The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit educational organization with more than 3,400 health sciences information professional members.
A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care. Medical libraries are typically found in hospitals, medical schools, private industry, and in medical or health associations. A typical health or medical library has access to MEDLINE, a range of electronic resources, print and digital journal collections, and print reference books. The influence of open access (OA) and free searching via Google and PubMed has a major impact on the way medical libraries operate.
Æneas Munson was a United States physician.
Medical History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of medicine. It was established in 1957. The journal is edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya and is published by Cambridge University Press.
Naomi C. Broering was a medical librarian, elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, past president of the Medical Library Association, and past Dean of Libraries at the Pacific College of Health and Science.
Marcia Crocker Noyes (1869–1946) was a librarian at The Maryland State Medical Society from 1896 to 1946, and was a founding and presiding member of the Medical Library Association.
Erwin Reifler was an Austrian comparative philologist. He proposed comparative semantics, influenced by Joseph Vendryes.
Janet Doe was a medical librarian notable for her work at the New York Academy of Medicine and her consultant work with the Army Medical Library.
Estelle Brodman (1914–2007) was an American medical librarian and medical historian. She held positions at Columbia University, the National Library of Medicine and the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). Brodman served terms as director of the Special Libraries Association, president of the Medical Library Association, and editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. Under Brodman's leadership, the library at WUSM became known as a leader in the use of computing machines to perform library functions.
William John Bishop FLA was a British librarian, the first editor of the journal Medical History, and a prolific writer. With his friend Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter, he wrote about John Symcotts, a medical attendant of Oliver Cromwell in A Seventeenth Century Doctor and his Patients: John Symcotts, 1592?–1662.
Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter FLA was a British librarian and medical historian who served as director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine from 1964 to 1973.
Mary Louise Marshall was Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography at Tulane University School of Medicine, and the longest-running president of the Medical Library Association (1941–46).
Tommie Dora Barker was an American librarian and founding dean of Emory Library School in Atlanta, Georgia. She also served as a regional field agent, representing southern libraries, for the American Library Association.
Carl Purington Rollins was a master printer at Yale University Press, graphic designer, author, and educator.
The Louisiana Library Association (LLA) is a professional organization for Louisiana's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The LLA publishes The LLA Bulletin (est. 1937) and Louisiana Libraries magazine.
Madeline Earle Stanton was a personal secretary to American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing. She served as librarian of the Medical Historical Library at Yale University from 1949 to 1968.
The College of Librarianship Wales was a monotechnic college specializing in library and information science in Aberystwyth, Wales, between its foundation in 1964 and August 1989, when it was merged with University College of Wales to become the Department of Information & Library Studies of that institution. During its twenty-five years of independent existence the college grew to be the largest library school in the UK and one of the largest in Europe. It also gained an international reputation for library education,
Lucretia W. McClure was an American medical librarian. She was most recently volunteering for the archives within the Edward G. Miner library, University of Rochester Medical Center. She previously was a director there, and after her retirement in 1993, she worked at Boston Medical Library from 1994 to 2011. Besides her service to those institutions, McClure served for decades within the Medical Library Association, including a stint as President (1990-91). She is the only person to have been interviewed twice for the MLA Oral History Project, first in 1998 and again in 2015.
Charles Adolphe Ernest Wickersheimer was a French physician, librarian and historian of medicine.
Mary Myrtle Tye (1886–1933) was an American medical librarian from Atlanta, Georgia, who became the first librarian of the Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library at Emory University, later renamed the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library.
