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Teletypewriter Exchange

Teletypewriter Exchange

The Bowman Gray School of Medicine Library and the libraries of six other medical schools in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky tied themselves together for the first time in 1966 by means of a TWX (teletypewriter exchange) network. The combining of the medical school libraries was beneficial in that each one could benefit from the resources that the other libraries owned. To minimize duplication of materials being requested between the participating TWX libraries, a plan was put into place naming certain libraries responsible for certain medical areas. Bowman Gray School of Medicine was responsible in 1966 for the areas of renal physiology, radiology, laboratory animal medicine and the behavioral sciences. This photo shows librarian Virginia Anne Jones and an unidentified physician using the TWX method for requesting materials sometime in the early 1980s. Carpenter Library’s Document Delivery Department still provides requested materials in 2007, although the delivery and query methods are different.

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00/00/2007
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The Bowman Gray School of Medicine Library and the libraries of six other medical schools in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky tied themselves together for the first time in 1966 by means of a TWX (teletypewriter exchange) network. The combining of the medical school libraries was beneficial in that each one could benefit from the resources that the other libraries owned. To minimize duplication of materials being requested between the participating TWX libraries, a plan was put into place naming certain libraries responsible for certain medical areas. Bowman Gray School of Medicine was responsible in 1966 for the areas of renal physiology, radiology, laboratory animal medicine and the behavioral sciences. This photo shows librarian Virginia Anne Jones and an unidentified physician using the TWX method for requesting materials sometime in the early 1980s. Carpenter Library’s Document Delivery Department still provides requested materials in 2007, although the delivery and query methods are different.
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Photoprint
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DF 428
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nbg/obj/nbg_obj_00428, nbg/obj/nbg_obj_00428-th
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Digital Forsyth NBG Objects
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NBG_obj_428
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Coy C. Carpenter Library
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Wake Forest University
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
title
Teletypewriter Exchange
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