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Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces de Alanna Campbell

Transforming Health Sciences Library Spaces: Medical Library Association Books Series

Editat de Alanna Campbell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2019
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 flexibilityGathering 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538114674
ISBN-10: 1538114674
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 77 b/w photos; 9 tables; 6 textboxes
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Medical Library Association Books Series

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

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.
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.
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."
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.