Collection Development Statement
Last updated July 2024
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Last updated July 2024
This collection supports research and teaching that deals broadly with the brain. The Homewood academic departments and programs focus on research and research methodologies, not clinical practice.
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Department of Cognitive Science
Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience
Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
All units are part of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. The undergraduate major and minor in linguistics are provided by Cognitive Science. The Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience has a BS and a BS/MS program and is divided into four areas including cellular and molecular, cognitive, computational or and systems neuroscience.
Subjects covered include: developmental psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive science, learning, memory, perception and senses, aging, brain science, animal behavior, and other psychological topics. Computational methodologies including brain imaging and eye tracking are used, with the needed visualization and statistical methods.
Clinical care is not the focus of these departments and programs; those efforts take place on the medical campus and are supported by the Welch Medical Library. It should also be noted that the MS programs in Clinical Mental Health and School Counseling are through the School of Education (SOE) thus collection development for counseling will be addressed in the SOE Collection Development Statement.
There is a strong preference for online resources.
Preferred formats
Material acquired by request or selectively
Material not collected
Scientific material is primarily in English. The linguistics faculty require linguistics research about many languages, as well as research in a number of languages, primarily European languages.
Emphasis is on current and recent scholarship.
Joanne Helouvry
Librarian for Psychology and Education
410-516-2461
jhelouvry@jhu.edu