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- W89813390 abstract "To provide the highest-quality information to library users with health-related queries, consumer health information (CHI) collections in public libraries should be current. As one author notes, “medical information is constantly changing. What was an accepted therapy last month may not be the best therapy this month” [1]. However, efficiencies in CHI collection currency may not be readily apparent to library users; for example, some users may not look at the copyright date and to decide if a title is useable [2].Studies show that consumer health information (CHI) ranks high in topics of interests to the public [3]. People seek consumer health information from various sources and public libraries are an important place for them to get this information [4]. Public libraries have monographic CHI collections available for use by library patrons and also employ rich health-related online resources such as MedlinePlus [5] to provide up-to-date information to such users.The literature shows many library collection evaluation methods, such as checking lists of standard bibliographies and use studies [6]; however, measuring currency is key in the evaluation of CHI collections. Baker and Manbeck asserted that the first purpose for the evaluation of CHI books is to “ensure the library has most up-to-date books on a topic” and that “for medical, nursing, or lay-oriented books dealing with diagnosis, therapies and drugs, the copyright date must not be older than two years” [1]. Beyond this type of broad commentary, the literature seems to be lacking other benchmarks or recommendations for the currency of the CHI collections in public libraries.The age of library collections is influenced by a number of factors including funding, acquisitions policies, and weeding practices. The acquisition of new materials and weeding of older titles can improve the collection currency. Weeding practices in public libraries vary [7], but for each library, the well-planned replacement of library materials can help to improve the currency of collections; the Public Library of Des Moines, for example, reported a median age target of five years and found that this goal required replacing approximately ten per cent of the collection annually [8].The literature shows examining median age of library collections by using the library system's electronic records as one strategy for evaluating collection currency and identifying items for potential weeding or replacement [9]. Truck noted that measuring by median age instead of average age could reduce the influence of older important titles in the collection on the overall age measurement of the collection [8]. This study explored the utility of the median age measurement methodology for evaluating the currency of the CHI monographic collections in a county public library system." @default.
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- W89813390 title "The median age technique for assessing currency of consumer health information monographic collections in public libraries." @default.
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