'Meeting abstracts' in a medical context are concise summaries of research findings, clinical cases, or scientific innovations presented at medical conferences or meetings, serving as a quick reference for attendees and a means to disseminate new knowledge within the medical community.

Conferences, conventions or formal meetings usually attended by delegates representing a special field of interest.

Discussion of lists of works, documents or other publications, usually with some relationship between them, e.g., by a given author, on a given subject, or published in a given place, and differing from a catalog in that its contents are restricted to holdings of a single collection, library, or group of libraries. (from The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)

Development of a library collection, including the determination and coordination of selection policy, assessment of needs of users and potential users, collection use studies, collection evaluation, identification of collection needs, selection of materials, planning for resource sharing, collection maintenance and weeding, and budgeting.