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To top of page Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship (8 volume series)

The critical desk reference for every working health sciences information professional!
Alison Bunting, editor-in-chief
Collection Development and Assessment in Health Sciences Libraries Volume 4 of of Current Practice in Health Sciences Daniel T. Richards and Dottie Eakin
Information Access and Delivery in Health Sciences Libraries

Librarianship series
1997 (360 pp., hardcover)
ISBN 0-8108-3201-1

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To top of page Reviews

"No comparable work covering the principles of collection development and assessment in health sciences libraries currently exists...this book is full of useful advise and concrete examples of methods covering nearly every aspect of collection development."

—Library Journal

"This book belongs in every health sciences library. Richards and Eakin have not only produced an excellent practice guide, they may very well have produced the best book about collection development currently available on the market in spite of its specific focus on the health sciences."

—BMLA

To top of page Table of Contents

Preface

Alison Bunting

Expert Reviewers

Advisory Committee Members

Authors

Introduction

Daniel T. Richards and Dottie Eakin

The Context for Collection Development in Health Sciences Libraries
Roles and Relationships in Collection Development
Education and Training for Collection Development
Policies and Criteria
Selection: Journals and Books
Selection: Electronic Resources
Selection in Special Settings
Reference Collections
Audiovisual Collections
Consumer Health Collections
Rare Book and History of Medicine Collections
Reference Collections
Audiovisual Collections
Consumer Health Collections
Rare Book and History of Medicine Collections
Budgeting for Collection Development
Collection Assessment
Cooperative Collection Development
Preservation
Research Questions and Future Issues in Collection Development
Appendix A

Examples from Collection Development Policies

Appendix B

Representative Special Setting Collection Development Policies

Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Author Biographies
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