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Multimedia Resources
Collection Development Policy
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DATE: October
9, 2001
Collection Development
Policy
When considering materials for our Centre, the following
general guidelines are followed:
- Materials should support the goals of the
Centre (increase knowledge of patients and the public regarding
health, prevention, treatment,
end-of-life
care etc.)
- Materials are evaluated for their accuracy and currency of information.
(Qualifications of the authors, reviews from other professional organizations,
date of publication, etc.)
- Availability of the material from other sources (i.e. public libraries),
number of other materials in the collection on the same subject, are
also taken into account.
- Materials are considered for their quality and appropriateness
- Titles should have a consumer orientation. A few exceptions: a CPS,
a Medical dictionary
Donated items must meet above criteria.
Building a dynamic collection is an active process designed to meet
the ever-changing
information needs of our users, in this case patients, family members,
and the general
public.
We look for subject content that supports areas of high use ( i.e.
the top ten diagnoses at Trillium ) as well as materials that fill
gaps in
the collection or that address information in a new or beneficial way
(Alternative Medicine).
In addition, we support: - all the
patient education programs our hospital provides: e.g.
diabetes education, nutritional counseling, cardiac rehabilitation
- outpatient clinics, e.g. Incontinence clinic, Eye clinic,
Hand clinic, Child & Adolescent Mental
Health, Community Mental Health.
- support group meetings that occur within our hospital: e.g. Mississauga
Brain Tumor Support Group
Criteria for
Selection
The general criteria for the selection
of these sites are listed on MLANET at http://mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/topten.html .
Those criteria include: "credibility, sponsorship/authorship,
content, audience, currency,
disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers."
Some of the issues regarding collection
development in the area of consumer health are:
- Finding consumer-oriented
resources/ titles in a variety of subject areas.
- Vigilantly weeding health resources/ titles
- Finding the balance between acquiring "popular", "trendy" titles
or subject areas and acquiring health books based on scientific
evidence.
- Finding reliable reviews on consumer health resources
- Developing collection development policies regarding health issues.
Considerations are:
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