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标题：Canadian Medical School Libraries and Their Collections; A Brief Review
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作者：M. Doreen E. Fraser
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：1960
卷号：48
期号：2
页码：149-161
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：7HIS is indeed an historic occasion, for it is the first time that the libraries of the Canadian faculties of medicine have been discussed. It is sometimes hard to disclose facts for intelligent scrutiny and it may often be more comfortable to ignore them and pretend that they do not exist. With one notable exception, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, Canadian medical and dental school librarians have worked for many years in what appears to have been complete silence; a search through the library literature brings little to light about their activities. At the International Congress on Medical Librarianship in 1953 (1) when so many libraries from all around the world were discussed, the Canadians seem to have been merely spectators. Glancing through a wide variety of published sources, with the exception of the American Medical Directory, one would scarcely know that there were nine medical school libraries, three combined medical-dental school libraries, two dental school libraries, a few society libraries, a sprinkling of hospital libraries, and a spatter of special collections. Only the Academy of Medicine Library in Toronto has found an exponent to tell its tale, and I believe that not until we begin to discuss openly our trials and tribulations, our victories and defeats, will Canadian medical librarianship grow into maturity. Perhaps this meeting is the starting point.