Intraschool cross-indexing system to encourage sharing of departmental collections.

摘要

ON the University of Maryland at Baltimore campus the schools of dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and social work and community planning are served by a centralized Health Sciences Library. Because the traditional course of study in the dental curriculum, as in most health sciences curricula, allows little free time for independent, self-motivated reading, dental students seldom get an opportunity to use the facilities at the Health Sciences Library. As in some other health science institutions, state funds are also provided to individual departments within each school for the acquisition of monograph andjournal collections used to satisfy the immediate research and reference needs of their faculty and graduate students. Unfortunately, few of these materials find their way beyond the confines of the individual departments. With this in mind, the Faculty Council's Committee on Library and Publications decided that one of its goals should be to make this literature more accessible to faculty, staff, and students.