摘要:As an educational institution the library is involved in the dynamic process of diffusing knowledge. Compiling bibliographies has long been recognized by librarians as one method for disseminating intellectual resources. However, in actual practice some libraries provided rather limited bibliographic service when searching was a manual process. With the advent of on-line computer-assisted searching, libraries could offer service to more people, provide more comprehensive bibliographies by searching data bases, or produce more relevant bibliographies by selecting the most appropriate data base. This has been the experience at the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library.