(reposted from Medlib)
Doody Enterprises is seeking qualified collection development specialists OR subject specialists from the medical library community to serve as final selectors for Doody's Core Titles 2006, the third edition of this collection development tool. These individuals will work collaboratively with the publisher's editorial staff and with up to two other librarians to make core title selections in their specialty areas. The work will take place between March 24 and April 21, 2006.

Specifics of the work flow are as follows:
1. Librarian selectors will be working with an initial list of content specialist-selected core titles in each specialty for which they will be selecting and scoring titles.
2. Librarian selectors will be able to add titles to the list provided by the content specialist and then will be asked to score five characteristics of each core title on a 3-point scale. Finally, each librarian will select what they would consider the "Essential Purchase" titles for a small library.
3. The entire selection and scoring process will done online in a user-friendly system designed by Doody Enterprises staff exclusively for the purpose of getting expert input from library selectors in an extremely time-efficient manner.
4. Library selectors will be acknowledged as members of the Editorial Board of Doody's Core Titles.

Doody's Core Titles 2006, featuring core title selections in 121 basic, clinical, nursing and allied health specialties, will be published on May 12, 2006.

If you are interested in participating as a librarian selector, please contact Anne Hennessy, Editor-in-Chief at Doody Enterprises (anne@doody.com) and indicate in which specialty(ies) you are qualified to select core titles.