The hospital library profile as an evaluation mechanism

The authors present a profile designed for use in evaluation of the Community and State Services Program of Tomkins-McCaw Library, Medical College of Virginia.Twenty-five community hospitals are participating in the program. For each a profile has been prepared, giving statistical information about the hospital and its library, a complete record of participation in the several parts of the program and other relevant information. Compositely, these profiles provide data used in assessing the value of various activities of the project and provide a reliable base on which activities of the project will be built. Services included in the project are discussed briefly and its two-year history reviewed.