Dear colleagues

I'm emailing the HLG list to find volunteers to help with the compilation of the Core Collection of Medical Books (CC).  

You may remember that this booklet of recommeded health titles was previously published by the Medical Information Working Party (MIWP).    The MIWP was disbanded at the start of this year but HLG committee agreed to continue with this work as it complements similar work done by Libraries for Nursing (LfN).

Melanie Brocklehurst of London South Bank University and myself are happy to continue with this work, but we want to recruit a broader team in order to ensure that the CC reflects the requirements of all libraries who use clinical information.  We also want to work with HLG members since the newly revised CC will be produced by HLG.

We have spent the first part of the year in consulting with the LfN and RCN team who produced the CC for Nursing and also with the staff of Tomlinsons who coordinated its publictation

Are you willing to participate in the compilation of the 2005 CC?   The new list will have these sections:

Accident & emergency medicine
AIDS & HIV
Alternative medicine
Anaesthesia & intensive care
Anatomy, histology & embryology
Biochemistry & cell biology
Cardiology
Communicable diseases
Communication skills
Community care
Counselling
Dermatology
Diagnosis & clinical methods
Dictionaries & reference
Ear, nose & throat
Endocrinology & diabetes
Epidemiology & statistics
Evidence-based medicine
Forensic medicine
Gastroenterology
General practice
Genetics
Geriatric medicine
Haematology
Health administration
Health care for the elderly
Health promotion
Immunology & allergy
Infertility
Informatics
Medical ethics
Medical writing & research
Medico-legal medicine
Microbiology
Neurology & neurosurgery
Nutritiion & dietetics
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Occupational therapy
Oncology & radiotherapy
Ophthalmology
Oral medicine
Orthopaedics
Paediatrics
Palliative care
Pathology & laboratory medicine
Pharmacology & toxicology
Physiology
Plastic surgery
Psychiatry
Psychology
Public health & social medicine
Radiology & radiography
Respiratory medicine
Rheumatology
Sexually transmitted diseases
Substance abuse
Surgery
Tropical medicine
Urology & nephrology


Once we have a clearer idea of how many people can work on this then I will develop a timetable.  We have agreed with Tomlinsons to have the list ready by March next year.   Tomlinsons will then check the bibliographic details and the in-print status of each title before producing the list for summer 2006.    

I anticipate that we will be able to do most of the initial work by email but, towards the end of this year, we will need to hold meetings for which we wiill be able to pay travel expenses.   They will probably be held in London.

If you have specialist knowledge of an area of clinical medicine  then please let me know in which areas you can help.  If your experience in stock selection is more general,  then your skills will still be valuable to us.   It is difficult to give a precise estimate of the time commitment  but I estimate that each section will take about two to three days to research,  

The MIWP has developed a selection methodology which I can send to interested individuals.

It would help me if you could let me know if you are able to participate in this by the end of Friday 29 July.  If you're not able to make a commitment before this date then please still get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you soon

Best wishes

 
Richard


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Richard M Jones

British Medical Association
Library
Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9JP

tel: 020 7383 6614
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