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Malin, Joyce E.; Pings, Vern M. – 1968
This report covers the availability of library service to osteopathic physicians of Detroit and the surrounding area. The appointments of 813 osteopathic physicians were identified from the staff lists of 16 hospitals in southeastern Michigan. A staff physician was identified as having library service if the hospital in which he has an appointment…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Information Needs, Interlibrary Loans, Library Services
Smith, Joan M. B. – 1970
In an attempt to break down interinstitutional isolation, a group of biomedical librarians developed an interlibrary loan agreement with the specific goal of promoting better access to biomedical information for health care workers in the Metropolitan Detroit area. This is a report on the development of that agreement, which includes the…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Institutional Cooperation, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation

Pings, Vern M. – Library Trends, 1974
A discussion of the information needs of health professionals, the regional libraries organized to serve them, and some document delivery services of the Regional Medical Libraries Program. (LS)
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks
Nelson Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1968
This report describes NYSILL, a project undertaken to expand interlibrary loan service to New York's public and private libraries. Contracts were made with 3 major public libraries as "area referral libraries" and 9 private libraries as "subject referral libraries" to aid the State Library in filling its interlibrary loan…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries, Library Cooperation
Vermont Library Association, Burlington. – 1977
This directory is designed primarily as a practical reference tool to disseminate the interlibrary loan (ILL) policies of college and special libraries in Vermont. Directory information was based on a questionnaire which was sent to 86 college and special libraries. Replies were received from 49 of these institutions and these individual policy…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Directories, Interlibrary Loans, Libraries
Kentucky, OH, Michigan Regional Medical Library, Detroit, MI. – 1970
The Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan Regional Medical Library (KOMRML), a service organization made up of the libraries of ten academic institutions, has within a year created an identifiable organization. A questionnarie was sent to 440 participants in this organization to determine: (1) if it was one that was causing constructive changes, and (2) if the…
Descriptors: Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Services
Pings, Vern M. – 1968
This interlibrary loan study was done in 16 health care institutions during two weeks in November, 1967 and two weeks in March, 1968. Each interlibrary loan requester was asked to record what position he held (attending staff, resident, intern, other staff), and whether his request was related to patient care, teaching, continuing education, or…
Descriptors: Health Facilities, Health Personnel, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks
Craig, Barbara – 1968
This study was conducted to determine to what degree medical literature is accessible and available to physicians in Essex County (Ontario). There are no medical schools in Essex County and the biomedical collections maintained by the six hospitals in the County and the Essex County Medical Association represent the only access in the County to…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collections, Library Services
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
Oppenheimer, Gerald J., Ed. – 1967
This working conference was planned by the library profession and the medical profession in an effort to coordinate efforts of the users and distributors of medical information in the Pacific Northwest. Participants included representatives from the state medical societies and the state libraries, the two medical schools, and health related…
Descriptors: Conferences, Information Centers, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation
Monroe, Elizabeth Jean; Pings, Vern M. – 1969
The first step in the services to be developed by the Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan Regional Medical Library (KOMRML), established under the Medical Library Assistance Act of 1965, is that of improving the document delivery service now provided by the 10 biomedical resource libraries which make up KOMRML. The study reported here was undertaken to…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collections

Keast, Don; Hooke, Julie – Australian Library Journal, 1985
Describes the growth, rationale, and operation of a no-charge cooperative formed in 1982 by group of small Australian health science libraries to combat rising costs of interlibrary loans (GRATIS), and its South Australian equivalent (GRATISSA). Membership, coverage, features, problems, applications, and future developments are noted. Nine…
Descriptors: Costs, Foreign Countries, Hospital Libraries, Interlibrary Loans
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Library Development. – 1989
A task force was appointed to insure that New York State's health information service programs were operating optimally. The task force was charged to review: (1) the effectiveness of the guidelines and assessment form as published in the "Manual for Assessing the Quality of Health Sciences Libraries in Hospitals"; (2) the present…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks, Library Services

McGrath, William E.; Dyson, Sam – RQ, 1974
The Louisiana Numerical Register is a union catalog of 550,000 titles, arranged by LC card number, in seventeen academic libraries, two medical libraries, the Louisiana State Library, and the New Orleans Public Library. Its costs and use as an interlibrary loan finding tool are evaluated. (LS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Services
TEDESCO, CLAIRE R. – 1967
THESE PROCEEDINGS CONSIST OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE MEETING, GROUPED INTO TWO SUBJECT AREAS--THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION LIBRARY PROGRAM AND THE REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. THE IDEA OF THE SUCCESSFUL MEDICAL LIBRARY AS A PHYSICIAN'S LABORATORY IS EXPLORED, REFERRING TO VA HOSPITAL LIBRARIES. A DESCRIPTION OF THE…
Descriptors: Automation, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Library Associations