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The Accidental Academic Library: Meeting The Needs Of A Health System–Affiliated University, Heather Martin
The Accidental Academic Library: Meeting The Needs Of A Health System–Affiliated University, Heather Martin
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Background: In 2017 a small liberal arts college affiliated with a large western health system was re-branded, and a School of Health Professions was created to prepare for future staffing shortages and to train the next generation of healthcare workers. Instead of relying solely upon its own library, University administration reached out to the health system library to meet the information needs of this new group of students, most of whom were active employees of the healthcare enterprise. Thus, a group of hospital librarians found themselves as accidental academic librarians.
Description: Library leadership researched academic library bench-marking to propose a …