Electronic Table of Contents Service: Still “Forwarding” 11 Years Later

Abstract

An electronic table of contents (eToC) program was implemented by a medical librarian more than 11 years ago at a pediatric hospital (now a clinical and academic health system) with the goal of saving healthcare providers time and assisting them in staying current on the literature in their specific disciplines and/or general medicine. The eToC program still remains a highly popular service with more than 180 clinicians participating. This paper describes the implementation and maintenance of the program.

Keywords:

• Health science librarians
• health science libraries
• hospital libraries
• medical librarians
• table of contents

Acknowledgments

The author would like to acknowledge and thank Gabriel Tinnaro, Director of Digital Services at the Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital for his assistance in creating the in-house e-ToC form.

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Notes on contributors

Pamela Williams

Pamela Williams, MS, MLS, AHIP ([email protected]) is a Medical Librarian at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.