The Faculty-Librarian Liaison in Collection Development Nursing/Health Sciences Collection Thomas P. O’Neill,Jr. Library Boston College
Founder of Nursing Library 1947 Mary Pekarski founded the School of Nursing Library Collection would include all published materials in nursing
Second Nursing Librarian Anne Lippman continued the development of the Nursing Collection after it moved to the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Library Moved the collection into the electronic age
Collection Development Faculty input Student input Collaboration with Faculty Resource Committee Collaboration with other libraries & librarians
Communication Faculty liaison Newsletter Faculty assembly Departmental meetings One-on-one consultations
Challenges Electronic Journals Nursing Dissertations Archiving Historical Materials Comprehensive Nursing Collection The “Digital Library”