Sponsored Post: Rittenhouse

FHSLA is proud to present a blog post by Rittenhouse- Diamond Sponsor of the FHSLA annual  meeting.

Overcoming the Challenges of Healthcare Trends on the Library

Is your library and hospital working through the challenges of one or more of the current healthcare trends? Rittenhouse strives to provide solutions to meet the ever-changing collection management challenges due to ensuring healthcare equity, burnout among health professionals, streamlining operations, and continuation of providing telehealth options for patients. We surveyed our librarian partners for a better understand of the biggest challenges faced today with collection management. We found that those challenges include declining budgets, loss of library space, transiting from print to electronic resources, and reduction in staff.

Rittenhouse offers a variety of free programs, tools, and services to help librarians overcome these challenges while supporting the needs of their patrons.

Limited staff and budget?
There are several ways to start or enhance your digital health sciences collection, review usage statistics, and purchase only resources that you know your patrons need.
        1. Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) Program—try our fully mediated program. Provide free, immediate access to thousands of eBooks.
        2. Open Educational Resources—the R2 Digital Library offers a catalogue of more than 50 free resources including—The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Fast Facts, Environmental Health in Nursing, and much more!
        3. Free Trial—New to R2? Start a free trial and discover the health sciences eBooks that would gain solid usage in your digital collection. Access is immediate, and usage statistics are available for your reference.

Shifting from print to electronic resources?

The R2 Digital Library has thousands of life and health sciences eBooks available, and Rittenhouse has the service to help support your library’s print-to-e migration. Take advantage of our Core Collection Update service—send us your shelf list in an Excel format, and we’ll return a quote for matched eBooks that are active on the R2 Digital Library. The service is free, and you can select the titles that you would like to purchase.

Need help getting started?

There are a variety of collection management tools to help enhance or start your R2 Digital Library collection. Rittenhouse makes the following resources available to serve as guide to selecting the right content for your digital collection—Doody’s Core Titles, Doody’s Special Topics Lists, and Special Collections focused on various subjects and disciplines.
The seasoned sales team and customer service department at Rittenhouse are available to help you start a trial, a PDA collection, or to assist with your print-to-e transition. To learn more, visit R2library.com or email customerservice@r2library.com.
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