title: Hospital libraries' consortium blunts impact of budget cuts.
abstract: Hospital libraries frequently are faced with increasing costs for journals and other educational resources, increasing demand for continuing education materials by health care professionals, and decreasing budgets to meet these needs. Several medical and hospital libraries in Illinois are providing continued, and possibly improved, services under budgetary constraints through a consortium that emphasizes sharing of resources, interlibrary loans, librarian consultation services, and cost-saving projects.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002641:Chicago; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000191:economics; D007379:Interlibrary Loans; D007992:Libraries, Hospital; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D012041:Regional Medical Programs