Standards for hospital libraries 2002 with 2004 revisions
Robin Ackley Hassig, Leeni Balogh, Margaret Bandy, Jacqueline Donaldson Doyle, Jeannine Cyr Gluck, Katherine Lois Lindner, Barbara Reich, and Douglas Varner
J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 April; 93(2): 282–283.

The complete “Standards for Hospital Libraries 2002 with 2004 Revisions” on the Hospital Libraries Section Website http://hls.mlanet.org/

It is a small 2 page article. There were some changes to the 2002 Standards bibliography, latest edition of the (JCAHO) Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals, the MLA policy statement on expert searching, and new web addresses. The biggest change in the standards is that Standard 6 has been expanded to include a definition of appropriate resources, technologies, and services available in a hospital library.

Standard 6: "The librarian provides evidence of an ongoing assessment of the knowledge-based information needs of the organization and the development and implementation of a plan to provide appropriate resources, services, and technology to meet those identified needs."

Standard 6 does mention using the Brandon/Hill selected lists for collection development.

"Examples include MLA's benchmarking survey, the “Brandon/Hill Selected List of Print Books and Journals for the Small Medical Library,” and other recognized resource guides for health sciences specialties"

We all know that the Brandon Hill lists are no longer being continued. The standards committee decided to currently retain that reference, but they will evaluate its usefulness in later standards revisions.

Personally I feel the committee should have eliminated the Brandon Hill lists reference completely. After all the phrase, "other recognized resource guides for health sciences specialties," covers any other new lists that might emerge, like Doody’s Core Titles in the Health Sciences. I feel continuing to mention the Brandon Hill lists is a more of disservice to the standard.