Deset godina sistema biomedicinskog naučnog informiranja (SBMNI) u Bosni i Hercegovini
A ten-year period (1981-1991) of development of library and information services in Bosnia and Herzegovina, within System of biomedical scientific information (SBMNI) is reviewed. A short history of the System, and its major achievements are described (data bases Biomedicina Iugoslavica, Katalog medicinske periodike, Online uzajamni katalog, Jugoslovenska biomedicinska periodika; online access to biomedical data bases mounted on world information systems; more efficacious and effective interlibrary loan and communication using electronic mail). Fifteen biomedical libraries from Bosnia and Herzegovina were participating in the System; their activities were co-ordinated by Library of Internal Medicine in Sarajevo. However, in spite of the significant progress, biomedical scientific information was not satisfactory, in the first place owing to the insufficient infrastructure of library and information services, and lack of financial support for the co-ordinating library. At the end of the first decade, more intensive participation of all biomedical libraries within SBMNI was a crucial condition for adequate scientific information in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, further development was brutally interrupted in 1992, when the war started.