Journ. Med. Education

摘要

The Association of American Medical Colleges has indicated in various ways its recognition of the fact that literature makes a valuable contribution to, and is an essential component of, an adequate medical education. Notwithstanding this recognition, only eight papers on the subject have appeared in the official journal of that organization in thirty years of publication. The symposium on medical libraries, to which the entire Part I of the September 1955 issue is devoted, can therefore be considered a landmark in the progress of medical school libraries, and those who were responsible for securing consideration in this manner are to be commended. Medical Librarians may take encouragement from the knowledge that a succinct statement of their problems, achievements, and latent potential is here presented in the Journal of Medical Education, a publication which carries the message directly to the faculty and administrators best able to aid medical school libraries and who, in turn, benefit most from a successfully administered library program.