A Medical Tape‐Slide Library

Abstract

Abstract Audiotape with slides is a very cheap and flexible teaching aid. This article describes a medical lending library service using tape‐slide programs which started in a very small way 17 years ago and which has grown into a large concern handling some 20,000 tapes a year. The service is partly supported by grants from the Department of Health and Social Security and supplies teaching material to doctors, nurses and a wide variety of paramedical workers. Its honorary directors, John and Valerie Graves, attribute its success to the suitability of tape and slides for lending library work with a rapid turnover, and to the simplicity of the software, which can be used on any ordinary domestic playback equipment. Tape‐slide programs are suitable for individual study in carrels in libraries, or for small discussion groups.