Excerpt from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 3: Quarterly; April, 1914 At the instigation of the Prussian Minister of Education a Commission was organized in 1904 in Berlin, with one or two associates in other parts of the German Empire, in order to draw up a complete catalogue of all incunabula; not only in' Germany, butiin France and other countries, in fact throughout the world, and this Commission, having completed the work in Germany, is now asking the co-operation of libraries in other parts of the world: The German inventory has compiled titles; that means many more editions. They have already got the list of the incunabula in Austria; it is being formed in Russia and in Switzerland; in France it is. Being undertaken, and it has been completed already in Denmark. The extent of the work you may judge from the fact that so far they have definitely determined the location of copies of incuna bula, one-third in Prussia; one-third in Bavaria; and one - third in other German States; that means 'cop'ies, not editions} In Great Britain we were fortunate enough to have a visit a few months ago'from the Secretary of this Commission. He has stirred up interest there and the Bibliographical Society is undertaking the publication of all of the British incunabula and is preparing the census of the incunabula in the public and private libraries in Great, Britain. Fortunately it is already done for the British Museum and already done for the Bodleian, but there are some scores of public libraries rich in incunabula, and of these the catalogue will be made by the Prussian Commission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A History of Medical Libraries and Librarianship in the United States: From John Shaw Billingsto the Digital Era presents a history of the profession from the beginnings of the Army Surgeon General’s Library in 1836 to today’s era of the digital health sciences library. The purpose of this book is not only to make this history available to the profession’s practitioners, but also to provide context as medical librarians and libraries enter a new age in their history as the digital information environment has undercut the medical library’s previous role as the depository of the print based KBI/information base. The book divides the profession’s history is divided into seven eras: 1. The Era of the Library of the Office of the Army Surgeon General and John Shaw Billings – 1836 – 1898 2. The Era of the Gentleman Physician Librarian – 1898 to 1945 3. The Era of the Development of the Clinical Research Infrastructure (NIH), the Rapid Expansion in Funded and Published Clinical Research and the Emergence of Medical Librarianship as a Profession – 1945 – 1962 4. The Era of the Development of the National Library of Medicine, Online digital Subject Searching (Medline) and the Creation of the National Health Science Library Infrastructure– 1962 – 1975 5. The Medline Era – A Golden Age for Medical Libraries – 1975 – 1995 6. The Era of Universal Access to Information and the Transition from Paper to Digitally Based Medical Libraries – 1995 – 2015 7. The Era of the Digital Health Sciences Library – 2015 – Each era is reviewed through discussing the developments in the field and the factors which drove those developments. The book will provide current and future medical librarians and information specialists an understanding of the development of their profession and some insights into its future.