Photocopying and other topics are presented in Vols. 1 and 2 of the transcript of the Ninth Commission Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia in 1976. Topics in Vol. 1 include: (1) implications for the commission's work of the final provisions of the copyright bill; (2) study of a national periodical bank(s) for the U.S.; (3) the provision of…

A brief visit to several Japanese medical libraries and information centers revealed similarities and dissimilarities with their United States counterparts. All the institutions had indexes, many English language journals, and photocopying requests. Differences appeared in the reference services provided. The information centers were computer…

A periodicals use study was conducted in the Medical Library of Children's Hospital, a pediatric teaching hospital, during the six month period from September 1, 1967 to February 29, 1968. Results of the study showed that the three kinds of periodical use--circulation, reading room use, and interlibrary loan--have similar but not identical…

During 1970 it became increasingly clear that with limited funds from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), some mechanism would have to be found to control the ever-increasing interlibrary loan (ILL) workload of the Kentucky-Ohio-Michigan Regional Medical Library (KOMRML). It was obvious that NLM could not completely support the document…

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…

A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog 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 interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. (Author)

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…

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)

Recounts the difficulties of bringing together state and regional programs in a nationwide system. (Author)

Intended to facilitate cooperation among all types of libraries and to assist the medical and health sciences communities, this directory lists 152 medical libraries in New York State: hospital, industrial, medical research, schools of medicine, and schools of nursing, optometry, and pharmacy. Most of the libraries are open to research by…

A first attempt to codify interlibrary loan patterns in Wisconsin, these guidelines are the result of an eight month study by a committee representing all types of libraries and geographic areas of the state. An introduction outlines and comments on interlibrary loan responsibilities, operating assumptions, principles, and goals. Comments on a…

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…

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…

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…

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…