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From: Martha Starck <StarckM_at_matc.edu>
I have done several things to get recommendations for nursing books:
1. The Brandon-Hill list of Print Nursing Books and Journals which
has been a standard for over 20 years, and came out every 2 years. The
last list was in 2002 and appeared in Nursing Outlook, June, 2002, or
can be found at:
http://www.mssm.edu/library/brandon-hill/nursing/index.shtml
The Brandon-Hill medical lists have now been discontinued due to the
retirement of both authors, and I haven't heard if anyone is working
on a replacement for them. Recently, I used the 2002 list and searched
our book vendor's database (YBP) for newer editions or newer titles
by the same authors.
2. We have a slip approval plan with YBP that sends us slips for new
books on subjects we have profiled for, including nursing. I route
slips to nursing faculty for their recommendation.
3. Faculty recommendations - in addition to routing approval slips to
faculty, I am an ex-offico member of the nursing department's Learning
Resources Committee which deals with purchasing materials for their
labs and classrooms as well as recommending materials for the library
and assisting with weeding library materials in nursing. A Learning
Resources Committee is an accreditation requirement of the National
League of Nursing for nursing programs. A year ago, we took the
subjects from the Brandon-Hill list and routed them around to nursing
faculty to get more volunteers to review approval slips on specific
subjects. We got a lot of volunteers, but participation varies - some
faculty return their slips promptly while others are very slow about
it and I sometimes have to make my own abritrary decisions.
Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 08:41:41 EDT