Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 - The Era of the Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw Billings - 1836 - 1898

Chapter 2 - The Era of the Gentleman Physician Librarian - 1898 to 1945

Chapter 3 - The Era of the Development of the Clinical Research Infrastructure (NIH), the Rapid Expansion in Funded and Published Clinical Research and the Emergence of Medical Librarianship as a Profession - 1945 - 1962

Chapter 4 - The Era of the Development of the National Library of Medicine, Online digital Subject Searching (Medline) and the Creation of the Health Science Library Infrastructure- 1962 - 1975

Chapter 5 - The Medline Era - A Golden Age for Medical Libraries - 1975 - 1995

Chapter 6 - The Era of Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to Digitally Based Medical Libraries - 1995 - 2015

Chapter 7 - The Era of the Digital Health Sciences Library - 2015 -

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