Steven L. MacCall

Associate Professor of Library and Information Studies

MacCall’s primary interest is digital libraries research in medical and health areas, where he studies the information needs of clinicians and rural heath care providers, and in public libraries, where he examines how the Internet meets the information needs of communities. He also researches problems associated with the relevance-based measurement of Internet information retrieval.

Selected Publications:

Hogan-Smith, C., MacCall, S. L., & Vucovich, L. A. (2007). MedlinePlus “Go Local” and consumer health collection development. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 112, 43-59.

MacCall, S. L. (2006). Clinical Digital Libraries Project design approach and exploratory assessment of timely use in clinical environments. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94, 190-197

MacCall, S. L. (2006). Online medical books, their availability and an assessment of how health sciences libraries provide access on their public Websites. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94, 75-80.