Brief survey of public information services at privately-supported medical school libraries: comparison with publicly-supported medical school libraries.

摘要

IN an attempt to define the extent to which the College of Medicine and Dentistry of NewJersey's George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences would offer its resources and public services to the community without neglecting its primary clientele, a public services policy manual was proposed. Although the library had some guidelines of its own, we wanted to consider the range and limitations of services offered to the general public at other publicly-supported medical school libraries before issuing a manual. In April 1975 we surveyed publicly-supported medical school libraries in the U.S. with regard to their reference services policies for the general public [1].