The Medical Library Association : a few observations / by Horace Mallinson Barlow.

  • Barlow, Horace Mallinson, 1884-
Date:
1910
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    expect that the compiler would have been furnished with figures. The publication to which we will turn for our comparison is a pamphlet1 containing a list of medical libraries in both countries and the number of volumes possessed by each. This does not claim to be complete. Indeed, the aim of the compiler, it seems, was to include only the more important collections. But of these it is not exhaustive, and has im- portant omissions. Nevertheless, it contains, as far as it goes, the most up-to-date information, and is the best publication to serve our purpose. It is an interesting brochure, a useful contribution to medical bibliography, and in future editions we hope the Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine —to whom it seems we are indebted—will increase its im- portance as a bibliographical tool by extending its scope and making it complete. We might offer the suggestion that the custodian of the most important medical library in each town or State be requested to furnish the names and the extent of all collections of medical works in that particular area. In this return sixty-nine libraries in the United States are represented as having an aggregate number of about 935,000 volumes, while to forty-one in Great Britain there are assigned about 603,000. The libraries represented are those “ conducted in the interest of the profession and those owned by medical libraries. Collections of medical works in general libraries, some of them very important, are 1 “ Medical Libraries,” Vol. II, 1909. Repr. from “Medical Record,” 25 September, 1909.