The organization of a slide collection in a medical library.

摘要

As IS THE CASE with books and journals, efficient use of audiovisual materials necessitates a good classification or indexing system. Much has been written on this subject, in particular with regard to slide collections, because no one system has yet been devised to accommodate all their unique characteristics. This paper, another contribution toward the more efficient organization of slide collections, is the result of a search for a slide organization system which would provide for the effective retrieval of specialized medical slides without sacrificing too much in terms of indexing cost and time. The Medical Library of the University of Pretoria undertook the development of a system only after it appeared that no system suitable to its needs had been described in the literature.