Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook

Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook

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Health sciences libraries serving universities and medical facilities have long used technology to provide library services, but COVID-19 presented libraries with unique challenges.Libraries shut their doors and adapted to conducting reference, instruction, and outreach, remotely.For some libraries described in Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook, those services had been done in the library; for others, Flat Dish the library had considered adding virtual services.

For those libraries that have not made the jump, this text presents strategies to which all health sciences libraries would find a useful reference.Given its practical strategies and engaging text, this reviewer finds Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: a Handbook to be an inspiring and a highly recommended Toner reference for health sciences libraries.