Retention List Stories

Story Fourteen: Nursing books were excluded from the list … mostly

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Because the national accreditation board for our Nursing Department has in the past counted against our review if we had out-of-date editions of nursing texts on our shelves, we have chosen to exclude most of our nursing books from the retention list. However, we did keep on the list some titles related to the history of the profession.

Mowbray, Patricia. Florence Nightingale and the Viceroys: A Campaign for the Health of the Indian People. London: Haus, 2008.