Gillikin P, Price L, Lee S, Sprinkle M D, Leist J C
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1982 Apr;70(2):216-23.
To meet the informational needs of health care practitioners and trainees in a four-county rural area of northwestern North Carolina, the eleven-member UNIFOUR Consortium was founded as a two-year experimental project from 1978 to 1980. The consortium has several unique features: (1) it is an organization of institutions, not libraries; (2) it employs its own professional librarian who manages a central library, coordinates consortium programs, and makes regular circuit visits to all affiliated institutions; (3) the central library, where the circuit is based, is a developing community hospital library, not an established academic medical center library; and (4) it is ultimately tied to the Northwest Area Health Education Center and that organization's emerging learning resources network, which includes the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Library, two other subregional libraries, and the libraries of all member institutions. At the end of the experimental period in 1980, member institutions voted unanimously to continue the program and assume their share of the costs.
为满足北卡罗来纳州西北部一个四县农村地区医疗保健从业者和学员的信息需求，由11名成员组成的尤尼福四校联盟作为一个为期两年的实验项目于1978年至1980年成立。该联盟有几个独特之处：（1）它是一个机构组织，而非图书馆组织；（2）它雇佣自己的专业图书管理员，该管理员管理中央图书馆、协调联盟项目，并定期巡回访问所有附属机构；（3）作为巡回基地的中央图书馆是一个发展中的社区医院图书馆，而非成熟的学术医学中心图书馆；（4）它最终与西北地区健康教育中心以及该组织新兴的学习资源网络相关联，该网络包括鲍曼·格雷医学院图书馆、另外两个分区图书馆以及所有成员机构的图书馆。1980年实验期结束时，成员机构一致投票决定继续该项目并承担各自的费用份额。
