Abstract
THE Rockefeller Foundation has made an appropriation to the Royal Society of Medicine of a sum not exceeding £61,725, for capital expenditure and tapering maintenance over four years, to enable the Society to establish a Central Medical Library Bureau. The immediate function of this organisation is to assist in the rehabilitation of medical libraries on the Continent which have suffered through deprivation or devastation, and its long-term function the exchange of scientific medical information between individuals and institutions. The method to be employed initially is the use of microfilm ; but microfilm will only be supplied so long as the Society is satisfied that journals needed are unobtainable in their original form. A number of the best microfilm readers obtainable will be purchased by the Society and lent to participating institutions. The scheme approved by the Rockefeller Foundation envisages that while the work of rehabilitation is being carried on, interchange of information between medical libraries will be developed into a permanently functioning scheme which can continue to operate when rehabilitation is completed. Thus the more permanent function of the Central Medical Library Bureau will be gradually established, and the subscriptions of individuals and of associated libraries should enable the Society to continue the service without further assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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