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PubMed2002

Why collect medical books?

The study of the original sources in the medical literature is an essential part and condition for doing good medical research. The love of books is conducive to a proper use of the source material. To support this statement, a short description of some famous book collectors in medical history is presented in this article.

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PubMed1995

Taste sets the price: Meade, Askew, and the birth of bibliomania in eighteenth-century England.

Three of the most important libraries sold during the first 100 years of English book auctions belonged to doctors. By examining the contents of these sales and the prices achieved in them, I hope to be able to throw some light on the extent and expertise of English book collecting by physicians to discover the principles that governed book values through this period, and to illustrate how three prominent medical men's libraries fitted into the century's wider cultural development.

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PubMed1964

HELPING THE SMALLER LIBRARY.

On invitation, we approach, as consultants, the problem of helping a smaller library. Once we are certain we are qualified for the assignment, we arrange to visit the library and see its problems of personnel, space, and book collection. Talking with personnel operating the library may indicate appropriate courses of action. We recommend library procedures and systems commensurate with the present needs and future growth of a given institution or organization. We appreciate the quantity and quality of services rendered by small libraries. We learn who the readers are and what material is available locally before making recommendations concerning budgets or purchases. Our suggestions on technical matters include either work samples or references. We do not confuse library personnel with great detail. We tell them about local and nearby resources, services of the National Library of Medicine, and the Medical Library Association. We make them feel free to request further information as needed.

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PubMed1996

["Spoils of war"--losses of the Berlin Veterinary Medicine Library in 1945].

All the German veterinary libraries suffered heavy losses during World War II and its aftermath, but the Berlin Veterinary Faculty, whose library was known until 1945 as the biggest veterinary book collection of the world, was exceedingly affected. The reports on the damage during these years note losses of up to 35,000 or 43,000 of nearly 60,000 books. Actually, diverse papers did mention this fact but they concealed the underlying causes of the losses or simply referred to effects of war. However, new evidence allows to claim, that most of the losses have been caused by a very different measure: the confiscation of parts of the library by units of the Soviet Army in May and June 1945 as spoils of war. Eye witnesses and unpublished official as well as unofficial reports show that the choice as to what books should be seized was purposefully made according to special criteria: the most modern specialists' literature (journals and books) and the rare books of bibliophilic value. The library lost important parts of its stock: medical books, parts of the irreplaceable historical collection in veterinary medicine, the foreign language books, the biggest part of the natural science literature (physics, chemistry, biology with botany and zoology) and books on adjacent fields of interest (geography and travel literature, belles lettres, history, philosophy and so on). This contribution deals with the events during the weeks before and after VE day and the course of measures taken in selecting and expropriating the books mentioned above. It is intended to invite additional contemporary witnesses who might bei knowledgeable about these events to help in specifying them more precisely and clearing open questions, which still remain.

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