ay m the Medical Libra ¥ Association Archives, Exc ange Committee records, in the History o Medicine Division, Na onal Library of Me c OT E: THIS ATERIAL AY BE PROTECTED B u t A Arct Ss, t Co 2 ‘ SPY nic SLAW y ‘ y Vv n, ib y dicine. N ICE: M MAY Y a - February 1969 oe vec LIBRARY ACTIVITIES OF REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS “rom the Medical Library Association Archives, Exchange Committee records, in the History of Medic COPYRIGHT LAW (TITLE 17 U.S ine Division, National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: THIS MATERIAL MAY BE PROTECTED BY - CODE). 4° “1969 YC ® February Pretace This report was Degun at an information exchange breakfast meeting during the Medical Library Association Convencion in Denver in June 1968. Prior to that meeting lett tot Regional Medical Progran Coordinators as i the person handling library matters int lezter was sent to the designated library representatives inviting them to attend the breaxtast ting to exchange information on Regional Medical Program iib people responded to the invitation, ople, representing 35 Regions, attended the breakiast le Brodman, Chairman, Library ns The meeting was hosted dy Dr. Esteal Sub-Committee of the Bi-State Regional Medical Program and Miss Alee Schneider. The attendees were asxed to briefly summarize library activities planned or operational uncer their Regional Medical Progra. The meeting comments were taped, and subsequently transcribed and then sent to the participants for tneir editing, approval, updating, and additional comments. aA ai rep to the Executive Councii of end of the Convention. in December to Coordinators of all Regions from whom replies nhac not been received at that time. Some telephone follow-up was also necessary to those who had not returned their edited comments. The first set of reports from the meeting participants, along with the replies to the follow-up, comprise this report. Some editorial prerogative has been exercisec by the Division of Regional Medical Programs and the Editor. A follow-up letter was sent Although some of the content of the individual reports is outdated or perhaps historical at the time of this distribution, it is felt that this conspectus of activities with 51 of the 55 Programs reporting will be interesting and useful to those Regions which are planning library projects, and may indicate new directions for those which have operational library projects. It ig hoped that another information exchange session will be held at the Medical Library Association meeting in October 1969, with one or two representatives from each Region, to further encourage the involvement of medical librarians in the purposes of Regional Medical Programs. , (Miss) Aleene Schneider Editor and Research Assistant, Medical Planning Bi-State Regional Medical Program anne hese oye Sapa ate TOATOPORINE DECrtbbep yes “G09 (SN ZL DLL) MV LHORAdOD A@ 03193 : 3 . FLOTLOUd AA AVI IVIMALVIA SIHL SSOLLON “oulipoyy jo Asuuqr jeuoneny ‘uotstiaiq OUEDIpOYAy Jo Asorsiyy oy) ut fspiooot ' 8 s £ Gorteria sy offen REGION Tabama... cece ancccees ALlDaNy sees eee eee ee eee ATIZONA. . cece wee ew enene ArKANSGS oes e eee reece ves Bi-State..cecesecresees California... ...sseeeeee Central New York Colorado-Wyoming+..+-++. Connecticut ......ceeeae Flovida...cssececrcseuee Georgia.cccrcresssees Greater Delaware Valley Hawaii ew cscs ccssenccvee Tllinois ...cc cece evccee Indiana ss... cee cee ceons Intermountain.....-.eee. TOW cece cece rec cecveees KA@nSaS eee cece rece ce evee Maine wesc vecrenccsesence Memphis eecvcesscrvcvens Metropolitan Washington Michigan... -.seereeeees fississippies.ser-ceees MiSSOULL - cece cee nr eeens Mountain States......-. Nebraska-South Dakota.. New Jersey --ecssseeeees New Mexico-s-sccccrvccos New York Metropolitan.. North Carolina..--+++.- North Dakota ..eeveuseee Northeast Ohio.......-. Northern New England... Northlands .......-.eeee- Northwestern Ohio....-.- Ohio State... csseeceaee Ohio Valley ....s.esseee Oklahoma ...eeecvecavves OLEZON ws ees cc snservvces Rochester e.wsceeeveceee South Carolina......... Susquehanna Valley..... Tennessee Mid-South.... ¥-> ¢- 6 Tri-State ..ccccvcesevee Virginia ..ssscsessenace Washington-Alaska.-+.... Western New York.....-- Western Pennsylvania --- West Virginia ....