Managing Public Access Microcomputers in Health Sciences Libraries - Softcover

Gale G. Hannigan; Janis F. Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810824361 ISBN 13: 9780810824362

Publisher: Scarecrow Press (UK), 1995

Synopsis

This is a step-by-step guide to planning, installing, managing, and marketing microcomputer services. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic: funding, planning facilities, equipment and peripherals, local area networks, software collections, user services, support personnel, and administrative issues. Written not only for health information professionals, but for all information professionals who manage public access microcomputers or who are planning future facilities.

About this title

About the Author

Gale G. Hannigan is the manager for education and information services at the Medical Sciences Library, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX. She has developed and coordinated information services facilities and programs at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI; the Learning Resources Center, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and the Houston Academy of Medicine―Texas Medical Library Center, Houston. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and the Medical Library Association.

Janis F. Brown is the Associate Director for Educational Resources at the Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She developed the public access microcomputer facilities at the Norris Medical Library and continues to manage their day-to-day operations and further development. She has also worked at the library's Learning Resources Center Coordinator and is a member of ALA, the Health Sciences Communications Association, and MLA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press (UK)
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810824361
• ISBN 13: 9780810824362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172