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To top of page The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries

Ruth Holst, editor, and Sharon A. Phillips, associate editor
The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries

2000 (385 pages, soft cover)
ISBN 1-55570-397-6

MLA Member price: $76.50 plus shipping/handling; nonmembers: $85.00 plus shipping/handling.

The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries is required reading for any librarian offering health care information to professionals, faculty, or consumers.

Vast changes in the U.S. health care system are reshaping how librarians provide services to physicians and other patient caregivers, as well as to medical and allied health sciences students and faculty.

Twenty-one experts have contributed to this groundbreaking text. Chapters include specific, practical advice on administrative issues, planning and marketing, financial management, space planning, collection development, cataloging and classification, document delivery, audiovisual services--every aspect of managing today's ever-changing health care library.

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To top of page Reviews

"It admirably conveys a basic understanding of what we do, even who we are as information professionals. ...Select chapters dealing with the challenges of solo librarianship as well as our new roles in the information era are worthy of mention. ...MLA should be commended for publishing a valuable addition to the literature with broad appeal for both student librarians as well as seasoned professionals."

—Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana 2002 Fall; 24(1): 73-74

"...The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries, not only updates the original upon which it is based but surpasses it in breadth of coverage, organization, and usability. ...The first two chapters in particular should be required reading for library students or new hospital librarians hoping to understand the complexities of health care libraries and the current health care environment. ...Other chapters in the book are just as useful. It is equally easy to read the book from cover to cover, as it is to delve into it for a specific purpose or topic.

—Bull Med Libr Assoc 2001 July; 89 (3): 318-320

"After 17 years, the Medical Library Association's venerable Hospital Library Management has been revised, updated, and expanded into what must be considered the new gold standard in health science librarianship textbooks. …A comprehensive resource for students, librarians in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, and those public and academic librarians who serve medical professionals. …For added value, more than 80 figures—templates, samples, formulas, and charts—make the book not only a solid overview of the profession but a superlative hands-on guide for practitioners. Highly recommended for all healthcare libraries."

—Library Journal

To top of page Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Libraries in Health Care Settings: An Introduction

Ruth Holst

2. The Health Care Environment

Eloise C. Foster, Gail L. Warden

3. Administrative Issues

Ruth Holst, Sharon A. Phillips

4. Planning and Marketing

Beth A. Salzwedel, Ellen Wilson Green

5. Quality Improvement

Nardina Nameth Mein

6. Financial Management

Sharon A. Phillips

7. Human Resources Management

Holly Shipp Buchanan

8. Space Planning

Rosanne Labree

9. Managing the One Person Library

Judith M. Topper, Karen McNally Bensing

10. Information and Educational Services

Jacqueline D. Doyle, Kay E. Wellik

11. Information Resources

Susan F. Anderson, Michelynn McKnight

12. Collection Development

Ruth Holst, Elaine Noonan Skopelja

13. Access to Library Resources

Kimberley M. Granath, Marlene S. Englander, Gretchen A. Hallerberg

14. Document Delivery

Ruth Holst, Karen McNally Bensing

15. Managing Audiovisual Services

Sharon A. Phillips, Larry D. Weitkemper

16. Health Information for Patients and Consumers

Margaret Bandy

Index
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