title: The role of basic-unit librarians in RML decision making: an evolutionary process.
abstract: Representatives of basic-unit libraries (one per state) with full voting rights were included on the Executive Committee of the Kentucky-Ohio-Michigan Regional Medical Library (RML) Network in 1978, after a three-year effort initiated by hospital librarians in Franklin County, Ohio. This article describes the process that resulted in hospital library participation at all levels of Region V governance, focusing on stages of development, action between the advocate and the administrative structure, and outcome.
mesh_terms: D003253:Consultants; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007992:Libraries, Hospital; D007998:Library Science; D014481:United States