Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities i

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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... Read more

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 buildings—with 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. Read less

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 Renovation—Physical 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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