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A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship : from John Shaw Billings to the digital era
Title
A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship : from John Shaw Billings to the digital era / Michael R. Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.
ISBN
9781538118818
1538118815
9781538118825
Publication
Lanham, Maryland, Boulder, New York, London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Physical Description
xxii, 341 pages : illustrations, ports., map ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book covers the history of medical libraries and librarianship from the founding of the Medical Library Association in 1898 to today. The authors present the different stages in the evolution of health science librarianship and conclude with a discussion of the new, digital era of health science libraries"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Kronenfeld, Michael R. History of medical libraries and medical librarianship Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 03, 2021
Series
Medical Library Association books
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Era of the Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw Billing: 1836-1898
The Era of the Gentleman Physician Librarian: 1898 to 1945
The Era of the Development of the Clinical Research Infrastructure (NIH), the Rapid Expansion in Funded and Published Clinical Research and the Emergence of Medical Librarianship as a Profession: 1945-1962
The Era of the Development of the National Library of Medicine, Online digital Subject Searching (Medline) and the Creation of the Health Science Library Infrastructure: 1962-1975
The Medline Era: A Golden Age for Medical Libraries: 1975-1995
The Era of Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to Digitally Based Medical Libraries: 1995-2015
The Era of the Digital Health Sciences Library: 2015-.
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