Japan Medical Library Association Research Articles

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わが国の生物医学分野における相互貸借ネットワークの現状

わが国の生物医学分野における相互貸借ネットワークの現状

『医学洋書総合目録』の誕生

The Japan Medical Library Association was established in 1927, and its major role is interlibrary loan activities. Arranging the “Union Catalog” of journals and books (holdings list), which is based on the interlibrary loan activities, is one of the basic tasks of the Association. As for the “Union Catalog” of foreign medical books, a total of eight volumes of the “Union Catalogue of Foreign Books in the Libraries of Japanese Medical Schools” was published from 1949 to 1956. This so-called “Union Catalog” has been edited by using a computer from 1977 up to the present. This study reports the history of the “Union Catalog.”

「医学洋書総合目録」の誕生 ユニオン・カタログ小史

The Japan Medical Library Association was established in 1927, and its major role is interlibrary loan activities. Arranging the “Union Catalog” of journals and books (holdings list), which is based on the interlibrary loan activities, is one of the basic tasks of the Association. As for the “Union Catalog” of foreign medical books, a total of eight volumes of the “Union Catalogue of Foreign Books in the Libraries of Japanese Medical Schools” were published from 1949 to 1956. This so-called “Union Catalog” has been edited by using a computer from 1977 up to the present. This study reports the history of the “Union Catalog.”

医学分野のオンライン書誌情報検索の現状と問題点

Concerning the state of usage on online retrieval during April, 1982 to March, 1983 in members of the Japan Medical Library Association, numbers of libraries by the total numbers of queries, usage time, online print, basic charge, retrieval fee, retrieval systems used, and average number of use of database, search time, online print, retrieval fee are comparatively studied. The problems on retrieval process, databases, the role and training of searcher, and effects on libraries by online retrieval are also discussed.

「医学図書館」読者アンケートの集計報告

An Igaku Toshokan readers inquiry was made in January 1983. From the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) 300 librarians were picked and 100 other non-JMLA subscribers including hospitals, companies, etc., were also sampled. Of the 400 samples, 301 (75.3%) responded. The study items are: 1) Does the reader read every issue of Igaku Toshokan? 2) Why does he/she read it? Or why not? 3) Is the subscription rate reasonable? 4) Best articles published in 1981 and 1982. 5) Columns most read 6) What article themes does he/she want to read? 7) What types of articles does he/she want to read? 8) Comments. The findings are: Articles on library mechanization, job analysis, secondary materials and online searching are most appreciated; articles on case reports, and on lectures are welcomed; book reviews and Q & A are eagerly read. It seems that readers want to read not only library and information sciences articles but also broad popular writings on medical basics.

国際医学図書館会議の歩み

In anticipation of the coming Tokyo meeting of the 5th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML) in 1985, the past four congresses of the ICML are summarized. This report was presented to the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA), which is to be the host of the 5th ICML, by the Executive Director of the JMLA. Analyzing the current status of medical information activities, the reporter points out the change of the term medical information to health information, the development of topics on consumer health information and primary health care, and the increase of the social responsibility of medical institute libraries. Behind this new wave, the reporter stated that there are the world-wide activities of the U. S. National Library of Medicine and the World Health Organization, as well as the health sciences information needs of the developing countries, which account for 90 percent or more of the world population.

日本医学図書館協会の50年とわたくし

The paper describes how the author became interested in medical libraries in the University of Tokyo and later in the 50 years' development of the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) of which he became president later. After the World War II, the Association suffered various difficulties as the country under occupation. During that period JMLA was much indebted to the Public Health and Welfare Section (PHW) of the Occupation Army, who kindly donated to JMLA member libraries a large number of medical books and periodicals published during the war. Moreover, free photocopy service of medical articles not available in Japan was offered by the Army Medical Library (AML). Mr. Joseph Groesbeck of AML was dispatched in 1948 and played an active part in this matter. In the same period the president and executives of the American Medical Association (AMA) came to Japan and built up a firm partnership. As the result the American physicians sent to JMLA a great number of used medical journals. In 1950, PHW sent the author to U.S.A. as a member of the Japanese national leader group. As a result friendly contributions were made from U. S. A. to JMLA. A new central medical library was established in the University of Tokyo in November 1961. One half of the total sum of expenditure was donated by the China Medical Board (CMB). This became a model of contemporary medical libraries-in Japanese universities. The author played a role in the negotiation with CMB in this matter. He became the first president of the new Medical Library. In the next year the author retired due to the age limit and in October of the same year also retired from the presidency of JMLA he had served since 1955. In June 1963, seven librarians attended the second International Congress of Medical Librarianship and the author acted as their leader. The travel expense and entry fees was officially supported by U. S. A. authorities. In closing the author stresses the important role in the future of medical library activities in Japan.

