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TABLE 1 COMPARISON OF UNIT COSTS FOR EACH METHOD OF PROCESSING

In-Libry method

Purchasedcard method

CATLINE

Cataloging .................................................... Card production .................................................. ................................................ Book preparation .

$0.26 1.33 0.62 0.63

$0.31 0.66 1.08 0.63

$0.28 1.67 0.62 0.63

Total unit cost ...........................

2.84

2.68

3.20

Explanation

Bibliographic Searching ...........................................

edit the copy directly without rewriting it. A third factor was the greater time used in bibliographic searching via CATLINE owing to the conversion problems previouslv mentioned. An additional factor of interest, which probably kept the costs down, was the increase in CIP data available for the second study. In the first study CIP information was available for 11.3% of the items, while in this study 28.3%c had CIP data. The availability of CIP information printed in the items to be cataloged was undoubtedly a significant factor in terms of cost and in the percentage of original cataloging required. Although the results of this brief study indicate higher costs when CATLINE is used, other factors should be considered before a final judgment of CATLINE's utility can be made. There are several direct benefits to be gained by using CATLINE that are not available from other sources of bibliographic data. A variety of different access points are available for entry into CATLINE, whereas the Proof Sheets are accessible only by main entry. The data base is cumulative, thus providing the convenience of single file searching. And the potential for currency for the CATLINE data file promises to provide catalogers with the most up-to-date cataloging information available. Additional benefits, while not directly related to the purposes of this study, were also noted. CATLINE is a comprehensive file containing entries for all works cataloged at NLM compared to the Proof Sheets, which describe only English language monographs with imprint dates for the most recent two years. Finally, the cumulative nature of CATLINE provides the Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(4) Oct. 1975

cataloger with extended visibility and allows for greater consistency in cataloging by providing a display of all works within a particular classification area or under specific subject headings. These factors must be taken into consideration before a library reaches a decision on the value of CATLINE. Each library must examine its own cataloging operation and determine whether or not the benefits received justify the additional cost. REFERENCE 1.

BUTKOV ICH. MARGARET,

AND BRAUDE, ROBERT M. Cost-performance analysis of cataloging and card production in a medical center library. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63: 29-34, Jan. 1975.

Past Presidents I Have Known* By SUSAN CRAWFORD, PH.D., Director

Division of Library and Archival Services American Medical Association Chicago, Illinois

A PROFESSION, as most social svstems, usually requires that an initiate undergo entry rites. So it is in medical librarianship, although in later years we tend to repress the anxieties of initiation. In 1960, I was in this position, having been appointed Director of the American Medical Association Library. My first assignment was to visit major medical libraries in order to derive an overview of bio* This is a continuation of Mr. Keys' series on Past Presidents. As he was reluctant to write about himself, I gladly obliged with the cooperation of Mildred C. Langner, Jack D. Key, and Warren Albert.

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medical communication and to lay plans for a program at the association. I crossed the country and met librarians from medical schools, societies, hospitals, and industry. After one stormy journey on a single-engine plane from Chicago's Midway, I finally reached Rochester, Minnesota. The passengers were quite shaken, and I clearly remember one man's dismay in finding that he was in Minnesota, rather than New York. Feeling ill, I pulled myself together to find the Librarian of the Mayo Clinic. When we met, he extended his hand and said simply, "I am Tom Keys." Between the lines, he communicated, "Welcome to the profession, and if there is anything I can do to help you, I shall be happy-and I mean it." Over the years, the warmth of this friendship has continued and, with others, I was allowed to grow from an equivocating newcomer to an embattled and wiser administrator. Tom Keys' career is many faceted, and he is known for his roles of librarian, historian, teacher, and author. Over the years, he developed the Mayo Clinic Library into a "celebrated repository of medical and scientific knowledge," [1 ] with one of the finest rare book collections in the world. As educator, he lectured to numerous societies here and abroad, highlighted by a seminar tour from Japan through Taiwan, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia in 1961. In 1969, he was appointed Professor of Medical History in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, University of

