Army Medical Library Classification: Preclinical Sciences, QS-QZ; Medicine and Related Subjects, W

摘要

In the July, 1949, issue of the BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, the preliminary edition of the Army Medical Library Classification wasdiscussed by two reviev4rs. The closing sentence of one of the discussions, by your present reviewer, was as follows: "The A.M.L. should soon know, if it does not already, whether or not this is a classification which 'is a means to a service, not an end in itself."' In the preface to this first edition, Lt. Colonel Frank B. Rogers, Director of the Army Medical Library, makes the following statement: Experience in applying the Classifcation to Army Medical Library materials indicated that a simplification of the schedules would be desirable, both in speeding up the actual process of classifying and in the resulting grouping of materials. Over a period of many months, revision of the schedules was undertaken. The resulting revised and simplified tables were put into operation in October, 1949, just three years from the date on which the Classification was first used. The Classification here presented, then, is that which is currently being used in the day by day operations of the Library.