Billings in Cyberspace: Toward the Electronic Index-Catalogue

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 689-692

  Maulitz, Russell C ^a  

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ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIBRARY; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; UNITED STATES;

CATALOGS, LIBRARY; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDLARS; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031310568     PISSN: 00075140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/bhm.1997.0180     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Funding for a pilot project has been generously provided by the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (BWF) of Durham, N.C., while both the Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Trust of London have expressed strong interest. The AAHM is grateful to BWF for financial assistance that is now making the initial phase of the project a reality. I would like to extend my personal thanks also to the following members of the AAHM Committee on Electronic Media and Steering Group for the Index-Catalogue project: Inci Bowman, Elizabeth Fee, William Helfand, Joel Howell, Edward Morman, David Pearson, and Jack Pressman.
2. See, for example, http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Bibliography.html. On further scrutiny, the notion begins to seem less anachronistic. Recent scholarship has described the "cordial" relationship that Billings, already a champion of sanitary and census statistics, enjoyed with tabulating-machine pioneer and "Big Blue" antecedent Herman Hollerith: see Carleton B. Chapman, Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's Coming of Age (Boston: Boston Medical Library, 1994), pp. 239-41, and esp. the sources in nn. 14-21 on pp. 386-87.
3. See also F. H. Garrison, John Shaw Billings: A Memoir (New York: Putnam, 1915); and F. B. Rogers, ed., Selected Papers of John Shaw Billings (Baltimore: Medical Library Association, 1965).
4. See also F. H. Garrison, John Shaw Billings: A Memoir (New York: Putnam, 1915); and F. B. Rogers, ed., Selected Papers of John Shaw Billings (Baltimore: Medical Library Association, 1965).
5. For early detail see U.S. Army, Surgeon-General's Office, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, [1st ser.], 16 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1880-95), 16: iii.
6. J. B. Blake, ed., Centenary of Index Medicus (Bethesda, Md.: National Institutes of Health [NIH Pub. 80-2068], 1980).
7. Bruce Fye, American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and Its College (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 65.
8. Ibid., p. 372 n. 49.