Wolfgram P A
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1985 Jan;73(1):32-8.
The hospital health sciences library of today that reaches out to the world knowledge base through electronic networks bears little resemblance to its forebears. Yet to understand the challenges and future directions of the hospital library it is necessary to examine how it began and how it has evolved in more than 200 years. This paper identifies five developmental periods in which major strides were made: the colonial years through the 19th century; World War I to the Great Depression; World War II and the 1950s; the 1960s--the Great Society and the Medical Library Assistance Act; and the 1970s, an era of growth for hospital libraries.
如今通过电子网络与全球知识库相连的医院健康科学图书馆，与它的前身已大不相同。然而，要理解医院图书馆所面临的挑战和未来发展方向，有必要审视它是如何起源的，以及在200多年里是如何演变的。本文确定了取得重大进展的五个发展阶段：从殖民时期到19世纪；第一次世界大战到经济大萧条时期；第二次世界大战和20世纪50年代；20世纪60年代——伟大社会和《医学图书馆援助法案》时期；以及20世纪70年代，医院图书馆的发展时期。