+esee. WISCONSIN o-ceereeeceeos . . . . . . . CONTENTS PAG be Ra . Noe Ft OW OO ONIN DD OH & WD po rE mb Re te hy NDR RR eRe ee eR ee TOW WOMAOnINUADAAUUE FS BWW Nh PN bh N NB ee LE) aS ND db NNWY Nod bo wonw SOAIyaIY UONBID0ssy Alesqr jeoipoyy yy Wl0s- AG GALOILOYd 38 AVW TWINALVW SIHL ‘SOLLON ‘eulsipoyy jo Aseisqry] jeuonen ‘uolsiaig oufoipoy jo Asoysiyy Ou) Ul ‘Spiodu) Go WUIOD eHuBYyoxy eanog ones ey wv J HOWMAdOS The Alabama Regional an application for a pilot project concerning ior center. The empha~ sis is on providing the physician with current information quickly and regerdless of his geographical location. There is e designated library with five satellite libraries and direct communication between tne University of Alabama Medical Cenzer Library and the project liprery. in order to obviate the need for surveys by various groups and organizati ene group has been designated by the RP te survey the medical ; 2 areas in each county. As hospitals are surveyed, the lio ac. The Alabama RMP nas neld meetings with everyone on ne various committees and with individual persons and groups interested in the RYP. They have emphasized the role of tie physician in the R&P and the need for his support of all the programs. Contact: Mary Ann Knotts University of Alapame te tedical Center he ALBANY The Albany Regicnal Medical Program has fundeé equipment for the establishment of self-instruction center in four hospitais: Albany Medical Center, Ellis Hospital (Schenectady), Berxsnire Medical Center (Pittsfield) and Vassar Brothers Hospital (Poughkeepsie). This progran is being developed by members of the Department of Postgraduate Medicine. The self-instruction centers will be equipped with a medical juxe box for reccrdings, video tapes, carousels of slides, etc. Operation will begin in Fall 1968. RMP funds will service the centers initially, but each hospital will contribute annually to the operation in order to keep the material current and to become self- sufficient in this area. The self-instruction center for Albany Medical Center will be housed in the library when the new facilities are completed and will be part of the library operation. In all hospitals, the self- instruction centers will be administered by the library. A special committee of consulting librarians is now being established to plan library services for the Region and to develop proposals for KMP considerations. This Consulting Group for Library Services had its first meeting October 7, 1968. An initial survey of hospitals in the Region included data about libraries and their resources. Contact: Qirs.) Ursula H. Anker Librarian Albany Medical College SO LL AVLEL) MV7LHOWAdOD ‘(2009 * A G3LOSLOWd 38 AVIN TWIMALVIN SIHL *A51LON ‘OUIDIPOYY JO AJaiqry] joUONneN ‘UOISIAIQ SUIDIPaY) jo A1O3S1}4 Ol UL ‘Sp40904 BO UIOD BBULYoX ‘sUAnjoIY UONUISUSsy Alusay | I F ' nulous 17 fo mPuyy eUyT uuosy ARIZONA The Arizona Region is partially funding some activities of the Arizona Medical Library Network. This is conceived as a four-point program entailing (1) communication network, (2) literature supply service, (3) field consul- tation service and (4) conferance and training support. Planning includes preparation of a grant request for funding to support the Arizona Medical Library Network, with TWX and collect-call telephones fo request input, involving five institutions (three of which are non-medicai). In addition to these recommended locations for installation, use of TWX Service existing at governmental institutions such as Veterans Administration hospitals and Public Health Service Division of Indian Health hospitals is planned. ry Free photocopies will be supplied to health sciences personnel throughout the State from six medical "resource" libraries. There is partial funding by the Arizona Regional Medical Program. my field services will include consultation ar the local (nospital) level by a trained medical librarian funded by the RMP. The Field-Librarian will Work with other RMP personnel in a current awareness program which is in the early cevelopmental stages. a Spokesman for medical libraries hes had planning meetings wich the Coordinator and Asscciate Coordinator of the Arizona RMP in Tucson. Support is being requested for workshops of tne Medical Library Group of Arizona, and for field-librarian participation in State-wide meetings of health professions (with stress at the latter on "selling" our services). Surveys were deemed unnecessary due to the obvious and known