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Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical (Hardcover, New)
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Planning, Renovating, Expanding, and Constructing Library Facilities in Hospitals, Academic Medical (Hardcover, New)
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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 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 buildingswith 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.
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