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The National Librarians of Medicine and Their Predecessors
Did you know that Walter Reed was once a librarian at the National Library of Medicine? This book looks at the twenty-seven men and women who headed the National Library of Medicine. In its early years, the library was known as the Library of the Surgeon General s Office, and from 1836 to 1865 the Army Surgeon General acted in dual capacity as surgeon and librarian. The first person to hold this dual position (albeit informally) was Joseph Lovell, who began the library by purchasing copies of medical books for his own use. After Lovell died in 1836, his interim successor, Benjamin King, started the process of turning Lovell's collection into a formal library, which grew to become the Nationa...
Wyndham Miles NIH Oral History Collection
The collection contains 74 interviews with significant figures in the early history and development of the NIH. Each interviewee has at minimum an interview abstract and in most every case, also biographical information such as a curriculum vitae, list of publications, obituary, and clippings from newspapers, NIH publications, or other printed sources. Full transcriptions of interviews exists for many persons. Each entry in the finding aid contains a note as to whether an abstract or transcript exists for that person. Two extra tapes are included: James Shannon's farewell address to NIH; a Wallace P. Rowe Rockefeller Awards speech.
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