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A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship - From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era (Hardcover)
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A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship - From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era (Hardcover)
Series: Medical Library Association Books Series
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A History of Medical Libraries and Librarianship in the United
States: From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era presents a
history of the profession from the beginnings of the Army Surgeon
General's Library in 1836 to today's era of the digital health
sciences library. The purpose of this book is not only to make this
history available to the profession's practitioners, but also to
provide context as medical librarians and libraries enter a new age
in their history as the digital information environment has
undercut the medical library's previous role as the depository of
the print based KBI/information base. The book divides the
profession's history is divided into seven eras: 1. The Era of the
Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw
Billings - 1836 - 1898 2. The Era of the Gentleman Physician
Librarian - 1898 to 1945 3. 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 4. The Era of the
Development of the National Library of Medicine, Online digital
Subject Searching (Medline) and the Creation of the National Health
Science Library Infrastructure- 1962 - 1975 5. The Medline Era - A
Golden Age for Medical Libraries - 1975 - 1995 6. The Era of
Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to
Digitally Based Medical Libraries - 1995 - 2015 7. The Era of the
Digital Health Sciences Library - 2015 - Each era is reviewed
through discussing the developments in the field and the factors
which drove those developments. The book will provide current and
future medical librarians and information specialists an
understanding of the development of their profession and some
insights into its future.
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