Stages of a Grief Collection: Creating a Focused Section in a Hospital Library

摘要

The topics of coping with grief and end of life are certainly ones that present themselves in a cancer hospital library. The efforts to create a new, larger, focused area for these topics have enabled library users to have a streamlined browsing experience. Additionally, now that Grief has its own location and can be cataloged as such, circulation data on this specific collection can be retrieved within the catalog management system via a simple report. These usage reports show that both browsing and circulation of these titles are steady. Finally, the Grief collection's physical adjacency to the grief and end of life pamphlets promote usage of both the pamphlets and the books in the collection.