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Growing Opportunities in the Hospital Library: Measuring the Collection Needs of Hospital Clinicians

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Pages 113-119 | Received 28 Dec 2012, Accepted 10 Jan 2013, Published online: 22 Apr 2013
 

Abstract

Growing Opportunities in the Hospital Library: Measuring the Collection Needs of Hospital Clinicians (Growing Opportunities) was implemented at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center's Health Science Library in Burbank, California. The library embarked on this project to determine how its collection could better suit the needs of the hospital's clinicians. The goal was to streamline the collection by canceling underutilized journal titles, thereby making funds available to purchase more electronic resources. The library used usage statistics and surveys to make these decisions. Growing Opportunities resulted in the cancellation of 14 print journals, the addition of two electronic ones, and a collection more tailored to the library's users.

Acknowledgments

This article is based on a poster presented at MLA Annual Meeting, May 2012, Seattle, Washington.

This work was funded in part by the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences’ Certificate of Advanced Study in Health Sciences Librarianship program under the program's Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant Number i05-09-0087-09.

Notes

© Meredith Bloom and Lisa Marks

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