A circulation system uses plastic embossed user cards, an addressograph electric imprinter, a copy of the catalog card as a book card, and a pocket imprinted by the user's card and holding the book card during circulation. (LS)

In the fall of 1969, the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO), with the cooperation of the Medical Library Center of New York, began to plan a cost survey of the operations of the Center. The actual period of the survey is from January to June 1970. The survey provides an estimate of income and expenditures for the…

Presents an overview of the current operation of the AVLINE system, an online data base maintained by the National Library of Medicine containing references to over 5,000 nationally available nonprint materials. (VT)

Describes historical collections of major psychoanalytic libraries--American Psychiatric Association, Boston Psychoanalytic Society, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Insititue of Living, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, Menninger Foundation, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic…

Presents the results of studies conducted at the University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library to evaluate the cost effectiveness of overdue loan procedures and circulation loan period policy. Eight references are listed. (FM)

A noncomputerized study of the journal title usage by the clients of the Extension Division of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Library showed that its validity increased in direct proportion to the number of relevant parameters. Such studies should include both numbers of requesters and numbers of requests. (Author)

The "ARL Annual Salary Survey 2006-07" reports salary data for all professional staff working in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) libraries. It is the most comprehensive and thorough guide to current salaries in large U.S. and Canadian academic and research libraries, and is a valuable management and research tool. Data for 9,824…

Regional Library Services of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Library studied its records of journal use to determine which titles were requested most often, which users requested them, and the recency of the requested articles. (LS)

An overview of information needs and services in the health sciences since 1960, with emphasis on the services of the National Library of Medicine and some other recent government-funded systems for information dissemination. Includes an extensive list of references. (LS)

The next ten years will see an increasing demand for a marriage of information handling, communications technology, learning theory, educational design, and educational technology in order to help the health science community respond to the demand for health services. (Author)

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 computer-produced catalog, "Audiovisual Aids for Health Science Education: a Catalog of Materials at Case Western Reserve University," was developed at Cleveland Health Sciences Library to provide a rapid cataloging system for a newly established audiovisual department. (Author)

Paper presented at the 3rd International Congress of Medical Librarianship, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May, 1969.

A medical library technician is a semiprofessional library employee whose duties require knowledge and skill based on a minimum of two years' general college education that includes library instruction beyond the clerical level. The medical library technician must have a practical knowledge of library functions and services, an understanding of…

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…