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Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century, readers learn about best practices and also the big picture and the deeper changes that affect decision making. Chapter contributors provide unique perspectives to topics and demonstrate the thoughtfulness of today's health sciences collection management librarians.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Health Sciences Publishing Environment - T. Scott Plutchak
One Library's Story: Putting Together a Collection to Support a New Medical School - Elizabeth R. Lorbeer and Joseph A. Costello
Chapter 2: Managing a health sciences collection - Susan E. Swogger
One Library's Story: Duke University Medical Center Librarians Learn to Embrace Weeding Projects - Emma Cryer Heet
Chapter 3: Managing a Collections Budget - Steven W. Sowards and Joseph J. Harzbecker, Jr.
One Library's Story: Creating and Sustaining a Hospital Library Consortium for Purchasing Online Journals - Kathleen Strube
Chapter 4: User-Oriented Collection Assessment - Linda A. Van Keuren
One Library's Story: All or Nothing: The University of California Walks Away from ClinicalKey - Sarah McClung, Rikke Sarah Ogawa, and Bruce Abbott
Chapter 5: Collaborative collection management - Esther E. Carrigan, Nancy G. Buford, and Ana G. Ugaz
One Library's Story: Building a Texas-Sized Shared Print Repository - Esther E. Carrigan, Nancy G. Burford and Ana G. Ugaz
Chapter 6: Discovery of the Health Sciences Collection - Susan K. Kendall
One Library's Story: Supporting a Reimagined Medical School Curriculum with Targeted Library Collections and Licenses - Iris Kovar-Gough
Chapter 7: Usability and Accessibility for Health Sciences Collections - Jessica Shira Sender and Heidi M. Schroeder
One Library's Story: Developing Accessibility Procedures for Purchasing Materials at the Michigan State University Libraries - Heidi M. Schroeder
Chapter 8: Data Considerations for Collection Development Policy and Practice - Lisa Federer
Chapter 9: The Hunt of the Unicorn: Collection Development for Special Collections in Health Sciences Libraries - Stephen J. Greenberg
Chapter 10: The Future of Health Sciences Collection Management - Susan K. Kendall
About the author
Susan K. Kendall, PhD., MS(LIS), is the coordinator for Health Sciences at the Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, Michigan. She has managed collections for the biological sciences for 15 years and coordinated collections for the health sciences for 11 years. She has served on the editorial board of the journals, Collection Management, Journal of the Medical Library Association, and Biomedical Digital Libraries and has published several book chapters, articles, and reviews.
Summary
Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century, readers learn about best practices and also the big picture and the deeper changes that affect decision making. Chapter contributors provide unique perspectives to topics and demonstrate the thoughtfulness of today’s health sciences collection management librarians.
