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Susan Kendall, PhD, MS(LIS)

Health Sciences Coordinator,
Biology Librarian

Michigan State University Libraries
East Lansing, MI 48824

Telephone:517-884-0902
Email: skendall@msu.edu


Contact me regarding:

  • health sciences at the MSU Libraries
  • biological sciences at the MSU Libraries
  • library purchases--journals, databases, books
  • teaching groups/classes to use library resources


Selected Publications:

Book: Kendall, Susan K., Ed  (2018).  Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield

Kendall SK (2018).  Discovery of the health sciences collection.  In:  Kendall, Susan K., Ed.  Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, p. 173-191.

Kendall SK (2018).  The future of health sciences collection management.  In:  Kendall, Susan K., Ed  (2018).  Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century.  New York:  Rowman & Littlefield, p. 249-267.

Kendall, SK.  (2017)  Featured Article:  Lessons Learned Training New Health Sciences Librarians in Collection ManagementDoody’s Review Service April 2017 issue. 

Kendall, SK and Monosoff-Richards, M.  (2015)  Training a new librarian in the what, how, where, and why of health sciences collections managementProceedings of the Charleston Library Conference.  DOI:  10.5703/1288284316246

Kendall, SK (2014).  Basic biomedical scientists: the rediscovered library usersAgainst the Grain 26(2):  34-36

Kendall, SK (2012)  Strategies of health sciences librarians working without a traditional health sciences libraryJournal of Hospital Librarianship 12(4):  363-371. postprint pdf

I coordinate health sciences collections and service at the MSU Libraries and am the biological sciences librarian.

MSU Health Sciences Digital Library

I am library liaison to MSU Departments of:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Entomology
Integrative Biology
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Physiology

and interdisciplinary programs:

Biological Sciences
Cell and Molecular Biology
Genetics
Human Biology
Neuroscience

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