Health sciences collection management for the twenty-first century - Kendall, Susan K. 1968- (Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)
The health sciences publishing environment -- One library's story: putting together a collection to support a new medical school -- Managing a health sciences collection -- One library's story: Duke University Medical Center librarians learn to embrace weeding projects -- Managing a collection budget -- One library's story: creating and sustaining a hospital library consortium for purchasing online journals -- User-oriented collection assessment -- One library's story: All or nothing: the University of California walks away from ClinicalKey -- Collaborative collection management -- One library's story: building a Texas-sized shared print repository -- Discovery of the health sciences collection -- One library's story: supporting a reimagined medical school curriculum with targeted library collections and licenses -- Usability and accessibility for health sciences collections -- One library's story: developing accessibility purchasing procedures for electronic resources at the Michigan State University Libraries -- Data in the library: considerations for collection development policy and practice -- The hunt of the unicorn: collection development for special collections in health sciences libraries -- The future of health sciences collection management.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Collection development (Libraries); Medical libraries; Library Materials; Collection building (Libraries)