Fink W R, Bloomquist H, Allen R G
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1974 Jul;62(3):258-65.
The National Library of Medicine has issued a policy statement outlining expectations of more self-sufficiency at the Basic Unit level than was required during earlier programs under the Medical Library Assistance Act. A consortium of hospital libraries is presented as one viable alternative for meeting NLM's expectations that hospital libraries serve the primary and most immediate information needs of their own constituencies. The Biomedical Communications Network is reviewed so that hospital administrators and librarians will have a more thorough understanding of the system which they should now enter as contributors rather than as recipients only. A Network configuration illustrating the interaction of Basic Units functioning in consortia relationships is presented, and general areas for sharing are discussed.
美国国立医学图书馆发布了一项政策声明，概述了对基层单位比《医学图书馆援助法》早期项目要求更高的自给自足能力的期望。提出了一个医院图书馆联盟，作为满足国立医学图书馆期望的一种可行选择，即医院图书馆满足其自身服务对象的主要和最直接的信息需求。对生物医学通信网络进行了审查，以便医院管理人员和图书馆员能更全面地了解他们现在应以贡献者而非仅作为接受者身份进入的系统。展示了一个说明在联盟关系中运作的基层单位之间相互作用的网络配置，并讨论了共享的一般领域。
