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To top of page Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship (8 volume series)

The critical desk reference for every working health sciences information professional!
Alison Bunting, editor-in-chief
Reference and Information Services in Health Sciences Libraries
Volume 1 of Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship series
M. Sandy Wood, editor
Reference and Information Services

1994 (394 pp., hardcover)
ISBN 0-8108-2765-4

Scarecrow Press Item # 0-8108-2765-4

MLA Member price: $36.00 plus shipping/handling; nonmembers: $45.00 plus shipping/handling.

This volume documents current practice, state of the art innovations, and trends in health sciences reference and information services, with an emphasis on new technologies. Chapters included are "General Reference Services," "Databases and Database Searching," "Microcomputers and Refernce Service," "Management of Reference Service," "Specialized Types of Management and Reference Services," and "Information Technologies-Now and the Future."

Contents emphasize developments in reference services over the past decade, along with future directions based on changes in information technology. The volume is aimed at practicing health sciences librarians and information science students and is relevant to other librarians as well.

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To top of page Reviews

"This highly recommended volume succeeds in bringing together historical, current, and emerging trends for reference services in the health sciences."

—Medical Reference Services Quarterly

To top of page Table of Contents

Preface

Alison Bunting

Advisory Committee Members
Authors
Introduction M. Sandra Wood

General Reference Services

Nancy Calabretta

Databases and Database Searching

Gertrude Foreman and Vicki L. Glasgow

Microcomputers and Reference Service

Janis F. Brown and Gale G. Hannigan

Management of Reference Services

Nancy W. Clemmons and Diane G. Schwartz

Specialized Types of Reference and Information Services

Joan M. Stoddart and Kathleen M. McCloskey

Information Technologies: Now and the Future

Karen A. Butter

Appendix A

Position Description: Reference Desk/Interlibrary Loan Services Coodinator

Appendix B

Position Description: Information Management Education/Database Services Coordinator

Appendix C

Position Description: Information Services Librarian

Appendix D

Training Plan: Information Services Librarian

Appendix E

Training Plan: Library Science Graduate Student Intern

Appendix F

Outline of Information Services Manual

Appendix G

Outline for a Reference Collection Policy

Glossary
Index
Author Biographies

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