摘要：The Medical Library Association's (MLA's) 2007 research policy statement [1] charged the MLA Research Section with defining the MLA research agenda on a recurring basis [2]. In 2008, the MLA Research Section's Research Agenda Committee used a group consensus technique known as the delphi method that involved both researchers and leaders to articulate MLA's twelve highest priority research questions. The MLA Board adopted these twelve questions as the 2008 MLA research agenda. A subsequent article reporting these top twelve questions includes detailed description of the committee's research methodology [3].
