Tulane University School of Medicine - T Wave Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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THE LIBRARY: 150 YEARS OF SERVICE The orgin of the Matas Medical Library dates from the founding of the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834. First mention of the Library occured in the faculty minutes in 1844. The first librarian was appointed by the Dean in 1896. Two library directors, Miss Mary Louise Marshall and Mr. William Postell, were recipients of the Noyes Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Medical Library Association. In 1895, Dr. Rudolph Matas, a brilliant surgeon, began his long history of generosity to the Library which culminated in a large endowment from his estate in 1959. The Library had been named in his honor in 1937. Other endowments from which the Library benefits are those from the estates or families of Maurice Stern, Isaac Lemann, Louis Burgess, James Kenny, Hermann Gessner, and Eva Weinstein. Significant collections acqured by the Library over the past century include those of: the Louisiana Medical Library Association, 1889, the New Orleans Polyclinic, 1904; Charity Hospital, 1905; the Orleans Parish Medical Society, 1928 and 1959; the Louisiana State Board of Health, 1976; the Louisiana State Medical Society Oournals); Dr. Bernard Weinstein (medical fiction); Dr. Elizabeth Bass Library Staff: (left to right) W.D. Postell, Jr., P. Copeland, M. Covington, C. Ross, M. Rennie, C. Goldstein, A. Holliday, A. Elliott, K. Bertel, M. Moore, S. Tadlock, R. Simms, D. Jacob K Puglia A Wills (women in medicine); and Dr. Marcus Feingold (ophthalmology). The first reclassification of monographs began in 1943, and the second in 1960. The library area doubled in 1963 with the completion of the Burthe-Cottam Building. Teletype was applid to interlibrary loans in 1968. Online database searching was initiated in 1973. The Library was extensively renovated, refurnished, and centrally air-conditioned in 1978. Circulation and cataloging systems were automated in 1983. For 150 years, the medical library has served the faculty, staff and students of the medical school. Its vast amount of resources has continued to be a major source of medical information and reference. The Library will faithfully carry on this tradition as long as the medical school exists. 28 One of the many studious medical students who frequent the Library Dr. Rudolph Matas 18601957

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