William D. Mayer Walsh McDermott John P. McGovern Maj. Gen. Joseph H. McNinch John W. Mehl Doris H. Merritt President, Eastern Virginia Medical Authority Professor and Chairman, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Cornell University Medical Center Professor and Chairman, Department of History of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Chief Medical Director, VA and Former Director, NLM Acting Director, Division for Biological and Medical Sciences, NSF Dean, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Indiana-Purdue University at 1980-1984 1964-1968 1970-1974 Chairman: 1973-1974 1963-1965 1973 1978-1980 Max Michael, Jr. Indianapolis Executive Director, Jacksonville Hospitals 1968-1972 William S. Middleton Charles E. Molnar L. Quincy Mumford Lt. Gen. Paul W. Myers Julius B. Richmond Cecil G. Sheps Educational Programs, Inc. Chief Medical Director, VA Director, Computer Systems Laboratory and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Electrical Engineering, Department of Physiology, Washington University Librarian of Congress Chief Medical Director, VA Surgeon General, USAF Surgeon General, USAF Surgeon General, USAF Surgeon General, USAF Surgeon General, USA Surgeon General, USAF Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Surgeon General, USPHS Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina 1957-1963 1980-1984 1956-1974 1970-1974 1978 1958-1963 1956-1958 1972-1975 1977 1967-1970 1956-1958 Chairman: 1957-1958 1977-1981 1978-1980 at Chapel Hill SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF THE NATIONAL Library of MEDICINE* 1818 Congress established the permanent Medical Department of the United States Army. Joseph Lovell, appointed Surgeon General, soon began to purchase reference books and journals for his office. Pp. 1 1840 The Library's earliest known list of publications was drawn up, a manuscript notebook entitled "A Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, Washington City, 1840." Pp. 5 1864 The first printed catalog, a pamphlet, listing 485 titles, including about 50 journals, totaling approximately 2,100 volumes, was issued. Pp. 19 1865-1895 In 1865 Surgeon General Joseph Barnes placed John Shaw Billings in charge of the collection. In 1895 Billings retired from the Army and Library to direct the Department of Hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania, and later the New York Public Library. Pp. 25 1866-1887 The Library and Army Medical Museum were housed in Ford's Theatre, where President Lincoln had been assassinated on April 14, 1865. Pp. 27 1869 The Library published its first bibliographies: List of Works on Cholera in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office..., List *This chronology is an expanded version of the one prepared by Manfred Waserman which appeared in Bull. Med. Lib. Ass. 60: 551-8 (1972). of Works on Yellow Fever..., and List of Works on Military Surgery.. Pp. 33 1871 The decision was made to develop the collection into the "National Medical Library.' Pp. 34 1872 Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. . . . In this catalog, listing about 13,000 titles, Billings placed an alphabetical index of subjects, foreshadowing his monumental IndexCatalogue. Pp. 79 1873-1874 The institution was now the largest medical library in the United States. Its catalog required three printed volumes, listing about 50,000 titles. Pp. 86 1876 Billings published the Specimen Fasciculus of a Catalogue of the National Medical Library to show his plan of indexing and cataloging the collection to librarians, physicians, Army medical officers, and government officials. Robert Fletcher joined the Library staff. Pp. 119 Pp. 123 1879 Index Medicus; a Monthly Classified Record of the Current Med- Pp. 129 1885 President Chester Arthur approved a bill authorizing a new building "for the safekeeping of the records, library, and museum of the Surgeon General's Office . . . to be constructed . . . in the vicinity of the National Museum and Smithsonian Institution," on March 2. Pp. 164 1887 The Library and museum moved from Ford's Theatre to the newly constructed building on the Washington Mall. Pp. 168 1891 Fielding Hudson Garrison joined the Library staff as a clerk. He remained with the Library until 1930, when he went to Johns Hopkins. Pp. 195 1895 The final volume of the first series of the Index-Catalogue was published. The first series contained 176,364 author entries, 168,557 subject entries for books and pamphlets, and 511,112 subject entries for articles. 1895-1897 Lt. Col. David Lowe Huntington, Librarian. Pp. 176 1897-1902 Maj. James Merrill, Librarian. 1903-1913 Pp. 185 1902 Maj. Walter Reed, Librarian. Pp. 186 Lt. Col. Walter Drew McCaw, Librarian. Pp. 187 Pp. 189 1912 Fielding Garrison published his list of "Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine. . .," later revised by Leslie T. Morton, A Medical Bibliography (Garrison and Morton)... Pp. 196 1913 Fielding Garrison published An Introduction to the History of Medicine, which went through several editions. 1913-1919 Col. Champe Carter McCulloch, Librarian. 1919 Col. Paul Frederick Straub, Librarian. 1919 Brig. Gen. Francis Anderson Winter, Librarian. Pp. 198 Pp. 219 Pp. 239 Pp. 241 Pp. 242 1919-1925 Brig. Gen. Robert Ernest Noble, Librarian. 1922 The old name “Library of the Surgeon General's Office" was replaced by a new name, "Army Medical Library," on January 10. 1925-1927 Lt. Col. James Matthew Phalen, Librarian. 1927-1932 Pp. 243 Pp. 243 Pp. 244 Col. Percy Moreau Ashburn, Librarian. 1927 Index Medicus was merged with the Quarterly Cumulative Index, forming the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus, published by the American Medical Association with financial assistance from the Carnegie Institution. 1932-1936 Maj. Edgar Erskine Hume, Librarian. Pp. 249 Pp. 259 Pp. 276 1933 The Library received the William F. Edgar bequest. 1936-1945 Col. Harold Wellington Jones, Librarian. At his suggestion the old title "Librarian" was changed to the new title "Director" in May 1944. Pp. 271 1937 Microfilming of literature for patrons was started in the Library. The camera was provided, and the service managed, by a volunteer, Atherton Seidell, a Washington chemist. This "Medicofilm" service lasted until 1942. Pp. 279 1940 Atherton Seidell organized "Friends of the Army Medical Library," which existed until 1945. Pp. 279 1941 The Current List of Medical Literature began publication January 1. It was financed and edited by Atherton Seidell, under sponsorship of the Friends. The List was a rapid finding aid to current articles, microfilm copies of which were available at a nominal cost. The Library assumed publication of the List in September 1945. Pp. 281 1942 The government leased a portion of the Dudley P. Allen Memorial Library Building from the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Library transported its rare books there for protection during the war. In 1945 the Cleveland Branch was renamed the History of Medicine Division. The Division remained in Cleveland until 1962, when it moved back to the Library. The library organized its own microfilm operation, named "Photoduplication Service." Pp. 296 Pp. 300 |