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the health professional's activities. 3. The program needs to be evaluated continually to determine whether it is a good use of the librarian's time. POSITINVE RESULTS 1. The librarian has an improved feel for what information the health prof'essional needs. 2. The health professionals understand what the librarian can contribute as a member of' the health care team. 3. Many questions raised at the bedside are never answered because the pressure of other activities discourages the requester from going to the library. 4. Evaluations made by the physicians indicate that the program has immense educational benefits which cannot help but be reflected in improved patient care. If the library is to be an active partner in the system of obtaining information in a medical center, ways of establishing this partnership are needed. The clinical medical librarianship program is one method; each librarian will have to decide whether it is an appropriate method in his or her institution.

disciplinary compartmentalization of knowledge, the unprecedented increase in the number of journals published, spiraling subscription rates, and the changing hospital have combined to present a perplexing problem to the health science librarian . ." [1]. Those words are still appropriate todav. In the intervening vears others [2, 3] have recommended journal titles to assist the hospital librarian in selection. These titles have been based on suggestions. not on journal titles hospital librarians actually acquire. In 1973 the Medical Library Group of Southern Calif'ornia compiled a union list of' medical and paramedical serials in thirty-four Southern Calif'ornia hospitals and six institutions serving individuals involved in the delivery of health care. Using data from the 197a4 edition of' the American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field, the characteristics of the hospital group contributing to the union list are described in Table 1. The six other institutions include two pharmaceutical companies. one health insurance corporation, two research facilities, and one

consulting corporation. Holdings lists included in the union list were and any title subscribed to by twentv reviewed 1. ALGERMISSEN, V. Biomedical librarians in a patient care setting at the University of Missouri- or more of the forty participating institutions REFERENCE

Kansas City School of Medicine. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 62: 354-8. Oct. 1974.

TABLE 1 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOSPITAILS

Journal Titles Held by Forty Health Care Institutions in Southern California

No. with

No. of hospitals internship

By Lois ANN COLAIANNI, Director of Libraries

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles. California

1

1

0 2 2 1 1

1 0 2 2 1

23

2000and

1 34

11

201-300 301-400

Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(4) Oct. 197.5

0 1 5 3

0 0 0 0 1

Medical Sciences Librarv University of California, Irvine Irvine. California

ninety recommended journals for the health science librarv: "Two decades ago the answer to the question, 'to which journals should the library in our hospital subscribe?' was fairly easy to determine. Today the disappearance of

0 1 5 5 5 0

701-800 801-900 901-999 1000-1999

101-200

IN 1967 Helen Yast, Librarian of the American Hospital Association, began an article listing

0 0 2 3 4 0

1 5 9 6 5 0 1 0 2 2 2

0-100

CYNTHIA BUTLER, Head of Public Services

401-500 501-600 601-700

No. with medical school resiaff ildencies iation No. with

:3 0

1

over

Total

19

411

TABLE 2 JOURNAILS RECEIVED

BY

TWENTY

OR

MORE INSTlITuTrONS

Number of libraries

Journal title

37 35 35 35 35 34 34

Journal of the American Medical Association Annals of Internal Medicine Hospitals Lancet New England Journal of Medicine Archives of Internal Medicine Western Journal of Medicine (California Medicine) American Journal of Nursing Archives of Dermatology Cancer Circulation American Journal of Cardiology American Journal of Medicine Annals of Surgery Blood British Medical Journal Medical Clinics of North America Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics Modern Healthcare (Modern Hospital) Surgery American Journal of Surgery Anesthesiology Archives of Surgery CA Mayo Clinic Proceedings Surgery. Gynecology and Obstetrics American Heart Journal American Journal of Diseases of Children Archives of Neurology Journal of Laboratory and Clinical NMedicine Radiology American Journal of Clinical Pathology American Journal of Public Health American Review of Respiratory Diseases Archives of Otolaryngology Archives of Pathology Arthritis and Rheumatism

33 33 33 33 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 31 31 31 31 31 31 30 30 30 30 30 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 27

27 27

AIM

Brandon

Yast

x

x

x

x

x x

_

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

xx

x

x

x

.xx

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

~~~~~x

AXx

x

x

x

x

x

x

-

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

xx

x

_

-

Exx

x

x

x

x

xx

x

xx

x

x

x

x

X

X

Chest

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Amer) Journal of Pediatrics Journal of Urology Postgraduate Medicine Surgical Clinics of North America American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology DM; Disease a Month Gastroenterology Journal of Clinical Investig,ation Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgerv Nursing Outlook Archives of Ophthalmology Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Diabetes

Hospital Forum 412

X

xe

X X

s.

X

X

~~~~X

X x

Xy

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TABLE 2-Continued Number of libraries 27 27 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 23 23 23 23 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 21 21 21 21 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Journal title

