TY - JOUR
T1 - Essential and core books for veterinary medicine
AU - Moberly, Heather K.
AU - Page, Jessica R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the 2017 South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Writing Retreat and cohort for advice and workshopping a late-stage draft; Vicki F. Croft, AHIP, FMLA, emeritus, Washington State University, for advice and support for the project from the nascent stages; Esther E. Carrigan, AHIP, Texas A&M University, for methodology advice and subject classification for the survey; Fiona Brown, University of Edinburgh, Ana Ugaz, AHIP, Texas A&M University, and Diana Farmer, emeritus, Kansas State University, for working with Moberly, Page, Croft, and Carrigan on a presentation for MLA '13, the 113th annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, Boston, MA; and veterinary librarians and staff at 20 AVMA accredited veterinary schools for participating in the survey in 2015.
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PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - Objectives: This study defined core and essential lists of recent, English-language veterinary medicine books using a data-driven methodology for potential use by a broad audience, including libraries that are building collections supporting veterinary sciences and One Health initiatives. Methods: Book titles were collected from monograph citation databases, veterinary examination reading lists, veterinary college textbook and library reserve lists, and published bibliographies. These lists were combined into a single list with titles ranked by the number of occurrences. Results: The methodology produced a core list of 122 monographs and an essential list of 33 titles. All titles are recent, edition neutral, English language monographs. One title is out of print. Conclusions: The methodology captured qualitative and quantitative input from four distinct populations who use veterinary monographs: veterinary practitioners, educators, researchers, and librarians. Data were collected and compiled to determine core and essential lists that represented all groups. Unfortunately, data are not available for all subareas of veterinary medicine, resulting in uneven subject coverage. This methodology can be replicated and adapted for other subject areas.
AB - Objectives: This study defined core and essential lists of recent, English-language veterinary medicine books using a data-driven methodology for potential use by a broad audience, including libraries that are building collections supporting veterinary sciences and One Health initiatives. Methods: Book titles were collected from monograph citation databases, veterinary examination reading lists, veterinary college textbook and library reserve lists, and published bibliographies. These lists were combined into a single list with titles ranked by the number of occurrences. Results: The methodology produced a core list of 122 monographs and an essential list of 33 titles. All titles are recent, edition neutral, English language monographs. One title is out of print. Conclusions: The methodology captured qualitative and quantitative input from four distinct populations who use veterinary monographs: veterinary practitioners, educators, researchers, and librarians. Data were collected and compiled to determine core and essential lists that represented all groups. Unfortunately, data are not available for all subareas of veterinary medicine, resulting in uneven subject coverage. This methodology can be replicated and adapted for other subject areas.
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U2 - 10.5195/jmla.2018.391
DO - 10.5195/jmla.2018.391
M3 - Article
C2 - 29962908
AN - SCOPUS:85049428625
SN - 1536-5050
VL - 106
SP - 304
EP - 310
JO - Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
JF - Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
IS - 3
ER -