McCarn D B
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1969 Oct;57(4):323-8.
The Biomedical Communications Network (BCN) is the embodiment of the plans of the National Library of Medicine to provide improved information, document, and education services to the health community. The BCN also will be the "core" public service network to ensure the most expeditious delivery of health information and education products to a selected public. As such, utilization of communications satellites as well as other more common forms of telecommunications are planned. The library component of the Network will provide decentralized library services to medical libraries, medical schools, hospitals, MEDLARS Centers, local medical centers and individual medical practitioners. These decentralized services will be provided through an information network with its hub at the Bethesda, Maryland site of the NLM. The NLM intends that the library services network be a controlled rather than a permissive system. This simply implies that participation and access to the services of the system will be determined by the NLM. Planning has already progressed to the point where services to be provided can be enumerated.
生物医学通信网络（BCN）是国立医学图书馆计划的具体体现，该计划旨在为卫生界提供更好的信息、文献和教育服务。BCN还将成为“核心”公共服务网络，以确保向特定公众最迅速地提供健康信息和教育产品。因此，计划利用通信卫星以及其他更常见的电信形式。该网络的图书馆部分将为医学图书馆、医学院校、医院、医学文献分析与检索系统（MEDLARS）中心、当地医疗中心和个体开业医生提供分散式图书馆服务。这些分散式服务将通过一个以国立医学图书馆位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的站点为中心的信息网络来提供。国立医学图书馆希望图书馆服务网络是一个可控而非随意使用的系统。这仅仅意味着系统服务的参与和使用将由国立医学图书馆决定。规划已经进展到可以列举出要提供的服务的阶段。
