Library Policy Statements

I. PROGRAM INFORMATION

The program, established in 1953, is a division of the College of Allied Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine. The mission of the program is to provide trained personnel for service to the communicatively impaired, and engage in research in the broad area of communication disorders. Instructional and research interests include: speech-language pathology, clinical methodology, audiology, testing of hearing, habilitation and rehabilitation of hearing, speech and hearing science, language development for children with hearing deficiencies, disorders of fluency, and electrophysiologic audiometry.

The department offers the BS and MS in both speech-language pathology and audiology.

II. COORDINATION OF COLLECTION RESPONSIBILITIES

The fields of speech pathology and audiology overlap with other areas in bioscience, especially physiology and medicine.

Publications of the National Institutes of Health and other medically related government documents are available in the Government Documents Collection.

The collections at several of the hospital libraries act as a supplementary resource for the more clinically oriented journals not held by Hamilton Library.

III. GUIDELINES FOR MATERIALS COLLECTED OR EXCLUDED

Language:

English is preferred. The collection contains some material in Western European languages. Asian language material is housed in both the Science and Technology and Asia collections.

Chronological:

No limitations, but the emphasis is on current theories and research.

Geographic:

No Limitations.

Date of Publication:

Current material is most important. Gaps are filled as needed; rare and historical materials may be acquired as gifts.

Type/Format of Materials Collected:

Monographs and serials (electronic access, if available) on current research in the field; upper level texts; government publications; conference proceedings; selected United States and foreign dissertations; indexes, abstracts, and bibliographies (paper/electronic); and handbooks and dictionaries.

Treatment:

Historical; primary sources and documents; applications, methods and practices; computer-related; equipment used in research; biographical; reference and bibliographical; statistical and mathematical.

Date complied: 7/01 Compiler: Paul Wermager