奈良県立医科大学附属図書館における闘病記文庫の設置

Abstract

A student at Nara Medical University eagerly requested us to obtain a collection of "Tobyo-ki" books, in which patient narratives are described by the patients themselves and/or their caregivers. We decided to provide such a collection so that the University Library users could study patients' psychological states, such as fears and worrtes. Following the guidelines provided by the "Healthcare Information Bookshelf Project", we made preparations to obtain as many of the above-mentioned diaries and records as possible. Finally, we opened the collection in March 2008. Over the five months since, the number of users of this collection has rapidly increased. Our future task is to consider how the collection can be made available to the local community for improved healthcare of the conrmunity.