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Building Health Sciences Library Collections: A Handbook provides readers with an accessible, in-depth reference for building their library's collection. Designed for all librarians, whether new or experienced, to aid in the bibliographic selection of a variety of materials in different formats
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Collection Development in the Health Sciences
Megan Inman 2 Developing Diverse and Inclusive Collections
Derek Marshall3 Managing Collections through Deselection Processes
Marlena Rose and Alessia Zanin-Yost4 Keeping Up to Date with Emerging Topics in Collections
Matthew Noe5 Developing Your Medicine Collection
Robyn Gleasner6 Developing Your Nursing Collection
Robyn Gleasner7 Developing Your Allied Health Collection
Alessia Zanin-Yost8 Open Educational Resources in Health Sciences Collections: Great Promise, Great Challenges
Kerry Sewell and Jeanne Hoover9 Nontraditional Online Collections
Megan InmanAbout the Editors
About the Contributors
About the author
Megan Inman, MLIS, is the collection development librarian at East Carolina University, William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library. She has served in this role for the past seven years, following a number of years in reference services. She has a BA in psychology from Queens University of Charlotte and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Megan serves on the editorial board for Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. She has published several book chapters, articles, reviews, and an edited book. She has served on numerous national and regional committees in varying leadership roles. Marlena Rose is the assistant director of collections & historical services at the Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University. She has presented at library conferences and written articles on collection development and technical services. Rose holds an MLIS from San Jose State University and a BA in communications from the University of Memphis. Rose previously served as chair of the Technical Services Caucus of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and has served on national and regional committees associated with health science librarianship. She is certified by MLA as an Academy of Health Information Professional at the senior level.
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Building Health Sciences Library Collections: A Handbook provides readers with an accessible, in-depth reference for building their library's collection. Designed for all librarians, whether new or experienced, to aid in the bibliographic selection of a variety of materials in different formats