lack of resources and services presently existing as well as the fact that the medical library community is so small and works so closely together that most survey type data were well known among the group. Contact: David Bishop Librarian College of Medicine Library University of Arizona VEAbAd raha ttaanes (3009 'S'N LU UL) MVT LHDIYAdOD SPlO901 GE uGtOY OBbuuyoxy sual UOUUmOssY Alia ue AG OALDALOUd FA AVN TWINELLVW SIH SIDLLON “ouTSIpoy) Jo Aruiqr] jHuOnUR HoIsAig OUNDIPoyy jo Asorsy [otfy Ut! ARKANSAS when Program funds become availabie an incoming Wide Area Telephone Service line will be provided to facilitate and expedite the Library services presently offered to the health science personnel of the State b- tne University of Arkansas Medical Center Liorary. Informatien on the program and its service will be disseminated by means cf a newsletter 2nd talxs before health science association. rrta € =fered to assist in the planning, establishmenr hospital medical 1 ry facilities. A computerized union list of serials and union catalog of monograpns will be begun in the second operational year to list medical library holdings throughout the State and thus facilitate service and promote cooperation among the libraries. A series of workshops to train hospital personnel to manage library collections are planned, to begin as soon as operational funds are availabie. Tne coordinator of Medical Library Service is currently working on a manual of basic medical library practice to assist this progran. n April 1968, 80 of 112 nospitals returned a survey questionnaire seeking information on available medical library resources in Arkansas. The results show that the majority of hospitals have a collection. It is usually neither large nor up-to-date. Great interest was shown in a progran for training personnel to handle hospital collections and in setting up collections where there are none. Interest was also shown in a medical library resources network in Arkansas. The information received from the survey was used to evaluate and devise methods of improving medical library resources for the health science personnel of Arkansas. Contact: (irs.) Sally G. Kasalko Coordinator of Medical Library Service Arkansas Regional Medical Program 1 LHORAdOS =< ~ “SN ZL SUL Mv “(aqdoo WIPO JO Aroyeyy OW) US psO007 DOL UNO?) ABUT “SOAKIANG Genes “OULoIpoYy JO Anaqry) juueQuA “otstAiq, oun: ‘JOLLON Al G3.LOALOUd AN AWW OTVIRELLVIN SIF The Bi-State Regional Medical Progran of the Continuing Education Committee and member of the Continuing Education Committ T of representatives of the Washington and St. Lou Libraries and other medical librariens in the ar O° he library ccnni . c s University Medical Canter he On September 12, 1968, the Bi-Stace RMP hosted a meeting 5s the Continuing Education Commict2e at the St. Louis Medical Soci of Staff, Administrators and Librarians from hosp cals in the Region were invited. A joint session of all attendees was 12 d in the merning an presentations by the Bi-State Planning Director and Associate Directo Heart, Cancer and Stroke. In the afternoon separate sassions were he (1) Chiefs of Staff, and (2) Administrators with Librarians to discuss suggestions for possible projects. Based on information about other REP library activities and suggestions at this meeting, each attendee vas asked to submit five ideas listed in order of their interest and priority. Attendees were also asxed to send in copies of the AHA library survey for use as planning information. As a result of this meeting several ideas emerged. Those ideas of interest to the greatest number were workshops for librarians, consultation for hospital libraries by librarians with more knowledge and axperience, and union list of serials. Workshops on Journals were held at nospitais in Cape ow irardeau, Missouri, for the southern part of the Region and at Springfield, Illinois, in the northern part of the Region, where the faculty were medical librarians from the St. Levis area. The progrezs also invol participation by physicians and administrators in local ares hospitals speaxing as liovary users. A Workbook and Syllabus was developed by the Library Sub-Committee for use at these and future workshops. At the workshop at Cape Girardeau on November 21, faculty were from libraries of Washington University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. The workshop held in