If you direct a hospital library and have not yet participated in the Survey of Hospital Libraries currently being conducted by the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the MLA Hospital Libraries Section, please do so. The survey is collecting data concerning the state of hospital libraries and librarianship today. No national survey of this kind has been done since 1990. This Survey of Hospital Libraries is part of a larger initiative by MLA to determine the current status of health sciences librarians who work in hospitals.

The information gathered will assist the National Library of Medicine and the NN/LM in providing services that meet the needs of hospital libraries and also take advantage of their strengths.

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. You will need some basic information about your hospital--bed size, inpatient admissions, and outpatient visits--to complete the survey, so you may want to collect this information before starting. Institutional and
library statistical information will be kept confidential and used for aggregate statistical reporting only. The aggregate survey results will be made available to survey respondents, the health sciences library field, and other interested parties and will be used for future strategic
initiatives.

Visit the survey at:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224YH5DENE3