A regional medical library network.
The raison d'être for cooperative networks is discussed, and the development of the SUNY Biomedical Communication Network is traced briefly; a description of the system and its products is given. The cooperative cataloging program engaged in with the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine and the National Library of Medicine is described, as are the efforts of the Network in the production of regional and state-wide union lists of serials.
D002376:Cataloging; D003201:Computers; D007256:Information Systems; D007379:Interlibrary Loans; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009518:New York; D014481:United States