The I’s have it: everything needed to practice medical librarianship starts with an I
The medical or health sciences library professional vocabulary uses many words that start with an <i>I</i>. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Janet Doe Lectureship, this lecture highlights and summarizes the 15 lectures (27%) that have included an <i>I</i> in their titles. The most frequent <i>I</i> word was information; this word appeared in four lectures. Only one lecture used more than one <i>I</i> word in the title. A new <i>I</i> word incorporated in this lecture but not its title is Intelligence, Artificial. +Italics were used to emphasize I words within the lecture or titles of published works.
Authors
- Jean A. Shipman
Institutions
- RELX Group (Netherlands) (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA
- Published
- 2026-02-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2026.2431
- Primary Topic
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00