Planning, renovating, expanding, and constructing library facilities in hospitals, academic medical centers, and health organizations
By: Elizabeth Connor, editor.
Contributors: Connor, Elizabeth, MLS.
Series: Haworth Information Press medical librarianship
Publisher: Haworth Information Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780789025401; 9780789025418
Subjects: Medical libraries -- United States -- Case studies; Hospital libraries -- United States -- Case studies; Library buildings -- United States -- Design and construction -- Case studies; Library buildings -- Remodeling -- United States -- Case studies; Libraries, Medical -- organization & administration; Libraries, Hospital -- organization & administration; Facility Design and Construction; Organizational Case Studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: The challenge of renovating or constructing a library requires organizational skill, resourcefulness, creativity, and willingness to compromise. Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations presents thirteen insightful case studies revealing how many libraries have been have been built or renovated using innovations designed to meet a specific organization's needs. Each study plainly highlights objectives, methods, results, and conclusions, and reviews the design of the completed library. Ideas and approaches are presented clearly, showing the designing, refurbishing, and refurnishing of existing library space; the merging of library collections and services; and the construction of multimillion dollar library buildings -- with each study explaining proven strategies which can be used or adapted to fit the reader's own circumstances.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ACOG Resource Center happily moves to the basement / Mary Hyde, Pamela Van Hine; title: Preserving medical history : recent renovations to the Osler Library / Pamela J. Miller; title: Booker Health Sciences Library / Catherine M. Boss; title: A tale of two libraries : overview of a merger / Elisabeth Jacobsen; title: Renovating a small hospital library / Veronica Dawn Stewart; title: Blending the new with the old : designing a new library in a historic naval hospital / Jane A. Pellegrino, Lisa R. Eblen; title: The Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library renovation project / T. Elizabeth Workman; title: Managing a library renovation project : a team approach / Deanna M. Lucia; title: Continuous library facility improvement at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center / Janis Teal, Holly Shipp Buchanan; title: The McGoogan Library Of Medicine : a value-added approach to renovation / Nancy N. Woelfl ... [et al.]; title: Health Sciences Learning Center : planning for a three library merger and move / Erika Sevetson ... [et al.]; title: The Welch Medical Library : a new model for the delivery of library services / Willard F. Bryant Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Library renovation planning / Ralph D. Arcari.