Summary of statistical data obtained on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries from fifty university libraries, for purposes of comparison, since there is currently no code of standards for university libraries. (JS)

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…

Discussed in this manual for the inexperienced librarian in a small hospital library are: organization and administration; book selection and ordering; cataloging and catalog cards; classification; labeling of books; selecting and processing journals; interlibrary loans; reference services; and circulation. A suggested basic starter collection of…

The minimum requirement for a hospital medical library is that it provide the books, journals and other materials necessary to serve the immediate information needs of the professional staff and to support the programs undertaken by the hospital. Since it is impossible for any library to have all the materials that might be requested by the…

To aid in controlling the cost of acquisitions in a research library, techniques were developed for the rational selection of serial titles for cancellation. The context for the proposed methodology was a network or multicampus environment rather than an individual library, and it was tested with a specific body of health sciences serial titles in…