Hospital Libraries Section

Hospital Library Management

• The Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries
  
  Twenty-one experts have contributed to this ground breaking text. Chapters include specific, practical advice on administrative issues, planning and marketing, financial management, space planning, collection development, cataloging and classification, document delivery, audiovisual services--every aspect of managing today's ever-changing health care library. (Ruth Holst, editor, and Sharon A. Phillips, associate editor)
  
  
  

• National Network HLS/MLA official newsletter with tips from practicing librarians.
  
  

• Journal of Hospital Librarianship from Haworth Information Press. Carole M. Gilbert, editor.
  

• Benchmarking Project
  Information on the Benchmarking Project is available from MLANET under Members Only.
  
  
• Administration of a Small Medical Library [NNLM]

• Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century
  
  Competencies are defined as the interplay of knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes required to do a job effectively from the point of view of the performer and the observer. These include both professional and personal competencies. This set of knowledge and skills unique to special librarians allows us to function in a variety of environments to produce a continuum of value-added, customized information services that cannot be easily duplicated by others. (SLA document)

• The Librarian's Survival Kit from MLA

• Studies Relevant to Hospital Libraries

• Information Management and Accreditation
  
  A resource for MLA members who are preparing for JCAHO and other accreditation processes in clinical and educational health care settings. This site offers links to advise from other librarians, workshop materials, samples of projects and other resources to assist librarians with the accreditation process.
  
  
  
• Brandon/Hill Selected List