Three who made an association: I. Sir William Osier, 1849-1919 II. George Milbry Gould, 1848-1922 III. Margaret Ridley Charlton, 1858-1931 and the founding of the Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, 1898

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-319

  Groen, Frances K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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18. The correspondence and other administrative materials related to the history of the Medical Library of McGill University are housed in the Archives of the Osier Library. The Librarian's Reports and Minutes of Meetings of the Library Committee are contained in this collection. Minutes of Meetings of February 26, 1908 and of November 29, 1912.
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29. Documents related to the history of the Medical Library Association are housed in the Archives of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. Permission to quote from these letters is given by the Executive Director of the Medical Library Association. Information and quotations are drawn from the letters of Miss Charlton in this collection dated Mar 31, 1898; May 6, 1898; Jun 27, 1898; Jul 18, 1898; Jul 25,1898; Feb 10,1899; Feb 20,1899; May 27,1899; Jul 14,1899; Sep 6, 1899; Sep 19, 1899; Oct 16,1899; Oct 23, 1899; Mar 22, 1900.
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