NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE SERVICES U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Public Health Service 7th Street & Independence Ave., S. W. Washington 25, D. C. July 1957 Table of Contents Purpose................... 1 Library Hours ................ 1 Loans.................... ■*■ Photographic Services.......... . . 3 Reference Service.............. h Translators and Research Workers..... 5 History of Medicine Division........ 6 Art Section.................. 6 Publications...............„ . 7 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE One of the aims of the National Library of Medicine is to make its resources available to all workers who may have a need for them. In fulfilling this aim the National Library of Medi- cine considers that its main role should be to supplement the resources of local and regional libraries. The Library is Open to the Fublic Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 9 p«m. Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday Closed Special hours of opening during the summer and on holidays. WHAT MAY BE BORROWED All printed literature in the Library's col- lection is available for loan, with the exception of ordinary, current,in-trade publications where the presumption of wide-spread accessibility elsewhere is reasonable. In the case of material in the History of Medicine Division, requests will be examined individually, WHO MAY BORHDW The National Library of Medicine will loan material only to other libraries. Individuals 1 coming to the Library must use the material on the premises. For qualified researchers under- taking long-term bibliographical projects at the Library, study tables in the stacks will be made available, insofar as facilities permit, on application to the Head of the Circulation Section. FORM OF LOANS Material in the Library will be loaned in the original form or as photoduplicates (micro- film or photoprints). The National Library of Medicine reserves the right to determine in which form the loan will be made, taking into con- sideration costs of photocopying, copyright re- strictions, rarity of the item requested, its physical condition, the frequency of use of the item, shipping costs, and any other points which seem pertinent. While loan service is inter- national, normally loans to libraries outside the Continental United States will be made in the form of photocopies only. PROCEDURES FOR BORROWING 1, Requests for interlibrary loans are to be made in writing, using either the ALA Inter- library Loan Form or t he NLM Interlibrary Loan Form, available without charge from the Circu- lation Section, National Library of Medicine. All requests must be signed, and the signature shallbe understood to be certification that the material requested is not available in the re- questing library. 2. Requests for loans should contain full bibliographical information. For books, this consists of full name of author, title, place, publisher, and date of publication. When feasi- 2 ble, the NLM call number should be given, A re- quest for an article should show the name of the journal, date of issue, volume number, author, and title of the article, and the pages ( in- clusive numbering) on whichthe article appears. 3. Loans of original works are made on con- dition that the greatest care be taken in pack- ing and transmitting material for return to the National Library of Medicine. Among other pre- cautions, the corners and edges of books must be well protected; unbound material should not be rolled but should be sent flat, preferably by mail. All returns must be adequately insured. Original material from the History of Medicine Division is to be used within the borrowing library. U. All material in original form must be returned within four weeks of receipt. Any item maybe recalled by the National Library of Medi- cine at any time. Interlibrary loans in the form of photocopies may be retained by the borrowing library. 5. Loans of non-serial material published prior to 1801 should be requested directly from the History of Medicine Division, Nationallibrary of Medicine, 11,000 Euclid Avenue at Adelbert Road, Cleveland 6, Ohio. Microfilm copies of much of this material are available. # -a- * <* * * # PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES 1. Exclusions. Requests by individuals for 3 photocopies ofbooks, journals, journal articles, or other printed materials will not be honored as such. The extent of photo copying at the Nation- al Library of Medicine is limited to a selected portion of interlibrary loan, requests, as ex- plained above, 2. Pictorial Works. Works such as por- traits, etchings, and caricatures which are a part of the Library's collection will not usual- ly be loaned outside the Library. Photographic copies of these works can bemade; cost estimates for such work will be provided on request. 3• Facsimile and other copying. Whenever facsimile photocopies are required, in positive copy and exact size of the original, or whenever enlarged copies of certain pages may be requir- ed, as for exhibit or other purposes, the Library will make such copies available; cost estimates will be provided on request. h» Text and line drawings. Most requests for photocopying services are for the repro- duction of text andline drawings. Forthis reason the equipment of the laboratory has been de- signed to handle this material as quickly and as economically as possible. If faithful repro- ductions of photographs and plates included in a bookor journal article are desired, the request- or should indicate his need and special treat- ment will be given his order. * * * * -x- * *■ REFERENCE SERVICE Reference librarians are available t6 help u those who come to the Library, Questions which require brief search will be answered by tele- phone (Executive 3-6300 (Code 176) Extension 1*371* or 5369). Bibliofraphic searches on specific subjects will be undertaken, as the Library's facilities permit, in response to written requests from those who have exhausted the resources of their local libraries. Requests for biblio- graphic searches may be made by other libraries or by individuals and should state 1) the sub- ject, defined in considerable detail with de- lineation of any special aspects which are of particular interest; 2) the years to be covered; 3) the languages to be included; and h) the sources already examined. It is also helpful to the bibliographer to know in detail the purpose for which the bibliography is to be used. Re- quest blanks for the bibliographic services are available. Information about existing biblio- graphies will also be supplied. A complete list of bibliographies prepared by the National Library of Medicine is available on request. ******* TRANSLATORS AND RESEARCH WORKERS The Library does not provide translation services, but will attempt to locate ' existing translations or abstracts. It maintains a reg- ister of translators and research workers with whom private arrangements can be made. The Library cannot take responsibility for the work of the people on its register, nor is it able to supply information about their charges. 