Organization and Development of the Winnebago County Medical Library

摘要

THE NEED for medical libraries in communities far from a medical school and its facilities has often been met with the establishment of a medical library by the local medical society. Miss Mildred R. Crowe, in an article published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, "A Medical Society Library in a Public Library,' wrote: "The problem of providing medical library facilities is often a difficult matter for small or medium sized medical societies to solve. This is especially true when the society is located in a community where there is no medical school." A typical example is the city of Rockford in Winnebago County, Illinois, approximately one hundred miles from the University of Wisconsin and from medical schools in Chicago.