Library and Information Science

Library and Information Science ISSN: 2435-8495
三田図書館・情報学会 Mita Society for Library and Information Science
〒108‒8345 東京都港区三田2‒15‒45 慶應義塾大学文学部図書館・情報学専攻内 c/o Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan
https://mslis.jp/ E-mail:mita-slis@ml.keio.jp
Library Science 5: 153-169 (1967)
doi:10.46895/ls.5.153

原著論文Original Article

MEDLARSへの協力とその利用Co-operation with and use of MEDLARS' service

発行日:1967年7月1日Published: July 1, 1967
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The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s MEDLARS system began its operation in 1963, and is now as the stage of developing its world wide network of the decentralized, “satellite” centers.

Some of them, such as the medical libraries of UCLA and University of Colorado reported their experience in opening up the centers. The formers' reports were mostly on the problems they encountered in reprograming the MEDLARS for the IBM 7094 computer by using COBOL. The latter analyzed the costs of operating its center and providing the demand literature search service.

The recurring bibliographies in the fields of rheumatology, fibrinolysis, cardiovascular diseases, dentistry, nursing, etc., are the products of another type of cooperation between MEDLARS and the groups of specialists in the United States. As for the oversea satellite centers, there are two at the moment, one in England and the other in Sweden.

In Japan, the medical school library of Keio University started the work of indexing Japanese medical periodical articles for MEDLARS in 1966. The library is also acting as an agent of the NLM in acquiring Japanese medical books and periodicals.

It is desired to have a satellite center in Japan. The most suitable place to locate the center may be the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST). But to ask the NLM to provide our center the MEDLARS' magnetic tapes and the programs to run them, all of the organizations who are concerned with medical information works have to get together and make our request to the NLM as national request.

It is not an easy task but it must be done lest we should not be left behind of the development in this world-wide machine literature search system in medicine.

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