All five instruction-delivery modalities present useful structures for imparting professional CE. As librarians' experience with different modalities increases and as technology improves, preferences in instruction delivery may shift. But at present, face-to-face remains the most preferred modality. Based on the results of this study, cost was the most influential factor associated with attending a CE class. This may change as additional influential factors are identified and analyzed in future studies.

Library integration into the medical school curriculum is a crucial aspect of meeting Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) Accreditation Standards and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP) guidelines. To accomplish this, academic health sciences libraries seek to develop evidence-based medicine (EBM) literature searching classes within the medical school curriculum. Establishing a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts behind health sciences database searching among medical students is a prerequisite for a more demanding evidence-based literature searching curriculum. The George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library, Penn State College of Medicine, sought to incorporate an evidence-based medicine literature searching structure by working within the existing problem-based learning system during the preclinical years. Students in the clinical years will participate in evidence-based assignments during their rotations. A fourth-year EBM elective will be created to reinforce and round out students' exposure to these concepts.

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What is the role of the library in the 21 st century? What roles will computers and books play as libraries reinvent themselves as knowledge management centers? What will these new physical and virtual information hubs look like? What exciting models already exist and what lessons do these teach?A robust renaissance is underway in the world of libraries and, with this special issue of NEWSLINE, we give you a ringside seat. We examine the questions above and many more, culling information from the proceedings of "The Library as Place," a symposium held at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, November 5-6, 2003. Cosponsored by NLM and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the event featured presenters from the realms of academia, the library community, industry, research laboratories and architecture. Organizers of the symposium for NLM were Becky J. Lyon, Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations, and Susan P. Buyer, Chief, Office of Planning and Analysis. Members of the organizing committee for AAHSL were Rick Forsman, University of Colorado, David Ginn, Boston University and Logan Ludwig, Loyola University.A DVD version of the "Library as Place" symposium is now available for a $10 shipping and handling fee from AAHSL. The next best thing to being there, this easily searchable product is innovative, interactive, multi-windowed and complete. Employing either visual reference or text search tools, users of this DVD can go immediately to any point in the two-day conference to view videos of presenters in one window, simultaneously bring up the accompanying visuals in a second "zoom window (to expand their size), and in a third, scroll through a "thumbnail" set of the entire presentation, select one slide and have both the video and "zoom" windows move to that exact point in the presentation.English-language captioning of the conference's 13 total hours of video is provided, as is a five-minute introductory "highlights" video. Other firsts include video interviews with the conference's 19 poster presenters and digital photographs of their posters, plus biographies of all presenters and interviews with several of them.