Michael R. Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

A History of Medical Libraries and Medical Librarianship

From John Shaw Billings to the Digital Era

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Medical Library Association Books Series
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9781538118818
• ISBN-10: 1538118815
• Artikelnr.: 60412463

Autorenporträt

By Michael R. Kronenfeld and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1
The Era of the Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw Billings
1836
1898 Chapter 2
The Era of the Gentleman Physician Librarian
1898 to 1945 Chapter 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 Chapter 4
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 Chapter 5
The Medline Era
A Golden Age for Medical Libraries
1975
1995 Chapter 6
The Era of Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to Digitally Based Medical Libraries
1995
2015 Chapter 7
The Era of the Digital Health Sciences Library
2015
Bibliography