Medizinbibliotheken: Innovativ denken, strategisch planen, praktisch umsetzen / Medical libraries: think innovative, plan strategically, implement in practice

The focus of the current issue 3/2011 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is the annual conference 2011 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Cologne. The motto of the conference was “Think innovative, plan strategically, implement in practice”. Focal points of the meeting were innovation management, marketing and new applications in medical libraries.The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer, Daniel Formanek & Helmut Dollfu (E-Books at medical libraries: They came to stay), Ursula Georgy (Systematic innovation management), Maurizio Grilli (New library portal at Province College for Health-Care Professions Claudiana, Bozen), Sabine K hrer-Weisser (Marketing in One Person Libraries), Roland Mumenthaler (Innovation Management at ETH-Bibliothek), Markus Schmiel (Performance-related bonuses at Hannover Medical School: practical experience report of the library), Guus van den Brekel (Mobile Computing & Semantic Web in Health & Medicine), Iris Reimann & Sonja Fr ntz (Think innovative, plan strategically, implement in practice – Annual Meeting 2011 of the German MLA, 19th to 21th September in Cologne) and Eike Hentschel (Aus der AGMB).