Selected list of books and journals for the small medical library

• Published in: Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1989-04, Vol.77 (2), p.139-169
• Main Authors: BRANDON, A. N, HILL, D. R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acquisition and access: development policy, licenses, censorship; Acquisitions; Bibliographies; Bibliography as Topic; Book Selection; Collection management; Direct Service Costs; Documentation institutions; Exact sciences and technology; Information and communication sciences; Information and document structure and analysis; Information processing and retrieval; Information science. Documentation; Information service management; Libraries, Hospital; Library and documentation centre management; Medical libraries; Patient Education as Topic; Periodicals as Topic; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Sciences and techniques of general use; Selection; Technical services; United States
• ISSN: 0025-7338

In the introduction to this revised list of 607 books and 141 journals, quality assurance programs of health care institutions and patient education are suggested as vehicles for more directly involving the hospital library and its collection in patient care. This list is intended as a selection guide for the small or medium-sized library in a hospital or comparable medical facility, or as a core collection for a consortium of small hospital libraries. Books and journals are categorized by subject; the book list is followed by an author/editor index, and the subject list of journals by an alphabetical title listing. To purchase the entire collection of books and to pay for 1989 subscriptions would require about $63,500. The cost of only the asterisked items totals $24,000.