NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE'S FOREIGN PROCUREMENT PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 16, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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~ffigbXemorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
IA Library
OC IB
DATE: August 16, 1962
FROM : Chief, Technical Services Division
National Library of Medicine
SUBJECT: National Library of Medicinets Foreign
Procurement Program
The National Library of Medicine collects comprehensively
in the field of medicine. A short statement of the collecting
scope is presented as Attachment One.
Material is acquired by purchase, exchange, and gift solicita-
tion. The latest available analysis of purchases by country
is that for Fiscal Year 1960, on which the geographic break-
down which follows is based, except in the case of Japan, for
which Fiscal Year 1962 figures were available.
BOOKS
COST
SERIALS
COST
Western
Europe
2,366
$10,800
1,980
$14,500
British
Isles
408
22200
408
3,300
Canada
200
208
32
230
Latin
America
1+66
19200
200
1,440
Japan
390
1,850
145
1,150
India
320
280
113
260
Eastern
Europe
946
1,320
136
695
The figures for Eastern Europe do not include the purchases of
the publications Procurement Officer in Moscow. In Fiscal Year
1962 some 1,250 books were received from the Soviet Union.
The Publications Procurement officer supplied about half of
these at a cost of about a dollar a book. Another hundred
came from the dealers, 347 were received from gift and exchange
sources, and 189 as transfers from the Library of Congress.
Sixty Russian journals are received on exchange.
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In the other countries of eastern Europe exchanges are a
principal source of material. The most important insitu-
tions are the Vassil Kolaro State Library in Sofia, whence
660 books were received in Fiscal Year 1962 and the Princi-
pal Medical Library in Warsaw which sent 162 books.
Throughout the world the Library has some thousand active
institutional exchange contacts. For substantive journals
the most important exchange item is the Index Medicus, which,
for this purpose, goes to 879 foreign addresses. The
geographic breakdown is as follows:
Western Europe
302
Eastern Europe outside USSR
97
USSR
12
The British Isles
51
Latin America
240
Africa south of Sahara
11
North Africa
8
Japan
83
South Asia
13
Near East
25
Canada
12
Australia & New Zealand
15
Ten other addresses are located in Korea, Philippines,
Formosa, Hong Kong, French Guiana, and Iceland.
Also used for exchange purposes are Public Health Service
publications, the monthly "Vital Statistics", and surplus
books.
Gifts, solicited and unsolicited, constitute an important
part of the Library's accessions, but the separate count is
not available. Theses from foreign universities are received
without specific solicitation but usually on the basis of a
general exchange agreement. In Fiscal Year 1962 over 2,000
were received, all from Europe except for 29 from Sao Paulo.
SAMUEL LAZEROW
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