Report of the progress of the Jefferson County Medical Library during 1908 / Library Committee of Jefferson County Medical Society.

  • Jefferson County Medical Society (Ky.)
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Report of the progress of the Jefferson County Medical Library during 1908 / Library Committee of Jefferson County Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    n ^ { PROGRESS OF THE JB^EERS&N COUNTY MED- ICAL LIBRARYT^OfUNih 1908. LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Mr. President and Fellow-Members For the sake of history we may be pardoned for referring to the steps in the development of the Library. The Library was the outcome of a conversation which the speaker (August Schachner) had with Donald MacPherson, deceased, and Professor R. T. Halleck, Trustee of the Louisville Free Public Library, in the latter part of the year 1904. At this time I desired to establish, through the Louisville hiee Public Library, merely a department of current medi- cal literature. Soon after my first efforts I was fortunate in securing the assistance of Dr. James B. Bullitt, who rendeied some invaluable services in the early development of the Library. Dr. Bullitt introduced the motion for the formation of a Library Committee, asking that the speaker be made its chairman. The committee originally consisted of Drs. Bullitt, Pfingst and Schachner. After Dr. Bullitt’s departure from the city, the vacancy was filled by Dr. T. II. Baker, who likewise did valuable work on the com- mittee. After a trying existence on paper for about two years, the Library went into actual existence October 1 1907 To those interested in the early part of the movement we