摘要：Medical librarians have unique opportunities to work with clinicians, researchers, and students to help them meet their goals and develop new knowledge. To fully commit to this work, librarians and information professionals working in biomedical environments need to acknowledge the level at which these fields are evolving in both speed and complexity. Librarians in biomedical and health-related settings are seeing firsthand how data-intensive the work of their patron communities has become and the extent to which their work has become geographically distributed and interdisciplinary. Whether the discussion focuses on bioinformatics, electronic health records, computational biomedicine, or outcomes research, librarians must provide resources to meet complex needs. Similarly, the needs of librarians themselves are quickly evolving as they learn to work in increasingly complex administrative and research roles that require them to regularly work with diverse groups of collaborators. A variety of tools are available to support geographically distributed, interdisciplinary, data-intensive work. One such tool is GitHub.