5 HISTORY OF MEDICINE DIVISION The Library's collection of monographs (ex- cept theses and pamphlets) published before 1801, together with material relating to them, is lo- cated at its History of Medicine Division, 11,000 Euclid Avenue at Adelbert Road, Cleveland 6, Ohio. Special rules pertain to the use of material in this Division and correspondence onit should be addressed directly to the Division, All of the materials listed in the CATALOGUE OF INCUNABULA AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ARMY MEDI- CAL LIBRARY, by D.M. Schullian and F, E, Sommer (19^0) have been microfilmed. On request micro- film copies will be loaned. ******* ART SECTION The Art Section of the Library contains por- traits, photographs, etchings, and other non- clinical illustrations pertaining to medicine, which may be borrowed under special conditions. Requests for copies of pictures in the Art Section should be submitted directly to the Art Section on photoduplication order forms ( PHS 2700). Glossy black and white prints and lantern slides can be furnished at cost. ******* 6 PUBLICATIONS (1) THE CURRENT LIST OF MEDICAL LITERATURE is a monthly publication of the Library, which lists the contents of selected scientific journals currently received. A subject and author index is included with each issue, and a semi-annual cumulation cf the indexes is also furnished. Subscriptions to the CURRENT LIST are avail- able through the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. at #13.50 a year, (Foreign subscriptions at #17.00 a year.) (2) The .Armed Forces Medical Library CATALOG 1950-195U (6v), and its annual supplements con- tain the record of books cataloged by the Library from 19^0 to date. Both the basic set and the annual volumes are published in two alphabets, by author and by subject. The 1950-195U CATALOG is for sale directly from the publishers, J. W. Edwards, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan; priced at #6U.OO per set, f.o.b. Ann Arbor. The 1956 CATALOG is the first to appear as the National Library of Medicine CATALOG. It and the 1955 CATALOG are for sale by the Card Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., priced at#17.50 plus UO cents postage for each volume. The AFML CATALOG, 1950-195U, and the suc- ceeding annual volumes, are publishedas a supple- ment to the Library of Congress Catalog, (3) Copies of the Library's multilithed catalog cards for the current year are available as a series only, on subscription from the Card 7 Division, Library of Congress, The series con- tains one copy of each card and is priced at one cent per card, (h) The National Library of Medicine CLASSI- FICATION; A Scheme For the Shelf Arrangement of Books in the Field of Medicine and its Related Sciences, 1956. This second edition of the Library's CLASSIFICATION isfor sale bythe Super- intendent of Documents,U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, and is priced at #2.00 per copy. (5) CARD CATALOGS: KEYS TO THE LIBRARY'S COLLECTIONS. This descriptive list (15 p) was prepared in 1956 to make the information con- tained in the collections more accessible. It is distributed free upon request. (6) The INDEX-CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE is a publication of the National Library of Medicine. Fifty-eight volumes have been published since its inception in 1880; the latest andfinal volume in the tra- ditional form is Volume XI of the Fourth Series covering material indexed under the letters "MH- MN." Volume XI, which appeared in 1955, is a- vailable from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, at #9.00 per copy. In addition, the section on "Military Medicine" and the "Supplementary List of Abbrevi- ations for Serial Publications" in Volume XI have been made available as separate reprints. Copies of the INDEX-CATALOGUE are deposited i n many libraries and research institutions throughout the world. A microprint edition of the IMDEX- CATALOGUE is offered for sale by Readex Micro- print Corporation, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, at #75.00. A monographic Supplementary Series derived from the files of unpublished en- 8 tries remaining from the INDEX-CATALOGUE, is also in preparation. (7) The BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICAL REVIEWS is an annual listing, by subject, of recent medical review articles. Volume 2 for 1957, appearing in July 1957, is available through the Superin- tendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. (8) Occasional bibliographies of a compre- hensive nature on subjects of current interest are published and distributed free upon request. Among others, PLASMA SUBSTITUTES, and PATHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF BURNS, appeared in 1952, GAS GANGRENE ORGANISMS, appeared in 1953. The STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION AND GROWTH OF BONE and SLAVIC MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES appeared in 1955. An extensive bibliographyonCANCER CHEMOTHERAPY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AGENTS appeared in 1956 as a supplement to the journal "Cancer Research." 9 THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE FORMERLY THE ARMED FORCES MEDICAL LIBRARY, IS NOW A PART OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE FOLLOWING THE ENACTMENT OF PUBLIC LAW 941, 84TH CONGRESS, APPROVED AUGUST 3, 1956. Letters requesting information about the Nat- ional Library of Medicine and its services should be addressed to: The Director National Library of Medicine 7th Street and Independence Ave., S. W. Washington 25, D. C. Public Health Service Publication No. 507 (Revised July 1957) GPO 9 28 107