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Editorial
. 2024 Sep;41(3):213-215.
doi: 10.1111/hir.12547.

Core collections: Essential titles for health libraries

Lynsey Hawker  1 , Claire Blacklock  2
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Editorial

Core collections: Essential titles for health libraries

Lynsey Hawker et al. Health Info Libr J. 2024 Sep.

Abstract

Core collections have been produced by CILIP's Health Libraries Group, then called the Library Association's Medical Section, since 1952. Maintained by a Working Group of health librarians based in the UK NHS, higher education and specialist libraries, the collections provide an up-to-date curated list of reliable titles essential to health libraries. The core collections currently include nursing, midwifery, medicine and dentistry. The newest core collection is being developed in collaboration with the African Hospital Libraries to provide a list of key resources relevant to sub-Saharan Africa. Expressions of interest to help develop this latest collection are invited.

Keywords: Africa, east; Africa, south; Africa, west; collection development; libraries, health care; libraries, medical; midwifery; nursing.

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