Springfield, Illinois, on January 23 had faculty from the VA Hospital and St. Louis Medical Society Libraries. An operational proposal has been submitted by the library sub-committee to establish a region-wide information system for health professionals based upon a cooperative hospital library network. The system will consist of an information and assistance network emanating to satellite libraries from the core medical library resources and services which already exists in the region. All Bi-State hospitals will be invited to participate. Provisions are made for subscriptions to literature indexes, workshops, a field librarian and additional user and resources surveys. Contacts: (Miss) Aleene Schneider Bi-State Regional Medical Program Dr. Estelle Brodman, Chairman Library Sub-Committee “EHNOO SA Zt ATUL) MV LHOTAdOS Aq G3ALO3SLOYd aa AVW AVINSLVW SIRL SAOILON “OUIDIPOY,Y Jo Aawiqry jQuUonoRy *UOISIAIG OUIDIPBIAL jo AsoiSipY OY] UL 'SPsO90) OOTTIUMUOD obueyoxg ‘SUAHOIY UONUIOUSSY Aiwsqry (VOIP, UYy UlOd- CALIFORNIA The Universizy of Calizornia-Los Angeles Biomedical Library is cooper- g with the UCLA Regional Medical Programs (California RMP-~Area IV) and as proposed a Medical Library and Information Service for nine counties. 42 on a sub-regional network, the Service would provide physicians and alized rapid and easy access to the published literature. It would complement the Nationai Library of Medicine's plan for regional medical libraries by concentrating on service to the health professional in his efforts to better the treatment of patients. Local hospital information points backstopped by a number of RMP- ssisted "center libraries” are proposed as first resorts with resources at the Biomedical Library and key libraries in other California RP Areas available to fill more sophisticated requests. The Service would be inte- est Regional Medical Library for Maintenance of useful existing Basic to the Service is a network ents and including an infor- ons component utilizing TWX nsuLltant a grated with the proposed Pa ific Southw Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada. patterns of cooperation is emphasized. developed through extensive cooperative arrangem mation dissemination component and a communicati Continuing education for medical libraries and cc anc telephone. a qualified professional start. services would be offered by A pilot project was initiated in mid-1967 to test the feasibilicy of In the past year four widely-spread hospital a sub-regicnal network. ed "center libraries" and serve libraries in outlying areas were designat health professionals in eight counties. (Center libraries are located in Fresno, Bakersfield, Ventura and Santa Barbara. Locations in Los Angeles County are being proposed.) The information dissemination and communication components of the network have been stressed. Health professionals or their librarian may telephone the center library to request photocopies of recent articles, short bibliographies or ready-reference service. Requests which cannot be filled at the center library are referred by teletypewriter to the Biomedical Library. Quarterly workshops on librarianship are held for the center librarians. In late 1968 increased effort was devoted to cooperative arrangements, e-wide council was formed to coordinate RMP library services. The ibrarians of the eight California medical schools The council and a stat council consists of the 1 and the librarian of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. has on its agenda the consideration of joint objectives and is studying areas of cooperation. he UCLA~RMP area has been A survey of hospital library resources int conducted and a surmary of the results is available upon request. Contacts: Louise Darling, Biomedical Librarian University of California - Los Angeles Nelson J. Gilman Assistant Biomedical Librarian “(3G09 ‘SN ZL AVL) AV LHOWAdOD oxg ‘s . Doss 3 SSOAIWSEY UONUIDOSsy Ajuigr jBoIpaW! oun tuo? Ag O43 : . LOALOUd 3A AVW IVINALVI SIHL ADILLON ‘otHDIpoyy jo Auusqr] jouoneN ‘UOISIAIG ollaIpaYW Jo Aloysity OY) UL ‘spiod02 OVI 5 . as t JUNOT ofuuYy CENTRAL NEW YORK gram funded the distribution of on Central New Yor Regional Medic SUNY Union List to all hospitals int jon along with information how hospitals and their stati members use library loan service to request books or periodicals, and use photocopy service to receive