On Digital Reference Services In Medical College Libraries

Digital Referential consulting Services results from the information- based and net-based society, and also is the main modality of reference and consultation. In and aboard libraries utilize network to answer to those questions in electronic form, which has become a new sort of information service, materialize the Innovation of library service and extend and explore traditional information service, as the services of digital reference and consultation possesses abound of source, advanced service, wide-ranging object and advantages of non-limitation in space-time and intelligentized consequence.In this paper, a combination of theory and practice of the method, applied to literature, the survey method, comparative study of law, and so analysis of argumentation research methods, Introducing the following:(1) Analysis and evaluation of various domestic and international model for digital reference.Digital Reference Services of development has created a situation of coexistence of a multi-modality. Digital Reference Services has its advantages and disadvantages of various models.(2)Introduce the development of Digital Reference Services at home and abroad.Abroad has been the development of digital reference to the Collaborative Digital Reference,and has set up a number of more mature systems Collaborative Digital Reference,including the Ask A Librarian, QuestionPoint, etc. Domestic digital reference research over the past few years includes: Digital Reference Service of the characteristics and development trend of digital reference services, digital reference services, standards and assessment, digital reference services, technical support, foreign digital reference services.(3) Investigate digital reference libraries of medicine and the analysis Through the network at home and abroad.In this paper, both at home and abroad a total of more than 145 medical libraries in the status of Digital Reference Service conducted a survey and data statistics, and comparatived analysis of the use of foreign law into a medical library in the web form, web-based electronic forms, advisory services and real-time collaborative reference services should be of the internal reference.(4) Propose domestic medical institutions to digital reference responses.This paper surveys the number of domestic medical libraries reference service to improve response, including a library of great importance to the leadership of the DRS, advancing technical support staff to improve the quality of advice, paying attention to medical characteristics, enhancing the standardization of DRS; DRS evaluation system set up to build the medical Collaborative Digital Reference Library system.In recent years, digital reference service towards domestic reference source of information and services to the diversification of integrated development; digital reference service is bound to the future development of co-operative road to go; the trend of personalized service.