Medical Library Association 2002 National Meeting, Special Supplement MLA'02 Abstracts, page 20

Research collections in pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics

Claudia Lascar, AHIP assistant professor/reference librarian, and Philip Barnett, Ph.D., associate professor/reference librarian, Science-Engineering Library, City College of City University of New York-New York

Recent advances in pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics challenge librarians to update their collections to fit the expanding needs of practitioners and researchers in this growing and important medical discipline. Analysis of subject coverage reveals the indexing and abstracting services most needed in this discipline, while citation analysis reveals this field’s most relevant journals. With these findings, librarians who need to support this area can optimize their often limited acquisition budgets.

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