Hospital Practice Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Nursing Clinics of North America Pediatric Clinics of North America Pediatrics American Journal of Ophthalmology American Journal of Roentgenologv, Radium Therapy and Nuclear Medicine Annals of Thoracic Surgery AORN Journal Medicine American Family Physician/GP Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons Current Problems of' Surgery Hospital Topics Journal of Trauma Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Diseases Obstetrics and Gynecology Progress in Cardiovascular Disease RN Anesthesia and Analgesia British Heart Journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research Clinical Symposia Gut Neurology Nursing Research Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery American Journal of'the Medical Sciences British Journal of Radiology Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal of' Infectious Diseases American Journal of Clinical Nutrition American Journal of Digestive Diseases Archives of General Psychiatry Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Brit) Journal of Neurosurgery Orthopedic Clinics of North America Clinical Pediatrics Geriatrics Radiologic Clinics of North America Science American Journal of' Pathology American Journal of Psychiatry Annals of' Otology. Rhinology and Larvngology Brain Canadian Medical Association Journal

Hospital Medicine Laryngoscope Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental Seminars in Hematology

AIM

Brandon

Yast

x x x x

x x x x x x

x

x

x

x

x x

x x

x

x x x

x x

x

x

x

x

x x

x

x

x x x -

x x x x x x

x

x

x

x

x

k

x

x

x

x x

x x

x x

x X

x x

-

x

k

-

x x x

x

x

x

x x

x x x

x

x x

x x

x

x

-

7,3 Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(4) Oct. 1975

x x x x

x

-

x

-

-

84

78

413

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was listed. Table 2 lists the 104 journal titles that qualified and indicates the number of' libraries subscribing to that title. Also noted are (1) whether the journal is indexed in Abridged Index Medicus, (2) whether the journal is listed in the 1975 edition of' Brandon's list, and (3) whether the journal was listed in Yast's list published in 1967. The f'ollowing sixteen titles subscribed to by the Southern California libraries do not appear on any of' the three other lists: Anesthesia and Analgesia, AORN Journal, Bulletin of the American College of' Surgeons. Western Journal of' Medicine. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Current Problems in Surgery, Clinical Symposia, Hospital Forunm, Hospital Medicine, Hospital Practice, Hospital Topics, Larvngoscope, Modern Concepts in Cardiovascular Disease, Orthopedic Clinics of North America, RN, Seminars in Hematology. Because the list of 104 is an actual reflection of' existing library collections, it provides an indication of' titles considered important by a representative group of' libraries. As such, it may serve as a guide in the selection of' journal titles to be included in a health science librarv collection. REFERENCES 1. YAsr, HELEN T. Ninety recommended journals for

the hospital's health science library. Hospitals 41: 59-62, July 1, 1967. 2. BRANDON. ALFRED N. Selected list of' books and journals for the small medical library. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 6:3: 149-72, Apr. 1975. 3. STEARNS, NORMAN S., AND RATCILIFF, WENDY W. An integrated health-science core library for physicians, nurses, and allied health practitioners in community hospitals. New Engl. J. Med. 283: 1489-98, Dec. 31, 1970.

Cataloging Costs with CATLINE: A Follow-up Study ROCHELLE BOCK, Reference/Catalog Librarian ROBERT M. BRAUDE, Librarian MARGARET BUTKONICH, Head of Serials

Denison Memorial Librar. UniversitY of Colorado Medical Center

Denver, Colorado A STUDY of the costs of cataloging and card production was undertaken at the Denison 414

Memorial Library, University of Colorado Medical Center, in June-July 1973 [1]. Since CATLINE was not completely operational at that time, it was not possible to measure the effects of that system on cataloging costs. Consequently we replicated the study in June-July 1974 to determine the costs of cataloging and card production using CATLINE as a source of' bibliographic data. We encountered problems from the outset since the National Library of' Medicine (NLM) was in the process of' converting from ELHILL 2 to ELHILL 3 programs during this time. Although CATLINE was available, there was a greater frequency of' downtime, increased difficulties with the log-in procedure, delays in response time, and an apparent slowing of' updates to the file. For this reason we terminated the study before the total projected sample size was reached. The sample included 232 items. The data enabled us to complete the original study, and were of sufficient interest to warrant comment here. We used the same method as that reported in the previous study [1], except that bibliographic searching was done via CATLINE instead of consulting Current Catalog Proof Sheets. The results are shown in Table 1 along with the results f'rom the f'irst study. The total unit cost found during the CATLINE study was signif'icantly greater than the cost of' either of the other two methods. This was true even though the percentage of original cataloging dropped from 50%' in the first study to 43% in this one, and cataloging with NLM copy went up from 46.2%r to 55.6%T. (The corresponding figures for LC cataloging in publication (CIP) information were 3.8%T and 1.3% ) Only personnel and direct computer connect time costs were calculated for the CATLINE method. There are several reasons that would explain the results reported in Table 1. A change in personnel occurred between the two studies and the individual differences between catalogers af'fected cataloging time. Another factor was the format of the CATLINE printout which requires more cataloger time to edit than does the Current Catalog Proof Sheet format. With a CATLINE printout, the cataloger must rewrite the data before giving them to a technical assistant; with Proof Sheets, the cataloger can Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(4) Oct. 1975