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"In Managing Health Sciences Libraries in a Time of Change, experienced leaders of the medical library community present insights into the current trends and issues faced by health sciences librarians and offer practical guidelines and management skills needed to create a culture of excellence. The Medical Library Association points out that ""Management skills and a leader's abilities affect the culture and performance of coworkers and the effectiveness of an institution."" The last decades have resulted in a sea change for health sciences library leadership and management. In a short period of time, medical libraries have transformed from collections of print books and journals to databases of digital resources accessible from any desktop. Library services no longer must be provided face to face, but the need for virtual library services has grown in complexity and now demands a greater knowledge of technology and informatics. Reference service, instruction, cataloging, and collection development all remain as key library tasks, but they have been transformed in this digital environment. This book explores what it means to be a manager of health sciences libraries today. Chapters focus on current trends in health science library leadership; managing change; staffing issues; managing for diversity, equity, and inclusion; mentoring; accreditation and evaluation; leadership skills, and a discussion of the differences between the concepts of leadership and management."

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Traditional libraries take note: Medical and health sciences libraries are leading the way through the transition of library collections and services in the electronic resources age and the transformation of libraries within our academic institutions, health programs, and academic medical centers.Managing Health Sciences Libraries in a Time of Change is a must-read for those leading and aspiring to lead these special libraries.

Traditional libraries take note: Medical and health sciences libraries are leading the way through the transition of library collections and services in the electronic resources age and the transformation of libraries within our academic institutions, health programs, and academic medical centers.Managing Health Sciences Libraries in a Time of Change is a must-read for those leading and aspiring to lead these special libraries. --Martin Wood, MSLIS, AHIP, director, Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library, Florida State University College of Medicine

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Claire Joseph has been the Director of the Medical Library at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, NY for more than 20 years. Mount Sinai South Nassau is a 455-bed acute care, teaching community hospital and is the Long Island flagship of the Mount Sinai Health System NY, NY. As a solo librarian, Claire manages all aspects of library management and services. Claire is active in the Medical Library Association and other professional organizations. She is Chair Elect of the Consumer and Patient Health Education Caucus, a column editor for the Nursing and Allied Health Caucus newsletter, and a past chair of the Hospital Libraries Section. She also is an active member of several hospital committees. She is the author of The Medical Library Association Guide to Developing Consumer Health Collections, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. Claire is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet and the Book Review editor for the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. In addition, she has authored journal articles and presented numerous continuing education programs for library and nursing associations. Priscilla Stephenson has been a hospital library manager in public, for-profit, and VA hospital libraries, as well as a reference department head and faculty member at an academic health sciences library. She is the Chief, Library Service, at James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Florida where she coordinates staff and resources for the medical and patient libraries in the main hospital and two Patient Education Resource Centers (PERCs) in affiliated community clinics in suburban Tampa. She is actively involved in planning for PERCs in two new facilities under construction in nearby towns. Priscilla is active professionally in the Medical Library Association and several of its sections. She is a past chair of the Southern Chapter, the Federal Libraries Section, and the Hospital Libraries Section. She has served on the editorial boards of JMLA and EBLIP, edited an annual column in MRSQ since 2012, and co-edited a quarterly column in JCHI since 2006. Her publications include a chapter in Consumer Health Information Service and Programs: Best Practices (M. Sandra Wood, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, c2016), and numerous journal articles.

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