華文誌，韓文誌の取り扱いについて 現行医学雑誌所在目録における変遷と変更

For many years, Chinese and Korean periodical titles have been intermixed in their section of the List of Current Periodicals Acquired by the Japanese Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Libraries which is annually published by the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA). But because of some differences of their language characteristics, periodical titles in those two languages should be separately cataloged and listed in each section of the List. Here were historically reviewed their editorial policies and their compilation in JMLA, and were surveyed their listing varieties in catalogs of several institutions. Based on those surveys, the former compiler (Showa University Library) and the present compiler (Medical librarians group in the Tokai region) present a new policy to change the intermixtural compilation of Chinese and Korean periodical titles, and the new policy was appeared in the 1982 edition of the List.

関東及び近畿地区における病院図書室 病院図書室の展望

There are about 8, 500 hospitals in Japan. However, major organizations in the health sciences library field, such as the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA), the Japan Hospital Library Association (JHLA), and the Association of Kinki Hospital Libraries (AKHL) are not fully aware of the present situation of the individual hospital libraries. Therefore the author conducted a survey of JHLA in the fall of 1980 and AKHL in the summer of 1981. The survey concentrates on the following: 1) type of hospital and library floor space, 2) library facilities, 3) library manpower, 4) library holdings, 5) library budget, 6) library users, 7) library publications, 8) reference service, and 9) clinical medical librarian service. Using this data, she discusses both the present status and future prospects of hospital libraries in Japan. She offers two suggestions:1) the establishment of a consortium based on biomedical information centers throughout Japan, and 2) strengthening the positions of libraries in hospitals and the development of diverse library activities such as “Team-Care” and “LATCH” (Literature Attached to Chart).

中国四国地方における病院図書室の実態

Information activities of hospital libraries in the Districts of Chugoku and Shikoku are reported. 219 hospitals were sent questionnaires from August to October 1980, and 146 hospitals (66.6%) of which responded. Major findings are: (1) 128 hospitals have libraries, 17 of which have the full-time staffs. (2) Maximum number of books held is 20, 000 volumes, the minimum 100, and the average about 2, 600. (3) Number of serials received is 300 titles to 2 titles. (4) Annual budget for books scatter from 9, 500, 000 yen to 50, 000 yen and the average is 1, 820, 000 yen. (5) 112 hospital libraries responded that their patron doctors meet, though not too sufficiently, their information needs by any way. However, the number of libraries which gain the informations through the interlibrary loan systems from university libraries is 13. (6) The Japan Medical Library Association is not known by 88 hospital libraries (60%) at all. (7) 33 hospital libraries write some comments, in which a common demand is more helps from medical school libraries to small libraries.

医学情報の流通と病院図書室

Nowadays the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) is confronted by the problem how to make up the information network including hospital libraries. A brief review of the historical activities of JMLA tells us that the association has been much purified as an organization principally consisting of libraries affiliated to medical schools. In order to cope with the growing demand for the medical information from those who are engaged in the medical service, a more general system such as the National Scientific Information System promoted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture should be taken into due consideration. Within that framework, hospital libraries are not regarded as information agencies but as users of medical libraries like other individual practitioners. The membership system of JMLA must be examined from other points of view than that of the information network.

日本医学図書館協会相互貸借業務の現状と課題 相互貸借業務実態調査報告の概要

Interlibrary loan operations of the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) were inquired in April 1980 and the report of the results was presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association on October 1980. The author, an ex-chairman of the Inquirery Committee, summarizes the report, and also points out the urgent problems which the JMLA faces, such as a plan of a national biomedical information center, formation of networks between other library associations, and a rapid progress of information dissemination technology.

