eight more are currently under consideration.
As a condition of accreditation, these new schools must provide access to “well-maintained library resources sufficient in breadth of holdings and technology” to support the school’s educational mission, but it seems many medical schools are deciding that large print collections are no longer a vital component of those resources.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/03/do-medical-schools-still-need-books
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