Nominations for Louise Darling Medal
Please consider nominating a colleague for the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences! The Louise Darling Medal is presented annually to recognize distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences. The award was established in 1987 and first awarded in 1988, with a contribution by Ballen Booksellers […]
Before You Discard Those Journals On Your Shelves
According to a recent NLM Technical Bulletin post, “The National Network of Libraries of Medicine® (NN/LM®) and the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) are working to ensure the preservation and continued access to the historical literature through a new national cooperative medical journals print retention program.” In the work that has already been done, two […]
JM2010 Contributed Paper: Informatics at the Core of a New Biomedical Campus:Creating a Library to Support the Millennials by Merging Three Institution’s Ideologies to Create a User-Centered Resource
Posted by April R. Frost, MLIS Jacqueline D. Doyle, Lindsey Greene, and Kathleen Carlson presented this paper on the process of combining three college libraries’ resources into one library at the New Biomedical Campus in Phoenix. The goal of this endeavor is to provide seamless access to all three institutional resources by 2013. There are […]
JM2010 Contributed Paper: Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing
Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ With “Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing” Julie Kwan, Rick Burke and James Wiser shared first year results from the e-licensing collaborative between the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Pacific Southwest Region […]