Description
Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces presents first-hand case studies and practical advice on transforming health sciences library spaces in the 21st century. Collected here are the experiences and thoughts of librarians on the transformation of health sciences library spaces. They provide insights into planning, budgeting, collecting, and integrating user feedback, collaborating with leadership and architects and thriving in the good times and the tight times.
The book has three main sections:
The Realities of Making Virtual Work
Library Spaces that Work for Users
Library Spaces Working with What They’ve Got
These tackle crucial issues including:
- Identifying and overhauling dated spaces that lack flexibility
- Gathering information on usage behavior and user feedback in relation to our spaces.
- Working with feedback to increase satisfaction, and use of the library space with little funds.
- Removing a large percentage of the physical collection and deciding what to replace it with.
- Maximizing relationships with stakeholders such as leadership and external departments to transform the library space.
- Understanding what going 100% virtual means in practice.
- Managing usage of materials not traditionally well suited to online access.
About the Editor
Alanna Campbell, MISt is the Public Services Librarian with the Health Sciences Library at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). Her research interests include library spaces, user engagement and evidence based medicine. Alanna has presented at a number of conferences on these topics, and more, including the Canadian Health Libraries Association’s and Medical Library Association’s annual conferences, Library as Place and the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference. Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces was edited based on her passion for library spaces and desire to keep them relevant, up to date and meaningful.
