Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1640

Keywords:

health sciences libraries, academic health sciences libraries, Hospital Libraries, hospital librarians, Virtual Library, virtual learning

Abstract

Health sciences libraries serving universities and medical facilities have long used technology to provide library services, but COVID-19 presented libraries with unique challenges. Libraries shut their doors and adapted to conducting reference, instruction, and outreach, remotely. For some libraries described in Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook, those services had been done in the library; for others, the library had considered adding virtual services. For those libraries that have not made the jump, this text presents strategies to which all health sciences libraries would find a useful reference. Given its practical strategies and engaging text, this reviewer finds Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook to be an inspiring and a highly recommended reference for health sciences libraries. 

Author Biography

Barbara M. Pope, Leonard H. Axe Library Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, KS

Barbara M. Pope is the Periodicals/Reference Librarian at Leonard H. Axe Library at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. Professor Pope manages the periodicals collection in all formats, databases, LibGuides, as well as being a liaison to the Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing and the Biology Department. While she has worked at PSU for 14 years, she has been a professional librarian for 22 years.

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Published

2023-03-24

Issue

Vol. 110 No. 4 (2022): October 2022

Section

Book Review

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Copyright (c) 2022 Barbara M. Pope

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