biography

  • Sailaja Tumrukota is the Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarian for the Medical Library. Before joining HWCOM, she worked at the FIU Law Library for almost 20 years.

    She has extensive experience and expertise in both academic research and specialized libraries. Prior to FIU, she worked in various capacities at the University of Miami main and law libraries, and at the St. Thomas University Law Library.

research interests

  • Electronic Resources Management

    Best Practices for building ebook collections - strategies, evaluation of various models offered by publishers, reduction of costs by sharing resources, review and update acquisitions policies, enhancing discovery and promoting ebooks to library users.

full name

  • Sailaja Tumrukota