20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

442 Octavia-Luciana Porumbeanuusing them as it happens with the electronic ones (18%), the routine (9%),quick access to current information (6%). Those that prefer the electronicinformation resources offered the following answers: quick access toinformation (25%), quantity of information (9%), current information(8%), they are practical (4%), better information (3%).We also wanted to find out if the participants in the study had access tomedical electronic information resources at home or in some other place.The majority (84%) declared they had access, with only 16% giving anegative answer.The accessibility of the medical electronic information resourcesoffered by the ”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and PharmacyLibrary was acknowledged by the great majority of the participants (96%).70% declare they don’t have difficulty with using the electronicinformation resources, and only 23% said that they had a difficulty withuse. The difficulties they confronted when using electronic informationresources included: lack of experience (7%), limited access (5%), problemswith computers (4%), too much information (1%).Due to the low percentage of users that consult the electronic resourcesoffered by the library and in order to find ways of increasing their use, weconsidered it very important to know how and from where the participantsin the study found out about medical electronic information resources. Theanswers are as follows: colleagues (23%), Internet (by searching) (21%),teaching staff (19%), the library (12%), announcements (conferences) (5%).Concerning the way the users learned to consult electronic informationresources, 62%, declared they taught themselves and the rest answered asfollows: they were trained at the first visit to the library (8%), they read theinstructions (8%), they were helped (6%), the librarian helped them (16%).We considered the results of the question about the difficulties the userswere confronted with as a consequence of the fact that the majority (83%)didn’t participate in any training session organized by the library about theuse of these resources.Their suggestions regarding increasing the use of electronic informationresources in the library included better information (5%), better computers(3%), an electronic network (1%), databases/sites (1%).The large majority of the participants need the information they get atthe library for studying and preparing different exams (54%). The otheranswers were as follows: for writing different papers, graduation papers,PhD theses etc. (18%), for professional development (16%), for keeping upto date with the latest news in the field (12%).