International Trends in Health Science Librarianship Part 18: The Middle East (Iran, Qatar and Turkey)

Kimia Zeraatkar; Haleh Ayatollahi; Tracy Havlin; Karen Neves; Mesra Şendir

doi:10.1111/hir.12138

International Trends in Health Science Librarianship Part 18: The Middle East (Iran, Qatar and Turkey)

Health Info Libr J. 2016 Jun;33(2):156-60. doi: 10.1111/hir.12138.

Authors

Kimia Zeraatkar¹, Haleh Ayatollahi², Tracy Havlin³, Karen Neves⁴, Mesra Şendir⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences No. 6, Shahid Yasami St., Vali-e-Asr St., Tehran, Iran. kzeraatkar@gmail.com.
² Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences No. 6, Shahid Yasami St., Vali-e-Asr St., Tehran, Iran. ayatollahi.h@iums.ac.ir.
³ Sidra Medical & Research Center, 1st Floor, Al Nasr Tower, PO Box 26999, Doha, Qatar. thavlin@sidra.org.
⁴ Sidra Medical & Research Center, 1st Floor, Al Nasr Tower, PO Box 26999, Doha, Qatar. kneves@sidra.org.
⁵ Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Education Science, Istanbul, Turkey. mesra.sendir@stu.bahcesehir.edu.tr.

PMID: 27168258
DOI: 10.1111/hir.12138

Abstract

This is the 18th in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship in the 21st century. The focus of the present issue is the Middle East (Iran, Qatar and Turkey). The next feature column will investigate trends in the Balkan States JM.

Keywords: case studies; comparative study; health science; librarianship; library and information professionals; middle east; national strategies.

MeSH terms

Humans
Internationality*
Internet
Iran
Libraries, Medical / standards
Libraries, Medical / statistics & numerical data
Libraries, Medical / trends*
Library Science / education*
Library Science / trends
Qatar
Turkey