Remote access to electronic library services through a campus network

Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1991 Jan;79(1):53-62.

Abstract

The Health Science Library at University of Tennessee (UT), Memphis has taken advantage of a campuswide network for the purpose of providing enhanced access to library services. With a terminal or microcomputer, members of the UT Memphis community can use an electronic menu system to complete photocopy, interlibrary loan, and computer literature search request forms; leave messages or sign up for library workshops; use electronic mail to receive citations and abstracts from computer literature searches; use an electronic bulletin board to scan the library's new acquisitions lists, library hours, services, and policies; and use bibliographic retrieval software to search the library's locally mounted databases. Remote access to library services and electronic resources, which is available twenty-four hours a day, could potentially save users time and the institution money. Remote access, however, is intended to supplement, not to supplant or discourage, in-house library use.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Communication Networks*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / statistics & numerical data
  • Information Systems / statistics & numerical data
  • Interlibrary Loans / statistics & numerical data
  • Libraries, Medical / organization & administration*
  • Library Services / statistics & numerical data*
  • MEDLINE
  • Microcomputers
  • Tennessee
  • Universities