The National Librarians of Medicine and Their Predecessors
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The National Librarians of Medicine and Their Predecessors

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The National Librarians of Medicine and Their Predecessors

About this book

Did you know that Walter Reed was once a librarian at the National Library of Medicine?
This book looks at the twenty-seven men and women who headed the National Library of Medicine. In its early years, the library was known as the Library of the Surgeon General s Office, and from 1836 to 1865 the Army Surgeon General acted in dual capacity as surgeon and librarian. The first person to hold this dual position (albeit informally) was Joseph Lovell, who began the library by purchasing copies of medical books for his own use. After Lovell died in 1836, his interim successor, Benjamin King, started the process of turning Lovell's collection into a formal library, which grew to become the National Library of Medicine we know today. As the decades passed, the name and functions of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office were transformed. In 1865, the roles of surgeon general and librarian were separated when Army Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes hired John Shaw Billings to run the library. Many decades later, in 1922, the Library of the Surgeon General s Office was renamed the Army Medical Library. Eventually, in 1956, the library was transformed into the institution known today as the National Library of Medicine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Joseph Lovell: (December 22, 1788–October 17, 1836)
  10. 2 Benjamin King: (August 24, 1797–June 24, 1888)
  11. 3 Thomas Lawson: (August 29, 1789–May 15, 1861)
  12. 4 Clement Alexander Finley: (May 11, 1797–September 8, 1879)
  13. 5 William Alexander Hammond: (August 28, 1828–January 5, 1900)
  14. 6 Joseph K. Barnes: (July 21, 1817–April 5, 1883)
  15. 7 John Shaw Billings: (April 12, 1838–March 11, 1913)
  16. 8 David Low Huntington: (April 10, 1834–December 20, 1899)
  17. 9 James Cushing Merrill: (March 26, 1853–October 27, 1902)
  18. 10 Walter Reed: (September 13, 1851–November 23, 1902)
  19. 11 Calvin DeWitt: (May 26, 1840–September 2, 1908)
  20. 12 Walter Drew McCaw: (February 10, 1863–July 7, 1939)
  21. 13 Champe Carter McCulloch Jr.: (September 10, 1869–October 14, 1928)
  22. 14 Paul Frederick Straub: (July 3, 1865–November 25, 1937)
  23. 15 Francis Anderson Winter: (June 30, 1867–January 11, 1931)
  24. 16 Robert Ernest Noble: (November 5, 1870–September 18, 1956)
  25. 17 James Matthew Phalen: (November 26, 1872–October 5, 1954)
  26. 18 Percy Moreau Ashburn: (July 28, 1872–August 20, 1940)
  27. 19 Edgar Erskine Hume: (December 26, 1889–January 24, 1952)
  28. 20 Harold Wellington Jones: (November 5, 1877–April 5, 1958)
  29. 21 Leon Lloyd Gardner: (April 28, 1894–March 29, 1983)
  30. 22 Joseph Hamilton McNinch: (October 5, 1904–October 2, 1994)
  31. 23 Frank Bradway Rogers: (December 31, 1914–July 27, 1987)
  32. 24 Martin Marc Cummings: (September 7, 1920–September 1, 2011)
  33. 25 Donald Allen Bror Lindberg: (September 21, 1933–August 17, 2019)
  34. 26 Betsy Lamson Humphreys: April 26, 1947–
  35. 27 Patricia Flatley Brennan: July 21, 1953–
  36. Afterword
  37. Index
  38. About the Author