Vital Signs: 10th Anniversary of the AAMC Report

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The AAMC library study was conceived in 1979 by Marjorie P. Wilson, M. D. A major aim of the study was to inform academic medical center leaders of the key strategic issues in academic information management coming over the next several decades as electronic technologies would spread, then permeate and finally change our educational and health care institutions. Another aim was to describe how libraries could and should play a major role in the development and management of biomedical information. The National Library of Medicine IAIMS program supported the implementation of some of the report's recommendations at 17 institutions and organizations. The experience of these innovators will benefit us all as we enter the next decade of turbulent restructuring of our academic programs and scholarly communication systems. Between now and the end of the century we will see widespread much improved interfaces between humans and machines, high volume transfer of multimedia forms of knowledge between people and databases, and a shift from data dominance to knowledge dominance.