HOSPITAL LIBRARIES: THE STATE OF THE ART Available to Purchase

THE PATTERN OF LIBRARY PROVISION in hospitals in this country has for over half a century followed the traditional double‐track of one service for medical staff and a second for patients. Medical libraries range from the great teaching and research collections to the handful of basic works and journals; it is probable that every hospital would claim to have a collection of medical literature: a library. Not all hospitals provide books for patients, possibly three out of four, but many of those that do extend the patients' library service to members of hospital staff.