Major medical libraries interviewed and profiled in the report include: the Medical College of Georgia, the University of Georgia, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, the Mayo Clinic, Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, the Virtual Naval Hospital, and the University of Toronto, among others.
The report contains extensive discussions exploring medical library use of search engines, the web, cataloging systems, online services, CD-ROM, document delivery services, electronic and print journals, books and other information vehicles. The report also looks at the impact of virtual reference, greater demands for information literacy, pressure to redesign medical library websites, the politics of obtaining special funding for database procurement, and other pressing issues related to the development of digital medical libraries, especially among research universities.