Building a retrospective collection in pharmacy: a brief history of the literature with some considerations for U.S. health sciences library professionals

This paper argues that historical works in pharmacy are important tools for the clinician as well as the historian. With this as its operative premise, delineating the tripartite aspects of pharmacy as a business enterprise, a science, and a profession provides a conceptual framework for primary and secondary resource collecting. A brief history and guide to those materials most essential to a historical collection in pharmacy follows. Issues such as availability and cost are discussed and summarized in checklist form. In addition, a glossary of important terms is provided as well as a list of all the major U.S. dispensatories and their various editions. This paper is intended to serve as a resource for those interested in collecting historical materials in pharmacy and pharmaco-therapeutics as well as provide a history that gives context to these classics in the field. This should provide a rationale for selective retrospective collection development in pharmacy.

Health sciences libraries in Kuwait: a study of their resources, facilities, and services

The purpose of this study was to examine the current status of health sciences libraries in Kuwait in terms of their staff, collections, facilities, use of information technology, information services, and cooperation. Seventeen libraries participated in the study. Results show that the majority of health sciences libraries were established during the 1980s. Their collections are relatively small. The majority of their staff is nonprofessional. The majority of libraries provide only basic information services. Cooperation among libraries is limited. Survey results also indicate that a significant number of health sciences libraries are not automated. Some recommendations for the improvement of existing resources, facilities, and services are made.

Monograph use at an academic health sciences library: the first three years of shelf life

Objective: To study the circulation of monographs during the first three years of shelf life at an academic health sciences library.

Las Casas as a bishop : a new interpretation based on his holograph petition in the Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American manuscripts = Las Casas, obispo : una nueva interpretación basada en su petición autógrafa conservada en la Colección Hans P. Kraus de manuscritos hispanoamericanos /

Includes indexes.

The Hispanic American historical review.

Includes "Bibliographical section".

International comparison of resource allocation in health sciences : an analysis of expenditures on biomedical research in 19 industrialized countries /

Item 507

The control of communicable diseases. : Report of a committee of the American public health association.

Reprint no. 1697 from the Public Health reports (revised 1945).

Our Nation on the fault line : Hispanic American education /

"September 1996"--Cover.

Semiconductor detectors in medicine, March 8-9, 1973, presented by Nuclear Medicine Division, Department of Radiology, University of California School of Medicine and Continuing Education in Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, supported in part by KeVex Corporation, Burlingame, California [et al.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Subcommittee on Library Coöperation with Latin America; with a description of the material illustrative of Hispanic-American periodicals exhibited at the Swampscott Conference.

Mode of access: Internet.

Guidelines for the control of rabies : presented at the 97th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 10-14, 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania /

Mode of access: Internet.

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hʹebert School of Medicine.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Mode of access: Internet.

American studies in Europe; their history and present organization.

Bibliography: p. [660]-668.