日本医学図書館協会前向き推進の再認識 (2)

The author, who has taken part in the activities of the Japan Medical Library Association (JMLA) for many years and now retired, looks backs on the course of JMLA which has confronted with difficulties from its foundation to the post-World War II period. In particular, realized reduction of the price on German periodicals, publication of Union Catalogs are discussed.

加盟館統計からみた国立大学医学図書館の実体側面

The Annual Statistics of Japan Medical Library Association is one of the useful materials to grasp the tendency of medical libraries in Japan.In order to make a guidepost for the management of our library the author tried to analyse the 50th Annual Statistics (1979), laying stress on the funds for books and periodicals in medical libraries of the national universities.

The netwrok of hospital library service

There were 132,479 doctors in Japan in 1975. Of these about 19,000 were working either in the medical schools or in their affiliated hospitals, and about 47,000 were working in other public hospitals. While these 19,000 were enjoying fairly good library services of the medical schools with the best inter-library loan service network in Japan (about 20,000 transactions in 1975), provided by the Japan Medical Library Association, 47,000 doctors working in the public hospitals were suffering from much inferior library service. There have been several surveys conducted by various groups to find out the situation of hospital medical libraries in this country. The most recent one is the survey made by the Hospital Library Group of the Japan Hospital Association in 1977. According to the Hospital Directory 1976, there were 8,188 hospitals (with more than 20 beds) existed in this country. Of these, 2,000 belong to the Association. The Association sent to all its members a questionnaire to find out about their hospital libraries' situations such as, size, organization, budget, collection, staff and training activties, etc. Responsis were received from 268 hospitals (16%). More than a half (57.7%) of these hospitals had independent library quarters. Some were sharing a room with the medical record section. About 78% of all 268 hospitals had annual budget which falls somewhere between 1 million yen to 3 million yen. This insufficient budget situation reflected on the total number of current periodicals they were subscribing. Nearly 60% of these 268 hospitals were subscribing less than 90 periodicals. And only 74 of them had more than one full time library staff. Of these, 15 had more than two. On the other hand, 50 hospitals had no staff definitely assigned to their libraries. The larger hospitals usually had more library staffs and provided better library services with more variation. In the present study, library use by the doctors of public hospitals was examined. Seven faily large hospitals located in Tokyo and in Shizuoka Prefecture were selected, and 10 doctors from each of these hospitals were interviewed. They were using their libraries once or twice in a week in average. Nineteen out of all 70 said they were satisfied with their library service, while 9 said they were not. The rest thought their library services were passable. The most heavily requested matereials were either monographs and textbooks (28.9%) or foreign periodicals (28.1%). They were followed by domestic periodicals and secondary publications such as indexes and abstracts. The most heavily requested service by these doctors was documents providing service (23.6%). That was followed by literature search service (31.9%). The first resource they depended on was the library of their hospital (33.9%). The next one was the library of a medical school located near their hospitals (24.0%). Then, the pharmaceutical companies (19.0%). When they needed to use these medical school libraries, they usually visited there themselves and read books and periodicals in their reading rooms. The doctors who had no medical school libraries near by had to depend on the libraries of the schools they graduated from. In short, the present situation of the hospital lilrary services are not exactly satisfactory and the doctors who are working in these hospitals very often have to depend on medical school libraries near by. However, the Japan Medical Library Association to which all the medical school libraries belong is not willing to extend its service to the doctors who work in public hospitals. To improve present imballanced library service situation in health science fields in Japan, the following measures should be taken: a) each hospital library has to strengthen its collection and service, b) to organize these hospital libraries to be able to provide cooperative services, c) to amalgamate these consortia of hospital libraries to make them become a part of the nation wide medical library network which should be developed by expanding the network of the Japan Medical Library Association.

国立医学図書館 (仮称) と日本医学図書館協会

The Japan Medical Library Association has proposed setting up a National Medical Library (tentatively named) for many years. Here a reviewed its progress and backgrounds.

日本医学図書館協会加盟館員としての責務と要望 (1)

日本医学図書館協会加盟館員としての責務と要望 (1)

機関誌「医学図書館」の在り方

機関誌「医学図書館」の在り方

日本医学図書館協会のあり方

日本医学図書館協会のあり方