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 reference for health sciences libraries. * Journal of the Medical Library Association * This comprehensive handbook will resonate with all health sciences libraries, large and small, urban and rural, after their pandemic pivot to exclusive use of virtual resources and services. The Handbook offers invaluable information on virtual services, including community engagement; empowering and supporting staff; adapting instruction and accessing educational materials for students; and models for research consultations online and virtual systematic review workshops. Highly recommended. -- Claire B. Joseph, MS, MA, AHIP, Director, Singh Medical Library, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, NY A positive outcome of the challenges of Covid, this volume is jam-packed with practical advice and examples for adding and assessing virtual services. Attuned to both the needs of administrators and practitioners, each thoughtful chapter, by a bevy of excellent writers and thinkers, share tips, frameworks, questions, and also provides additional online content. This is a must-read overview as it touches on virtual services from so many adjacent fields: marketing, human resources, assessment, scholarly communication and openness, sustainability. The definition of virtual services is broad from twitter to telephone so there are innovative examples in this volume for every kind of librarian, rural or urban, large hospital to small academic setting. Youll want to keep a copy of this book close at hand; I found myself thinking of colleagues to whom I would refer every chapter. -- Holly Grossetta Nardini, Associate Director, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, Medical Library Associations 2018 Academic Medical Librarian of the Year Highly recommended, Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbookis an excellent resource for health science librarians who desire to enhance and optimally maintain their librarys virtual service offerings. There are many thought-provoking ideas and suggestions for creating new services and adapting existing services to maximize virtual engagement with library patrons. * Medical Reference Services Quarterly * Amanda R. Scull, editor and contributor to the slim but impactful Virtual Services in the Health Sciences Library: A Handbook, has compiled ten chapters that offer insights into how staff at various health sciences libraries not only quickly adapted and pivoted their services during the emergency stages of the pandemic but how they have continued to build upon and utilize virtual services to engage users, build community, and strengthen their assessment processes and instruction as they have transitioned into the new normal. * E-Resources Reviews * This book offers technical services professionals practical ideas on how to plan for, transition to, sustain, and (if necessary) roll back remote operations. While written from the perspective of an academic library, much of the authors guidance in ensuring the physical and emotional wellbeing of employees is applicable to all types of technical services and library operations. Readers will also find some useful justifications to help push for more remote work options in technical services. * Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship *
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