Growing Opportunities in the Hospital Library: Measuring the Collection Needs of Hospital Clinicians

摘要

Growing Opportunities in the Hospital Library: Measuring the Collection Needs of Hospital Clinicians (Growing Opportunities) was implemented at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center's Health Science Library in Burbank, California. The library embarked on this project to determine how its collection could better suit the needs of the hospital's clinicians. The goal was to streamline the collection by canceling underutilized journal titles, thereby making funds available to purchase more electronic resources. The library used usage statistics and surveys to make these decisions. Growing Opportunities resulted in the cancellation of 14 print journals, the addition of two electronic ones, and a collection more tailored to the library's users.