History: Late 20th Century

• NLM, 1960s: Too much loaning (over-centralized around NLM!)

• Creation of Regional Medical Libraries (RMLs) to support regional independence for access to medical knowledge (1965)

• NLM, 1970s-1980s:

  • SERLINE: Union list of medical serials
  • SERHOLD: Union list of library holdings of medical serials
  • DOCLINE (1985): Automated document ordering and routing