free Kerox copy of articles. Special ILL printed request forms are provide by the RY to each library. A new list of new acquisicions and up-to-dat inZornation is distributed each montn to each hospital. as a result of tne above, a twenty times increase in reaue ials has been seen at state Library. al ° ne Reg c iD fu a U oO sts for materi A librarian will be hired to work in the Upstate Library for the Regional Medical Program, currently recruiting for this program. Plans for a workshop have been made, but are dependent on operational funding. Contact: Irwin H. Pizer Director of tn State Universi Upstate Medical Center e Library ty of New York COLORADO-WYOMING The Colorado-Wyoming Regional Medical Program is in the planning stage and has no library segment to its program so far. There has been a suggestion that bibliographies could be provided on heart, cancer and stroke, using the MEDLARS tapes. Contact: Dr. F. Brad Rogers University of Colorado Medical Center Library CONNECTICUT The Connecticut Regional Medical Program, through a survey and d University of Connecticut the Yale an RMP officials, ry Consultant, d Lee Ash, Libra and allocate resources. discussions between C has estab lished the medical librarians, an need to provide services ermine the Researchers the Regional a library project to det on #1 Medical Library. The Connecticut RMP is supporting lationship between relationship of this project to the Regi have the opportunity of also observing the re library and possible sub-Regional activities. Contact: Sam Hitt Medical Library University of Connecticut SaAIYoRY WO is V Honoossy Alar ieoipoir out tied (3009 ‘S'N ZL ATLL) MV LHONMAdOD A . ‘“) 2 2 3 OUIDIPO|WW) jo Aieiqi ] feuUOnBA ‘UdIs i i ory ofa) {LON IAI BUlDIPOYy jo AlojqSI ut A I H OY] Ul ‘spi0900 OOP ees d 38 AVWWIV Vv SIH 39 gy AMORA FLORIDA No library activities are funded by the Florida Regional Medical Program at this time. A grant application is being written for RMP support for expansion of present services and to include some new ones. No surveys at this time, but plans are being made for future surveys with the Office of Continuing Education, and the Executive Secretary of the Florida Hospital Association. An initial planning meeting and workshop have been heid at the Health Center Library. A study has been done of the increase in interlibrary loan for period July 1966 - July 30, 1968. Present services include xerox copies, bibliography service limited to three to five year periods, TWX service, outgoing Wide Area Telephone Service line, union list of serials distributed to hospital librarians for use in interlibrary loan. Contact: Elizabeth S. Eaton Assistant Librarian J. Hillis Miller Health Center Library University of Florida GEORGIA The Georgia Regional Medical Program is supporting an interlibrary loan program through which the A. W. Calhoun Medical Library, Emory University, Atlanta, and the Medical College of Georgia Library, Augusta, will provide free photocopy in lieu of loans of original materials to the institutions participating in the Georgia Regional Medical Program. During the first year of operation each institution will receive a maximum of 3000 pages free. The medical school libraries will refer loan requests they are unable to fill to appropriate sources. The program will be received and modified as indicated after the first year. Funds have also been allocated for the preparation of a union list of serial holdings of the two medical school libraries; provision will be made for the addition of the holdings of other libraries. The Task Force on Continuing Education of the Georgia Regional Medical Program is the body responsible for planning library services. Several Task Forces mentioned in their reports the need for better interlibrary loan services, and this is the first library service to be offered. A modification of the questionnaire prepared by the Tompkins-McCaw Library, Medical College of Virginia, and the University of Virginia Medical Center Library will be used in an RMP survey of the libraries of the 121 institutions participating in the Georgia Regional Medical Program. The | results of the survey are anticipated in the late spring of 1969. The Institute on Hospital Libraries, sponsored by Georgia RMP was held in Atlanta on December 12-13, 1968. Faculty included librarians from Medical College of Georgia, Emory University Medical