Catalog, 1951. Supplement to the Library of Congress Author Catalog and the Library of Congress Subject Catalog

摘要

The Army Medical Library Catalog, 1951, which is the fourth annual volume of a series, initiates the policy of bringing together under a single cover every catalog card made for titles in the field of the medical sciences during the year at the Army Medical Library (now Armed Forces Medical Library). At a cost of $17.50 it is difficult to see why any medical library would not want a subscription. The first half of the volume gives in alphabetic order every main and added entry, while the second half lists each subject entry. Under each heading all of the information which appears on the catalog card is given, and there is no more effort to get the complete catalog data than there would be in the normal use of a card catalog. Not only books and serials are entered, but theses, monographic supplements, pamphlets, medical reprints from non-medical publications, and other hard-to-locate material. Since the A.F.M.L. undoubtedly receives more medical publications than any other American library, it seems reasonable to suppose that it lists almost everything about which any other institution would want information.