Development of a post-master's online certificate in health sciences librarianship.

Health sciences librarians function in environments that are constantly undergoing rapid and drastic changes in a range of divergent arenas, including scientific, technological, social, political, and financial changes. To keep up with these changes, health sciences librarians require lifelong learning opportunities. The Medical Library Association (MLA) recommends that library educators provide opportunities and programs to meet the librarians’ need to ‘‘retool their skills’’ throughout their professional careers [1]. In this brief communication, the authors describe the process of developing and implementing an online, fifteen-credit, post-master’s certificate of advanced study in health sciences librarianship (HealthCAS) and the steps we followed during this process.