Events in the Development of Education for Medical Librarianship in the Last Decade

摘要

SHARING as I do in your great pride and affection for Janet Doe, I, too, wish to participate in anything acknowledging her earned right to honors. And so I was pleased, even grateful, that I was asked to be a contributor to her Festschrift. For once, I had no serious misgiving concerning my ability to produce something adequate. For after all, I had only to add a footnote to her presidential address, "The Development of Education for Mledical Librarianship." But footnotes in quantity have been appended, as one look at the third volume of Libri, any volume of Library Literature, and "Medical Library Literature" (1) will show. Troxel (2) and Postell (3) are perhaps the most satisfactory addenda. But the footnote should also include activities in the general world of librarianship and for this Wilson and Tauber (4) are suggested. They include a brief summary from the international point of view. This, plus the references, especially Briet (5) and Gropp (6), and the many articles and discussions in Libri give us some idea of the activities of our foreign colleagues. The literature devoted to medical education is even more extensive than that of the first two of our interests and here it would be difficult to suggest one simple summary. Trends in Medical Education (7), Medical Schools in the United States at Mid-Century (8), Preparation for Medical Education in the Liberal Arts College (9), and the Proceedings of the World Conference on Medical Education (10), to mention only four, all have important implications for ua.