ALA Guide to Medical & Health Sciences Reference

The ALA Guide to Medical & Health Sciences Reference 2011 is a compact paperback spin‐off from the ALA's online Guide to Reference (www.guidetoreference.org), which in turn is a successor to the print Guide to Reference Books. This is the second of this new ALA series of guides to be reviewed in these columns following the ALA Guide to Sociology & Psychology Reference (RR 2011/260).

An almost unavoidable drawback of such useful bibliographic tools is that currency slips almost as soon as they are published. This print version has 1,587 entries and as the editor reveals in her guide...