United States Library Mission, “Report to Advise on the Establishment of the National Diet Library of Japan”, 8 February, 1948 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: J. Reznick & K. Koyles, “United States National Library of Medicine”, 2017. 国家医学图书馆。
INTRODUCTION.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) book consists of a “prelude introduction” followed by eight (8) chapters. The “table of contents” of the book is BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.
- Origins and Early Years.
- The Civil War and the Era of John Shaw Billings.
- The “Old Red Brick”.
- World War II and Relocation.
- A New Name and a New Home.
- The Information Age.
- Celebrating 150 Years of Public Service and Looking to the Future.
- The Library in the 21st Century.
COMMENTS.
The NLM was founded in 1836 and is the largest biomedical library in the world in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC. Washington DC also has the Library of Congress (LOC). The LOC has the largest library collection of scientific books in the world. If biomedical, scientific books are your interest the NLM & LOC are stops for you on the Washington DC Metro’. Online link to the NLM is given here.