Library and Dental Library, National Communicable Disease Center Library. Session topics -7- SOAIYOIY UOUIDUSSYy Aiusqry) jEoIpuyy ou) wosy AG G3.LO3LOUd 38 AVW TVINALVIN SIHL ADILON ‘SUufipoy; jo Aseiqry jeuoney ‘uolsiaiq auloipayy jo A101SIH{ 94) UL ‘sp10901 ao yUMWIOD oBueyoxg {3009 SA 1 FULL) M7 LHOAdOS x " . were "Interlibrary Loan Transactions", and 'Buiiding Collections Problem clinics were heid on "Starting a Hospital Library", “Administration and Public Relations", and "Special Problexs of Hospital Libraries". A general session was presented by the Chief, Facilities and Resource Division, National Library of Medicine, on "Implications of the Set for Small Medical Libraries’. The Education Medical Library Assistance Act and Training Coordinator for the Georgia RP presided at general sessions and gave a presentation about the Georgia Regional Program. Contact: Miriam H. Libbey, Librarian A. W. Calhoun Medical Library Emory University GREATER DELAWARE VALLEY Library activities have been along the geographical lines specified by the Regional Medical Library Program (R4LP) rather than the Greater Deleware Valley Regional Mec:cal Program. 2d as the Regional The College of Physicians has recently been designat Southern New Jersey, Medical Library for an area iacluding all of Pennsylvania, and Delaware with a total perulation of about 14,000 ,000. The Greater Delaware Valley RMP has no specific library committee, but there is a close liaison wit: its Continuing Education Committee. In one sense, the RMLF has been "operational" for some time since the ‘ad about 40,000 loans within the Region during College of Physicians supplie ‘31 designation as the Regional Medical Library. the year prior to its officis The RMLP actually represents a strengthening of existing service patterns, which in this particular are: have been regionalized for some time. The College is currently engagec in some planning and in a survey, which will establish the existing trams:ctional pattern for Interlibrary loans within the Region. In conjunction with planning the RMLP, the College of Physicians has held a number of meetinzs, two of which involved several hundred repre- sentatives of the Region's libraries. Contact: Richard H. Orr, M.D., Director Institute for Advancement of Medical Communication (For Elliot Morse, Librarian College of Physicians) ‘ FJ 'SeAYUOIY UONBIDOSSW Alnicin ipsainnias on siiae AG GILDIZLOUd 3 AV TVIHALVW SIHL *SDILON ‘“9u!dipe A ‘ IPE JO Aseiqr] jeuoNeN ‘Uolsiaiq ouloIpa; jo Aioysi}] at) UL spsoo0l 9ayLUWIOD eaBuByox SIGO9 "SA Lt FULL) MW LHOILAdOD HAWAIT oe There is no library project associated with the Hawaii Regional Medical Program at this time. Contact: Masato Hosegawa, M.D., Director Regional Medical Program of Hawaii ILLINOIS d for region at this time. John Crerar No library project planne ignated the NIM Regional Medical Library. Library in Chicago has been des Contact: Wright Adams, M.D. Program Coordinator Illinois RMP INDIANA Proposed projects include extension of existing WATS line system. The terminal at Indiana University School of Medicine Library is a part of the State Library teletype network and is on an open line to terminals in public libraries in twenty-two Indiana cities and to the State Universities. In U-M, the computer-produced list of Library's serial holdings has been sent to all Indiana hospitals and TWX terminals with funds received through a Medical Library Resources Crant. It is hoped that these and other traditional services could be funded through the Regional Medical Program grant being proposed. fered to small hospital libraries In addition, assistance would be of ces for their medical staffs. in Indiana in order to bring about better servi This goal would be reached through seminars in library techniques for personnel in such libraries, and a consulting service designed to assist in development of good library collections. A survey of hospital library collections with the intention of eliminating duplication, developing cooper- ative acquisitions, and improving interlibrary loan cooperation among hospital libraries is planned, as is a union list of the serials available in Indiana hospital libraries. To aid physicians directly, selective dissemination of information services such as Chemical and Biological Activities and four other alerting services are available on a state-wide basis. Audio visual