Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical

Name: Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical
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Erschienen am 16. Juli 2014

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Get the tools to meet the challenge of building or renovating a library!

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 buildingswith each study explaining proven strategies which can be used or adapted to fit the reader's own circumstances.

Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations explains the steps in the planning process, including needs analysis, goal setting, and public relations, as well as the practical considerations of packing and unpacking. The contributors are noted library authorities intimately involved in every facet of the construction procedure and cost accounting, and the book includes helpful photographs, illustrations, tables, and appendices to clarify and help practicing librarians and library students alike fully understand the strategies needed to create a functional library facility that fulfills expectations.

Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations includes case studies of:

a resource library moved into a basement

renovations to the Osler Library at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

construction of the Booker Health Services Library at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center

a merger of two libraries at Trinitas Hospital, Elizabeth, New Jersey

the renovation of a small hospital library

designing a new library in a historic naval hospital

the Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library Renovation Project

expansion and renovation of the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University

and much more!

Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical Centers, and Health Organizations is an insightful resource for educators, students, and librarians of all types.

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Inhalt

About the Editor

Contributors

Foreword (Logan Ludwig)

Introduction

PART I: SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Case Study 1. ACOG Resource Center Happily Moves to the Basement (Mary A. Hyde and Pamela Van Hine)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Results

Moving the Collection

Recommendations

Conclusion

Appendix A: Space Priorities and Goals

Appendix B: Budget Summary for New ACOG Resource Center, 2000

Case Study 2. Preserving Medical History: Recent Renovations to the Osler Library (Pamela J. Miller)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Results

Appendix A: The Words of the Architect

Appendix B: Steps in the Planning Process

Appendix C: Guidelines Used to Calculate Packing and Unpacking Time

PART II: HOSPITAL LIBRARIES

Case Study 3. Booker Health Sciences Library (Catherine M. Boss)

Overview

Introduction

Health Sciences Library Planning

Project Financing

Furnishings

Preparation of the Nursing Collection

Moving the Collections

Conclusion

Case Study 4. A Tale of Two Libraries: Overview of a Merger (Elisabeth Jacobsen)

Overview

Introduction

Project Summary

Project Timeline

Issues and Problems

Lessons Learned

Conclusion

Case Study 5. Renovating a Small Hospital Library (Veronica Dawn Stewart)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Preparation

Shelving Gains

Maintaining Patron Service

Results

Abandoned Ideas and Plans Gone Awry

Conclusion

Case Study 6. Blending the New with the Old: Designing a New Library in a Historic Naval Hospital (Jane A. Pellegrino and Lisa R. Eblen)

Overview

Introduction

Objective

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Case Study 7. The Hope Fox Eccles Clinical Library Renovation Project (T. Elizabeth Workman)

Overview

Introduction

Facility RenovationPhysical Description

Methods

Outcomes

Conclusion

PART III: ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER LIBRARIES

Case Study 8. Managing a Library Renovation Project: A Team Approach (Deanna M. Lucia and Mary E. Piorun)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Case Study 9. Continuous Library Facility Improvement at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (Janis Teal and Holly Shipp Buchanan)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Results

User Survey

Conclusion

Case Study 10. The McGoogan Library of Medicine: A Value-Added Approach to Renovation (Nancy N. Woelfl, Stuart K. Dayton, Tom Gensichen, Mary E. Helms, and Marie Reidelbach)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Project Phasing

Formal and Information Communication

Results

Lessons Learned

Conclusion

Case Study 11. Ebling Library: Planning a Three-Library Merger and Move (Sylvia Contreras, Erika Sevetson, Natalie Norcross, Julie Schneider, and Daniel Barkey)

Overview

Introduction

Service Integration

Collection Shelving and Preparation

Information Technology

Public Relations

Clutter Eradication

Conclusion

Case Study 12. The Welch Medical Library: A New Model for the Delivery of Library Services (Willard F. Bryant Jr., Jayne M. Campbell, Kathleen Burr Oliver, and Nancy K. Roderer)

Overview

Introduction

Methods

Central Core Facility

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