AUSTRALIAN doctors treating victims of the Bali bomb blast received emergency assistance from the British Library near Wetherby.
Night staff at the library, in Boston Spa, responded to a call early yesterday from a hospital in Melbourne which was desperately searching for an article on blast injuries.
They extracted the journal from the site's 130km of shelving within five minutes, and scanned and sent the article to the hospital via the internet by 3.20am - only 20 minutes after the call.
The article was The Management of Blast Injury by L.M. Guzzi and G Argyros from a 1996 edition of the European Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Natalie Ceeney, Operations and Services Director at the British Library, said: "This case underlines the vital importance of an information resource like the British Library.
This is not the first time the library has helped in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
Staff received several requests from Florida, US, following the anthrax postal attacks last year and several articles about the disease were sent out to journalists.
Updated: 10:55 Saturday, October 19, 2002
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