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Peer reviewedHendricks, Donald D. – Library Trends, 1975
Recounts the difficulties of bringing together state and regional programs in a nationwide system. (Author)
Descriptors: Communications, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Peer reviewedKeast, 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
Peer reviewedMcGrath, 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
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
Four papers on biological and medical sciences libraries were presented at the 1986 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference. "Activities and Services of Medical Libraries in Japan--Past, Present, and Future" (Kazuo Urata and Toshinobu Suga, Japan) discusses the inauguration of the Japan Medical Library…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Library Associations
Download full textBowden, Virginia M.; And Others – 1985
The results of a project comparing the nursing monograph collections of academic health science center libraries in the Southwest are reported. Records for nursing monographs from the TALON (South Central Regional Medical Library Program) Union Catalog of Monographs from 1977-1983 were analyzed to reveal the distribution by year, publisher, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Olson, Paul E.; Pletzke, Chester J. – 1975
A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog (MMUC) of books, conducted from June, 1973, through May, 1975, under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49-year-old catalog in the context of the interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. The study tested…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Dissemination, Interlibrary Loans
Jensen, Marilyn Anne, Ed. – 1981
Speeches and summaries of group discussions from California's first statewide conference on health science library consortia are presented. An introduction outlining regional, state, and national cooperation among biomedical libraries and brief welcoming addresses precede three talks on the history and development in California of library…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Consortia, Contracts
Dorst, Thomas J., Ed. – Illinois Libraries, 1989
Twelve articles focusing on the issue of cooperative collection management describe the history and current status of specific projects within the Illinois Library and Information Network. The last article summarizes the status of coordinated cooperative collection management in Illinois, clarifies terminology, and speculates on future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Advisory Committees, Community Services, Coordination
