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York Academy of Medicine Library. It is a 
monument to her wisdom, her enthusiasm, 
her organizational skill, and her unflagging 
zeal for the improvement of medical li-
brarianship. T o Miss Doe, to her co-editor, 
Mary Louise Marshall, and to their talented 
collaborators, all medical librarians are in-
debted. This edition is a considerable im-
provement over its predecessor, and that is 
high praise i n d e e d . — L t . Col. Frank B. 
Rogers, Armed Forces Medical Library. 

Medical Catalog 
Armed Forces Medical Library Catalog; a 

Cumulative List of Works Represented by 
Armed Forces Medical Library Cards, 1950-
1954. Ann Arbor: J. W . Edwards, 1955. 
Authors: v. 1-3; subjects: v. 4-6. $64 a set. 

In 1946 the Armed Forces Medical Library 
established a new cataloging program, and in 
order to make its cataloging records readily 
available to as many libraries and individuals 
as possible it was decided to publish the 
cards in a variety of ways. T o quote M. Ruth 
MacDonald, Assistant Librarian for Catalog-
ing at the Armed Forces Medical Library: 

From October 1946-March 1948, the cards 
were published by the Library of Congress in a 
medical series (MED) and reproduced in A 
Catalog of Books Represented by Library of 
Congress Printed Cards, Supplement 1942-1947, 
and in the LC Cumulative Catalog, 1948. From 
April 1948 to December 1949, t h e cards were 
mimeographed and retyped copies were p u b -
lished u n d e r t h e titles Army Medical Library 
Catalog Cards (April-December 1948) a n d t h e 
Army Medical Library Author Catalog 1949. T h e 
former was issued as a supplement to the Cumu-
lative Catalog of Library of Congress Printed 
Cards and the latter as a supplement to the LC 
Author Catalog. 

This edition of the catalog covers the five-
year period 1950-1954 and supersedes the an-
nual volumes for 1950-1953 (i.e., the Army 
Medical Library Catalog 1951, and the 
Armed Forces Medical Library Catalog, 1952-
1953). T h e work is divided into two parts, 
an author catalog and a subject catalog. In 
both parts the cards are completely repro-
duced, giving the author entry, his dates, the 
title, place of publication, publisher, date, 
pagination, notes, tracings, Armed Forces 

Medical Library Classification, and card 
number. 

T h e 1950 and 1951 volumes included only 
medical titles; all succeeding volumes have 
included material of medical interest. This 
edition not only contains current material, 
but lists under Part I, Authors, material pub-
lished before 1801 and American titles 
through 1820. Additional titles published 
during this period will be listed in future 
issues of the catalog. 

Part T w o , Subjects, is limited by the li-
brary's policy of assigning subject headings 
only to titles published since 1925, with the 
following exceptions: (1) important refer-
ence and historical materials; (2) biographies 
and bibliographies; (3) periodicals; (4) con-
gresses; (5) statistical documents; (6) works 
about institutions, such as hospitals, clinics, 
etc. 

Altogether about 75,000 titles are listed. 
Because the Armed Forces Medical Library 
has an acquisition policy which is interna-
tional in scope and nearly complete in cov-
erage, this catalog becomes an indispensable 
bibliographical tool for the world's medical 
literature published in book or pamphlet 
form. It is essential for active reference and 
research libraries; all libraries serving medi-
cine and the allied sciences will find it neces-
sary in the performance of their readers serv-
ices and technical services.—G. / . Clausman, 
New York University—Bellevue Medical Cen-
ter Library. 

N o Ordinary Year 
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress 

for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1954. 
Washington, D.C.: T h e Library of Con-
gress, U.S. Government Printing Office, 
1955. 178 p. 

T h e Report for fiscal 1954 records as lead-
ing events the appointment of a new Librar-
ian of Congress and the accessioning of the 
ten-millionth book. T h e list of officers begins 
with a roll-call of distinction: Luther Harris 
Evans, Librarian (to July 3, 1953), Verner W . 
Clapp, Acting Librarian (July 4, 1953-Sep-
tember 1, 1954), L. Quincy Mumford, Librar-
ian of Congress and the accessioning of the 
Librarian Emeritus—all the names since 1899 
but Archibald MacLeish. T h e guard changed, 

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