CDL: Consumer health sciences collections

From: John P. Abbott <abbottjp_at_appstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:28:02 -0400
To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
JMLA article of interest
From:
Lauren Young <fyi.jmla_at_gmail.com>


The Journal of the Medical Library Association is pleased to announce 
the publication of v.102(2), April 2014. The issue contains the 
following article that we believe might be relevant and of interest to 
members of the COLLDV-L listserv:

*What criteria do consumer health librarians use to develop library 
collections? a phenomenological study 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988777/>*
Janet Papadakos, Aileen Trang, David Wiljer, Chiara Cipolat Mis, Alaina 
Cyr, Audrey Jusko Friedman, Mauro Mazzocut, Michelle Snow, Valeria 
Raivich, Pamela Catton

"The purpose of a phenomenological study is to generate descriptive data 
that answer a specific research question. These data can then be used to 
further prospective investigation of the phenomenon. [cite] Findings 
from this study present preliminary insight into (1) what the collection 
development process is for consumer health libraries and (2) how 
collection development policies are implemented in that process."

We invite you to visit us online to read this and other quality, 
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Thank you,

Lauren

-- 
Lauren M. Young, MLIS, MA, AHIP
Associate Editor for Social Media Dissemination
Journal of the Medical Library Association
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Received on Tue Jun 10 2014 - 03:02:02 EDT