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Guidelines for Biomedical Engineering and Industrial Hygiene

1. Purpose
2. General Collection Guidelines
    A. Language
    B. Chronology
    C. Geography
    D. Publication Date
    E. Treatment of Subject
    F. Types of Materials and Formats
3. Area Resources
4. Subjects and Collecting Levels
5. Methodology

1. Purpose.

The biomedical engineering collection supports the M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Industrial Hygiene as well as combined M.S./Ph.D. and M.D. or D.D.S. degree programs offered by the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Basic Health Sciences. Principal research interests of the programs in biomedical engineering and industrial hygiene are cardiopulmonary responses to exercise, biomedical instrumentation, signal processing, retinal injury due to low level noninonizing sources, orthopedic and structural biomechanics, biomaterials and biocompatibility, cardiovascular hemodynamics, noninvasive diagnostics, mathematical modeling, biological monitoring, dermal absorption of toxicants, occupational and environmental health, radiation biology, safety evaluation for pesticides, trace-metal metabolism, and water contaminants. The collection also supports a high level of student and faculty research in physiology, anatomy, biostatistics, computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, rehabilitation medicine, surgery, dentistry, neurology, and sports medicine.

2. General Collection Guidelines.

A. Language.
English is the primary language for the monographic and serial collections. Foreign language and multilingual monographs and serials are purchased selectively.

B. Chronology.
Inapplicable.

C. Geography.
Inapplicable.

D. Publication Date.
Emphasis is on current imprints. Retrospective materials are acquired selectively, usually at faculty request.

E. Treatment of Subject.
Primary emphasis is on graduate and professional texts and journals reporting current research and research methods.

F. Types of Materials and Formats.
Monographs and periodicals are the principal formats. Indexes, abstracts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, bibliographies, data tables and charts, atlases, as well as conference proceedings and symposia are also collected. Acquisition of serials takes precedence over that of monographs. Audio-visual materials, principally videotapes, slides, and slide-audio tapes, are also collected and housed in the Learning Resource Centers.

3. Area Resources.

There are no comparable resources in the area.

4. Subjects and Collecting Levels.

Subject	Call Number Range	Present	Desired
Instruments and Machines. Electronic Computers	QA71-99	C1	C1
Physics	QC1-798.A1Z	C1	C1
Chemistry	QD1-999	B	B
Human Anatomy	QM1-691	B	B
Physiology. Human Physiology	QP1-348	B	B
Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology	QP351-495	B	B
Animal Biochemistry	QP501-801	B	B
Medicine (General)	R850.A1A-855	B	B
Computer Applications to Medicine	R856-920	B	B
Public Health. Preventive Medicine	RA421-564.9	B	B
Environmental Health	RA656-600	B	B
Epidemiology	RA648.5-653	B	B
Waste Control. Waste Disposal	RA969.45	B	B
Toxicology. Industrial Toxicology	RA1190-1270	B	B
Pathology	RB1-214	B	B
Internal Medicine. Diagnosis	RC71.A1-82	B	B
Diseases Due to Physical and Chemical Agents. Radioactive Substances	RC91-105	B	B
Industrial Medicine. Occupational Diseases and Hazards. Industrial Hygiene	RC963-969	B	B
Surgery	RD1-688	B	B
Orthopedia	RD701-811	B	B
Dentistry	RK1-715	B	B
Air Pollution	TD881-898	B	B
Heating and Ventilation	TH7005-7699	C1	C1
Steam Engineering	TJ268-280.5	C1	C1

5. Methodology.

Primary sources for assessment:

Books for College Libraries.

Haselbauer, Kathleen. A Research Guide to the Health Sciences. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.