Awards

• Commended for Doody's Core Titles 2020 (United States).
• Commended for Doody's Core Titles 2022.
• Commended for Doody’s Core Titles 2022.
• Winner of Doody's Core Titles 2020.
• Winner of Doody’s Core Titles 2022.

Overview

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 flexibility ·Gathering 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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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

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

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 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 *

Author Information

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.

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