National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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Meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports pertaining to the Armed Forces Medical Library and National Library of Medicine activities.

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Staff meeting minutes, statements of policy, and reports and writings about the Library and indexing.

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Documents, correspondence, and clippings relating to efforts made by library officials to secure approval and funding for a new library building, 1874-1955, and to legislation creating the National Library of Medicine and the process involved in selecting a building site, 1956-1959.

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Contains correspondence from medical societies and associations.

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Contains material used in the preparation of Austin's bibliography of early American imprints, published in 1961.

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Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine.

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UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Adam's personal files from his tenure as deputy director of the library. Material dates from the late 1950s.

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Nineteen scientists, medical researchers, sociologists and historians were brought together to engage in a "long discussion" structured by clusters of questions formulated by the co-chairs. The agenda explored the post-war interconnections made between American and European clinical investigators, research teams, and institutions that came to represent these "golden years" of biomedical research.

Abstract The suit charged that the libraries had violated the company's copyright by duplicating for interlibrary loan articles from journals published by Williams & Wilkins. The case was settled by a split decision of the Supreme Court upholding the appeals court verdict that found for the government. Included are files from Martin Cummings and Scott Adams, the Director and Deputy Director of the Library, and Albert Berkowitz, the Reference Services Division Section Chief, as well as subject and...

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Material Wyndham Miles accumulated during the course of preparing the history.