Blake J B
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1986 Oct;74(4):318-24.
The National Library of Medicine originated as a few books in the office of the army's surgeon general, Joseph Lovell, between 1818 and 1836. It became the nation's largest medical library after the Civil War under the direction of John Shaw Billings and began publishing the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and preparing the Index Medicus. After Billings retired in 1895, the library marked time as army medical officers were rotated through as directors until modernization began under Harold Wellington Jones during World War II. during the directorship of Frank B. Rogers (1949-1963), who introduced MEDLARS, guided the move to a new building in Bethesda, and revitalized other operations, the institution received statutory authority as the National Library of Medicine within the Public Health Service (1956). By 1965, which was marked by the passage of the Medical Library Assistance Act, the library had again regained a position of world leadership.
国家医学图书馆起源于1818年至1836年间陆军军医总监约瑟夫·洛弗尔办公室里的几本书籍。在内战之后，在约翰·肖·比林斯的领导下，它成为了美国最大的医学图书馆，并开始出版《军医总监办公室图书馆索引目录》以及编制《医学索引》。1895年比林斯退休后，在陆军军医军官轮流担任馆长期间，图书馆发展停滞，直到第二次世界大战期间哈罗德·韦林顿·琼斯开始推动现代化改革。在弗兰克·B·罗杰斯（1949 - 1963年）担任馆长期间，他引入了医学文献分析与检索系统（MEDLARS），带领图书馆迁至贝塞斯达的新大楼，并重振了其他业务，该机构于1956年在公共卫生服务部门内获得了国家医学图书馆的法定授权。到1965年，随着《医学图书馆援助法案》的通过，该图书馆再次重新占据了世界领先地位。
