State-wide cost recovery for health science audiovisual loan service in Connecticut.

The University of Connecticut Health Center Library has established a successful state-wide cost recovery audiovisual loan service for nurses. Limiting formats to those compatible with the audiovisual playback equipment at the source library and federal support for collection development helped the program to succeed. Connecticut nurses used the service both during the grant period and when a fee-for-service replaced the federal subsidy. The library's collection is now accessed by institutions without libraries.