The Faculty-Librarian Liaisonin Collection Development

Nursing/Health Sciences Collection

Thomas P. O’Neill,Jr. Library

Boston College

Founder of Nursing Library 1947

• Mary Pekarski founded the School of Nursing Library

• Collection would include all published materials in nursing

Second Nursing Librarian

• Anne Lippman continued the development of the Nursing Collection after it moved to the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Library

• Moved the collection into the electronic age

Collection Development

• Faculty input

• Student input

• Collaboration with Faculty Resource Committee

• Collaboration with other libraries & librarians

Communication

• Faculty liaison

• E-mail

• Newsletter

• Faculty assembly

• Departmental meetings

• One-on-one consultations

Challenges

• Electronic Journals

• Nursing Dissertations

• Archiving Historical Materials

• Comprehensive Nursing Collection

• The “Digital Library”