ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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BIOMEDICAL TW X, NEW YORK
Ten members of the Medical Library Center 

of New York are now linked, with MLC and 
with each other, in a TWX communications 
network which began transmission of messages 
on May 1. With the exception of the tele­
typewriter in the New York Academy of Medi­
cine, which was supplied by the state of New 
York, the equipment installation and monthly 
rental fees are paid by the Medical Library 
Center; the individual libraries pay their own 
transmission charges. Thus far, the TWX net­
work includes only the sponsoring members of 
the Medical Library Center. In addition to 
the New York Academy of Medicine these are 
the medical libraries of Columbia University, 
and Cornell University, Albert Einstein College 
of Medicine, New York Medical College, New 
Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, 
Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Ketter­
ing Cancer Center, and Mount Sinai Hospital 
Jacobi library.

The New York Academy of Medicine has 
been designated the resource library for ma­
terials on medicine and psychology under the 
State of New York’s Reference and Research 
Resources Program. The state has entered into 
contract with eleven major research libraries 
—eight subject and three area referral centers. 
The resource libraries are linked by tele­
type to the state library, which serves as a 
switching center for requests for materials not 
supplied locally through public library systems. 
The contract permits reimbursement by the 
State of New York for each request filled by 
the resource library and provides, as well, for 
partial payment for the processing of unfilled 
requests. The resource payment for the pro­
cessing of unfilled requests. The resource li­
brary has the option of honoring requests by 
lending the physical volume or providing photo­
copy.

The TWX installations facilitate interlibrary 
loan transactions not only in New York City 
and New York State, but provide another 
means of communication between medical li­
braries in New York City and those in other 
parts of the country. The call numbers of the 
MLC network were assigned too late to be 
included in the 1967 TWX Directory, but a 
list of them may be obtained from Mrs. Jacque­
line W. Felter, Acting Director, Medical Li­
brary Center of New York, 17 East 102nd 
Street, New York, N.Y. 10029. ■ ■

ACRL Membership, June 30, 1967 11,614

ACRL Membership, July 31, 1966 10,528

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North; Junior College Libraries Section, Mrs. Alice B. 
Griffith; Rare Books Section, Lawrence S. Thompson; 
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come); Slavic and East European Subsection, Jerzy 
(George) J. Maciuszko; University Libraries Section, 
Stuart Forth.
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