title: OCLC book interlibrary loan in a basic-unit hospital library: one year's experience.
abstract: Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Medical Library, a "basic-unit" medical library (i.e., not a resource library) in the Regional Medical Library Program recently completed one year of borrowing and lending books using OCLC. Of the books successfully borrowed through OCLC, 79% were obtained from nonmedical libraries. Forming cost-sharing OCLC clusters among basic units makes OCLC an affordable alternative to borrowing books from overburdened medical resource libraries.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007379:Interlibrary Loans / Q000379:methods*; D007992:Libraries, Hospital; D009862:Online Systems