The Medical Library Is History

• Autores: Simon Chaplin
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 15, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 146-156
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Medical libraries are dying. Or at least some specific sorts of medical libraries�independent institutional libraries, owned by historic organizations, in historic buildings, with large historic collections�are under serious threat of themselves becoming part of the past. To mitigate this threat, there is a need to rethink the nature of the �historic� medical library. This involves reconsidering the library�s relationship to medicine and the history of medicine as disciplines, defining what is important about the nature of the library as a physical space and of its collections as material things, and reevaluating its audiences. Digitization has a role to . . .