Medical Library Association records, 1928-1979.

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Medical Library Association records, 1928-1979.

Newsletters, programs, brochures, reports, and membership lists, 1928-79; minutes and correspondence, 1951-79; and a typescript handbook on medical libraries by Marion Dondale, librarian at Albany Medical College, 1952-53.

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Founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians and four physicians at the suggestion of George M. Gould, M.D., editor of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, the Medical Library Association (MLA) is the second oldest special library association in the United States. Membership was limited to librarians representing medical libraries of not less than 500 volumes and with regular library hours and attendance. The Association of Medical Librarians (as it was known until 1907) was founded "to...