Kirkpatrick B A
New York Academy of Medicine, New York 10029.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1989 Jul;77(3):276-83.
A national sample of health sciences and other types of libraries having significant holdings of biomedical literature was studied to determine the status of library preservation programs. Findings pertaining to 134 basic health sciences libraries and to ninety-seven resource libraries in the Regional Medical Library Program network are reported and discussed. Basic health sciences libraries participating in the study were primarily hospital libraries; resource libraries were primarily academic health sciences center libraries. Findings include information on topics perceived to be of greatest need for staff training and for informational or educational materials; on levels of preservation activity, staffing, and funding; and on capabilities for participating in a national cooperative preservation program. Efforts to identify general and special biomedical collections of potential importance to a national preservation program met with limited success.
对拥有大量生物医学文献的健康科学图书馆及其他类型图书馆的全国样本进行了研究，以确定图书馆保存计划的现状。报告并讨论了与134家基础健康科学图书馆以及区域医学图书馆计划网络中的97家资源图书馆相关的研究结果。参与该研究的基础健康科学图书馆主要是医院图书馆；资源图书馆主要是学术健康科学中心图书馆。研究结果包括关于被认为对员工培训以及信息或教育材料最有需求的主题的信息；关于保存活动水平、人员配备和资金的信息；以及关于参与国家合作保存计划的能力的信息。识别对国家保存计划具有潜在重要性的一般和特殊生物医学馆藏的努力取得了有限的成功。
