Is CISTI Canadas National Library of Medicine?
The answer to this question is an emphatic “Well, sort of”. As mentioned above, CISTI is Canada’s de-facto national library of medicine. But the fact is that Canada does not have its own national library of medicine in the same way that the United States has the NLM. Neither through legislation nor the vision of many Canadian Health Librarians – Leaders, Past and Present have we been able to set up a system to replace CISTI – which some feel is adequate enough for our needs yet others feel much more can and should be done. Influential Canadian health librarians are working towards a new vision for health information provision in Canada called the National Network of Libraries of Health.
