Laws, leaders, and legends of the modern National Library of Medicine.
PURPOSE: The paper is an expanded version of the 2007 Joseph Leiter National Library of Medicine (NLM)/Medical Library Association Lecture presented at MLA '07, the Medical Library Association annual meeting in Philadelphia in May 2007. It presents an historical accounting of four major pieces of le...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 121 - 134 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
Apr2008
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