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The handbook includes sections on information and access services, reference and instruction, collections, and clinical services, encompassing the challenges and opportunities presented by virtual services for nearly every area of the health sciences library.

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This comprehensive handbook will resonate with all health sciences libraries, large and small, urban and rural, after their pandemic pivot to exclusive use of virtual resources and services. The Handbook offers invaluable information on virtual services, including community engagement; empowering and supporting staff; adapting instruction and accessing educational materials for students; and models for research consultations online and virtual systematic review workshops. Highly recommended.--Claire B. Joseph, MS, MA, AHIP, Director, Singh Medical Library, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, NY

A positive outcome of the challenges of Covid, this volume is jam-packed with practical advice and examples for adding and assessing virtual services. Attuned to both the needs of administrators and practitioners, each thoughtful chapter, by a bevy of excellent writers and thinkers, share tips, frameworks, questions, and also provides additional online content. This is a must-read overview as it touches on virtual services from so many adjacent fields: marketing, human resources, assessment, scholarly communication and openness, sustainability. The definition of virtual services is broad - from twitter to telephone - so there are innovative examples in this volume for every kind of librarian, rural or urban, large hospital to small academic setting. You'll want to keep a copy of this book close at hand; I found myself thinking of colleagues to whom I would refer every chapter. Can people work from home? Should they work from home? Rutgers University librarians Weber and De Fino present evidence that people can and should, arguing that remote and hybrid work schedules are better for employees, libraries, and the environment....Though many recent studies have documented the improved productivity of employees who have chosen to work remotely, libraries were thrown into this largely unexplored realm, most with little or no time to plan as a result of the pandemic. Even were it not for pandemics, unforeseen electrical outages, floods, weather emergencies, earthquakes, terrorism, active shooters, and other unfortunate events require that libraries create emergency plans, taking into account the possibility of short- and long-term closures. Applicable to both public and technical services, this work is required reading for librarians and administrators of all types of libraries. Given its practical strategies and engaging text, this reviewer finds Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook to be an inspiring and a highly recommended reference for health sciences libraries. This comprehensive handbook will resonate with all health sciences libraries, large and small, urban and rural, after their pandemic pivot to exclusive use of virtual resources and services. The Handbook offers invaluable information on virtual services, including community engagement; empowering and supporting staff; adapting instruction and accessing educational materials for students; and models for research consultations online and virtual systematic review workshops. Highly recommended.

A positive outcome of the challenges of Covid, this volume is jam-packed with practical advice and examples for adding and assessing virtual services. Attuned to both the needs of administrators and practitioners, each thoughtful chapter, by a bevy of excellent writers and thinkers, share tips, frameworks, questions, and also provides additional online content. This is a must-read overview as it touches on virtual services from so many adjacent fields: marketing, human resources, assessment, scholarly communication and openness, sustainability. The definition of virtual services is broad - from twitter to telephone - so there are innovative examples in this volume for every kind of librarian, rural or urban, large hospital to small academic setting. You'll want to keep a copy of this book close at hand; I found myself thinking of colleagues to whom I would refer every chapter.--Holly Grossetta Nardini, Associate Director, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, Medical Library Association's 2018 Academic Medical Librarian of the Year This comprehensive handbook will resonate with all health sciences libraries, large and small, urban and rural, after their pandemic pivot to exclusive use of virtual resources and services. The Handbook offers invaluable information on virtual services, including community engagement; empowering and supporting staff; adapting instruction and accessing educational materials for students; and models for research consultations online and virtual systematic review workshops. Highly recommended.--Claire B. Joseph, MS, MA, AHIP, Director, Singh Medical Library, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, NY

A positive outcome of the challenges of Covid, this volume is jam-packed with practical advice and examples for adding and assessing virtual services. Attuned to both the needs of administrators and practitioners, each thoughtful chapter, by a bevy of excellent writers and thinkers, share tips, frameworks, questions, and also provides additional online content. This is a must-read overview as it touches on virtual services from so many adjacent fields: marketing, human resources, assessment, scholarly communication and openness, sustainability. The definition of virtual services is broad - from twitter to telephone - so there are innovative examples in this volume for every kind of librarian, rural or urban, large hospital to small academic setting. You'll want to keep a copy of this book close at hand; I found myself thinking of colleagues to whom I would refer every chapter. Can people work from home? Should they work from home? Rutgers University librarians Weber and De Fino present evidence that people can and should, arguing that remote and hybrid work schedules are better for employees, libraries, and the environment....Though many recent studies have documented the improved productivity of employees who have chosen to work remotely, libraries were thrown into this largely unexplored realm, most with little or no time to plan as a result of the pandemic. Even were it not for pandemics, unforeseen electrical outages, floods, weather emergencies, earthquakes, terrorism, active shooters, and other unfortunate events require that libraries create emergency plans, taking into account the possibility of short- and long-term closures. Applicable to both public and technical services, this work is required reading for librarians and administrators of all types of libraries. Given its practical strategies and engaging text, this reviewer finds Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook to be an inspiring and a highly recommended reference for health sciences libraries. Highly recommended, Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbookis an excellent resource for health science librarians who desire to enhance and optimally maintain their library's virtual service offerings. There are many thought-provoking ideas and suggestions for creating new services and adapting existing services to maximize virtual engagement with library patrons. This comprehensive handbook will resonate with all health sciences libraries, large and small, urban and rural, after their pandemic pivot to exclusive use of virtual resources and services. The Handbook offers invaluable information on virtual services, including community engagement; empowering and supporting staff; adapting instruction and accessing educational materials for students; and models for research consultations online and virtual systematic review workshops. Highly recommended. Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.

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Amanda R. Scull holds an MLIS from Syracuse University and is the head of Education and Information Services at the Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries, where she has been deeply involved in the transition of both teaching and patron services to the virtual environment during the COVID-19 closure. Prior to Dartmouth, she worked as collection development librarian and information studies faculty librarian at Keene State College.

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