Foreword. Information Transfer: New Age - New Ways. I. Medical Information: a World in Evolution. II. New Technology in Information Transfer. III. Implications of Information and Information Transfer. 1: Scientific Communication. 1.1. Communication. 1.2. Quality Assurance. 2: Librarianship. 2.1. Education and Responsibility. 2.2. Users and their Needs. 2.3. End-User Training. 3: Medical Libraries. 3.1. National Cooperation. 3.2. Library Cooperation. 3.3. International Cooperation. 4: Library Services. 4.1. A Changing World. 4.2. New Methods. 4.3. New Services. 5: New Technologies. 5.1. New Challenges. 5.2. Database Services. 5.3. CD-ROM. 5.4. Interfaces. 5.5. Networking. 6: Specialty Libraries. 6.1. Information in the Pharmaceutical Industry. 6.2. History of Medicine. 6.3. Nursing and Allied Health Libraries. 6.4. Oncology Libraries. 6.5. Libraries and Documentation Centres. Alphabetic Index of Contributing Authors. Alphabetic Index of Keywords.