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标题：MAKING A DENTAL LIBRARY ACTIVE
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作者：Margaret Brinton
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：1924
卷号：14
期号：2-3
页码：19-27
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：The first medical library in the United States was founded in Philadelphia in 1760. Since then the movement has grown and the medical library is now in evidence everywhere. It is an established institution. The directory of the American Medical Association lists 198 medical libraries in this country and Canada, and this does not include the smaller working ones in various hospitals and clinics. One of the objects of the Medical Library Association, as stated in its constitution, is the fostering of medical libraries; and our society has worked toward this end through its meetings and its exchange. The volumes of the Medical Library and Historical Journal, the Aesculapian, which existed through one volume, and the Medical Library Association Bulletin have contained excellent papers on the founding and development of medical libraries. Very little has been .-;aid, however, concerning the custodians of these libraries, but is not a good librarian as essential as a good library and cannot a poor library be made valuable under the wise guidance of a good librarian? How many of us can think of libraries that have sufficient funds for the purchase of books but no funds for the employment of the proper persons to take care of these books in such a way that they can be found at a minute's notice, and that all books on a certain subject are grouped together? I know of a library that can buy practically everything that is published, but its catalogers are so overworked, and, incidentally underpaid, that they can make only a dent on the annual accumulation and it sometimes takes several days to locate a particular book.