A history of medical libraries and medical librarianship : from John Shaw Billings to the digital era / Michael R. Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kronenfeld, Michael R., author.

Kronenfeld, Jennie J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical libraries--United States--History.

Medical libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

©2021

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.

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-.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781538118825