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Cramer, Anne – 1972
Regardless of the size of the hospital, the librarian must acquire information for staff members by whatever means possible. Large hospitals with large staff, more information requests per week, and a better economic base will purchase a greater number of information materials. Small hospitals will purchase only the most basic reference books and…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Librarians, Library Acquisition, Library Material Selection
Peer reviewedStill, Julie; Campbell, Frank – RSR Reference Services Review, 1993
Discusses the use of electronic mail for reference services and investigates systems in health sciences libraries and in academic libraries. The use of electronic mail for services including interlibrary loan, online search requests, literature searches, photocopies or other document delivery, reference questions, and purchase requests is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Mail, Higher Education, Interlibrary Loans
Shelley, Patricia A. – 1991
Arguing that recommended lists for hospital libraries are too general, this use study evaluated the journal collection of a small hospital library. It is noted that the literature on use studies indicates that, with the availability of resources through computer searches, interlibrary loans, consortiums and networks, journal evaluation is no…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citation Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Interlibrary Loans
PDF pending restorationMaguire, Carmel; Lovelace, Eugenia – 1975
Approximately 300 Australian users and non-users of the biomedical computerized data base, MEDLARS, were surveyed by mailed questionnaire in an attempt to determine the needs of present and potential users of the system and their prior experiences with computerized as well as other information services. Results of the survey reveal: (1) an…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