Minnesota, Rochester, Minnesota. Looking over Tom's bibliography of 138 items, one has the feeling that nothing is new. His writings encompass the history of medicine, library education, audiovisual media, and medical librarianship. He authored Cardiac Classics with F. A. Willius (1941); The History of Surgical Anesthesia (1945); and Foundations of Anesthesiology with A. Faulconer (1965). During the years 1942-45, he served as Editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. His Applied Medical Library Practice (1958) was for years a guide for medical librarians, covering both theory and applications. The profession has bestowed upon Tom its highest offices, including President of the Medical Library Association (1957/58). He served as a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (1959-62). In 1966, he received the Marcia C. Noyes Award for outstanding achievement in medical librarianship, the highest award given by the Medical Library Association (Fig. 1), and upon his retirement, honorary membership. Outside the library profession, his achievements are also well recognized. He began early as a Carnegie Fellow (University of Chicago, 1932) and a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar (Beloit College, 1948). After four years in the U.S. Army, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and awarded the Army Commendation Ribbon of the U.S. Army Surgeon General. Finally, his Alma Mater, Beloit College bestowed upon him

FIG. 1-Thomas E. Keys accepting the Marcia C. Noyes Award from Pauline Duffield at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association held in Boston, 1966.

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the honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1972, citing "Your lifelong commitment to excellence and innovation in your chosen career has helped in large part to create one of the world's greatest medical libraries and has won for you national distinction in the library profession" [2]. Tom Keys has lived over an era of great social change-his career spanned forty-two productive years. Thirty-eight of these were spent at the Mayo Clinic Library, a setting which combines the elegance of Ivy League with the fast pace of Midwest. Here he has worked and passed the years with his charming wife Betty and his two sons in a home specially designed for him by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Tom's colleague. Herman Henkle, then Librarian of the John Crerar Librarv, was moved to remark wistfully and half to himself one evening, as he viewed the movement of Chicago, "He had the best of two worlds."

Sciences Libraries (CAHSL). CAHSL memberships include thirtv-five insitutions and nineteen individuals; there are seven associate members and one honorary member. Minimal quantitative guidelines developed by the Library Services Division and its Advisory Committee in 1970 [1 ], revised in 1973 [2 ], provided the basis for improvement in the quality of library services in these institutions. To supplement these guidelines, the Standards TABLE 1 STANDARDS FOR HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARIES

The library shall meet the needs of the entire institution and provide library service to all members of the hospital community. Administration The library shall be a department of'the institution, directly responsible to the hospital administration. There shall be an adequate budget for the library department. There shall be a policy and procedures manual for REFERENCES the library. 1. MAYO CLINIC. New Emeritus Members of the Staff'. Staff'ing Rochester, Minn.. 1972. p. 11. Staffing coverage of the library shall be commensu2. UPTON, M. Citation [upon presentation of degree of' rate with institutional needs. of' 17, 1972. Apr. Doctor Science ]. The librarian shall be an employee of the hospital whose sole responsibility is library service. Connecticut Association of Health SciThe librarian shall be freed and compensated for ences Libraries: Standards and Checkattendance at professional meetings and continulist for Health Sciences Libraries ing education programs. Services The library shall be accessible at all times. By THE STANDARDS COMMITTEE, The library collection shall reflect the services and CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH SCIENCE educational programs of the institution. LIBRARIES* The library collection shall contain all manner of' resource material, print and non-print. The library shall provide reference service and BASED on a pre-Regional Medical Program interlibrarv loan service, compile bibliographies. survey which indicated that library services in check citations, provide selective dissemination of information, and conduct library orientations. Connecticut community hospitals and health The library shall be responsible for going outside care institutions were minimal or nonexistent, a the institution to supplement the aforementioned Librarv Service Division to be headed by a services. created was by professional library consultant The library shall be used exclusively for library the Connecticut Regional Medical Program in purposes. shall be located for the convenience of' early 1969. the maximum number of' users, shall have adeEducational programs sponsored by the Liquate space for users, staff and collection, with brary Service Division encouraged a spirit of f'uture growth capability. cooperation among librarians from these instiThe library shall assume a responsible role as a member of the Biomedical Communications Nettutions, which resulted in 1973 in the formation work and shall endeavor to cooperate with other of the Connecticut Association of Health institutions in the community for the purpose of * supporting the dissemination of'health care inforCommittee members are Joan Ash, Liz Algosis, mation. Margaret Moylan. Nan Van Derwerker. Maryanne Witters, and Jean Fuller, Chairman. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 63(4) Oct. 1975

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