Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 306
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-5381-1467-4 • Hardback • February 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-5381-1468-1 • eBook • February 2019 • $98.50 • (£76.00)
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.
Part I: Library Spaces That Work for Users
Chapter 1
Consumer Health Library Spaces: ‘If you build it, will they come?’
Stevo Rocksandic and Allison Erlinger
Chapter 2
Space Utilization Study by Ithika S+R
Mellanye Lackey, Jean P. Shipman, Camille Salmond, and Darell Schmick
Chapter 3
Services and Space in Support of Innovation
Valrie Minson, Christine Driver Yip, Sara Russell Gonzalez, Neelam Bharti and Adam Brown
Chapter 4
Rethink, Redo, Repurpose: Transforming the Library Space to Meet Clients' Needs
Stevo Roksandic and Allison Erlinger
Part II: Working in Unique Spaces
Chapter 5
From There to Here to Virtual: Transformative Change at Chamberlain University
Lisa Blackwell
Chapter 6
Showing Leadership in Virtual Library Spaces
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
Chapter 7
Reimagining Special Collections Spaces
Esther Carrigan and Nancy Burford
Part III: Library Spaces Working with What They’ve Got
Chapter 8
How One Library Streamlined, Slimmed Down and Became More Efficient After Losing 50% of Their Space
Jessica Decaro and Shannon Butcheck
Chapter 9
Surviving Tight Budgets and Proving Value-Added in Library Spaces
Margaret Hoogland
Chapter 10
Nickel and Diming Library Space Improvements with the Annual Library Budget
Alanna Campbell and Patty Fink
Epilogue: To Be a Building or Not to Be
Looking Toward the Future
Jean Shipman and Alanna Campbell
Health science library spaces still hold significant meaning and value in the digital age of electronic resources. There is opportunity now more than ever for library leaders to creatively rethink, reimagine, and repurpose libraries as physical destinations that users will want to visit. This is the takeaway message from this new Medical Library Association title edited by Allana Campbell, a public services librarian at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Health Sciences Library. The text contains ten chapters written by contributors with extensive combined experience in health sciences librarianship. The majority of the chapters are written as practical case studies of initiatives that have proven successful. Images, figures, and tables illustrate key points and examples. The majority of the book explores user-centeredness in library space design as well as how to create unique library spaces (both physical and virtual). The book's final section focuses on a challenge that the majority of today’s libraries are surely experiencing: how to do more with less. While the topic of transforming library spaces is not new, this book fills a gap in available literature specifically addressing health science, medical, and hospital libraries.— Choice Reviews
With a specific focus on health sciences libraries, this book offers a unique look at recent transformations of library spaces. . . Health sciences librarians beginning space transformations will find the variety of chapters useful and will be able to build on the shared experiences of colleagues.— Doody's Review Service
Transforming Health Sciences Spaces explores the need to consider all aspects surrounding how we regard the “library as place” whether it is a physical or virtual space. From new spaces, to reimagining old spaces, to contemplating no space, to the importance of aligning with user and community needs, this book leaves no corner of the conversation unexamined. It is a complete and critical resource for those involved or interested in any conversation regarding library “space.”— M.J. Toovey, MLS, AHIP, FMLA, Executive Director, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore
This book provides excellent first-hand experiences of the trials, triumphs, and innovative ways that health sciences library spaces have been transformed to meet the needs of the users. — Rebecca O. Davis, MSLS, PhD, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.
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