摘要：MEDICAL librarians are no strangers to the curiously abstract and mildly frenetic world of scientific information. Medicine was the first of the sciences to develop a literature sizeable enough to require the imposition of bibliographical controls; Plouquet in a very real sense was the spiritual grandparent of the IBM 707. Furthermore, the medical profession of 125 years ago was first to cry warning that the world was publishing too many scientific books for its own good-a cry now echoed by every scientific profession.