tapes describing the use of certain important reference tools such as INDEX MEDICUS have been prepared “(2009 ‘S'N ZL FULL) MV LHOIMAdOD PEW 5 Aqr] [|BUONeN “UOISIAIG: SUIDIPOYW } Aj YSI}4 OY} Uf 'Sp1O9902 GO] HUUWIO7) eBueyoxy SBAIYUay tonBloossy Aa QV] (BoIpay) ot a AVIN TVINSLVW SIHL ‘3014 ON a {} Wuol rary stafi and they are working on a KWIK e publications, National Research Council publications and certain military medical publications. The KWIK INDEXES would be distributed to all hospital libraries and teletype terminals in Indiana, and the audio visual tapes would be sent to any interested insti- tution on request. by the School of Medicine Lib index to Public Health Servic li h It is felt that the above can best be realized through the estaplisn- ment. of library extensicn services with sole responsibility in these areas and Regional Medical Program funds are being sought to that end. Contact: re fiss Mary Jane Laatz, Librarian iss Virginia Gillette, Assistant to the Librarian Indiana University Medical Center ss INTERMOUNTAIN A full-time librarian began July 1, 1968 at the University of Utah Medical Sciences Library, and is the extension librarian participating in the Intermountain Regional Medical Program. A grant application for support of a Library Project is being written. A number of requests for assistance in improving medical information communication and resources have been received from hospitals and physicians in the Region. The IRMP has established an information service in order to make available to practicing physicians current medical literature appropri- ate to their needs in stroke. The IRMP tumor registry will bring the most pertinent selected medical references from a bibliography of current references on the registry's hospital and physician reports following the listing of cancers of each specific site. These references will change at least every six months. Contact: (Mrs. ) Marion A. Chavez Extension Librarian Intermountain Regional Medical Program -10- SBAINSIY UOnGIOOSSW Alpin ieoinatar oie iin AG G3LOLOUd 38 AVN TWIMALVW SIHL ‘391LON “euloipey Jo Aseiqr] jeuonen ‘uoIsiaig auiIpe; Jo As01S!H OY) UI ‘spio9e2 BaryRULLIOD eBUEYOX] San a gta UL) M7 LHOIAdOO LOWA The Iowa Regional Medical Program is presently undertaking develop- ment of a comprehensive continuing education program for practicing physicians in Iowa and is contemplating a multi-faceted education program that would include such items as the provision of visual education equip- ment for use by physicians at their convenience; utilization of the Wisconsin Regional Medical Program's "dial access"! taped information system; a coordinated speaker's bureau; and communication svstenm between medical libraries of community hospitals and the College of Medicine Library and the National Library of Medicine MEDLARS. Contact: William J. Schaef Field Consultant Iowa Regional Medical Program KANSAS Kansas Regional Medical Program has an Office for Library Services with a staff of five who act as consultants and advisors to those who wish to establish medical library services or to upgrace existing services. They render services to other programs of the KRYP such as compiling bibliographies and providing a "ready" reference service supplying needed materials. The program also serves health professionals in other Kansas towns on a limited basis. In the future, with an enlarged staff and collection, the goal of the program is to make its collection and holdings known and to give professional medical library services to all health personnel in the State at very low cost. A meeting held in April 1968, in Merriam, Kansas, was attended by 35 people interested in medical library services for the State, and included hospital administrators, librarians and physicians. Plans for state-wide medical library services were explained in discussions led by four RMP staff members. Other topics included the goals and progress of the KRMP and Regional Medical Library system of the National Library of Medicine, Contact: Desi B. Schaeffer Executive Director for Library Services Kansas Regional Medical Program -ll- ISN AE DVL MV LHOAdOD Ae Adeetesee teacver ae eee } ‘SOAS TOMEI eG * v “(200 AG C3LO3LOUd FA AVIAN TWINE.LVW SIH SSOLLON “euloIpoyy jo Anuqr juonuy ‘uolsiaig oUoIpoyy yo Alo] 5) | OUL UL sploood go yuo ofuingox MAINE osel: with the New England A letter has been pubiished