title: Brandon/Hill selected list of books and journals for the small medical library.
abstract: The interrelationship of print and electronic media in the hospital library and its relevance to the "Brandon/Hill Selected List" in 1999 are addressed in the updated list (eighteenth version) of 627 books and 145 journals. This list is intended as a selection guide for the small or medium-size library in a hospital or similar facility. More realistically, it can function as a core collection for a library consortium. Books and journals are categorized by subject; the book list is followed by an author/editor index, and the subject list of journals by an alphabetical title listing. Due to continuing requests from librarians, a "minimal core" book collection consisting of 82 titles has been pulled out from the 214 asterisked (*) initial-purchase books and marked with daggers ([symbol: see text]). To purchase the entire collection of books and to pay for 1999 journal subscriptions would require $114,900. The cost of only the asterisked items, books and journals, totals $49,100. The "minimal core" book collection costs $13,200.
authors.affiliation: Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, New York 10029-6574, USA.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D001874:Book Selection; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000191:economics; D016243:Library Collection Development / Q000191:economics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000191:economics