John Shaw Billings, creator of the National medical library and its catalogue, first director of the New York public library / by Harry Miller Lydenberg.

  • Lydenberg, Harry Miller, 1874-1960.
Date:
1924
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago : American Library Association, 1924.

Physical description

3-94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 23 cm.

Notes

"In the following sketch emphasis is laid upon the man as bibliographer and librarian"
"One thousand copies of this book were printed ... of which five hundred are numbered"

Contents

The student.--Indiana and Ohio.--The civil war.--The Surgeon-General's office.--The medical librarian and bibliographer.--Director of the New York public library

Bibliographic information

Bibliography: p. 85-[87]

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Billings)
    Open shelves

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