标题：Medical Library Association Handbook of Medical Library Practice, with a Bibliography of the Reference Works and Histories in Medicine and the Allied Sciences
摘要：The Handbook exemplifies the spirit of service which has so long distinguished the Medical Library Association. Because Janet Doe and Mary Louise Marshall typify this debt of the many to the few, it is most fitting for this review to appear in the Janet Doe Festschrift issue of the BULLETIN. In the best vade mecum tradition, a clearly defined major audience is envisaged but there is breadth enough to benefit a wider readership. The Handbook directs itself primarily to those medical libraries containing fewer than 20,000 volumes, a class that comprised three quarters of American medical libraries in 1950. It declares its basic purpose to be "to present as simply as possible information useful to those who deal with medical literature, whether librarians, physicians, scientists, or students." Readers from each of these groups will have to provide their own reviews dependent upon the pertinency of the volume to their own situation. The present reviewers represent a library outside the major target area who nevertheless find the Handbook to be a key addition to the literature of the profession.'
