摘要：ON TUESDAY evening, January 5, 1960, the Fellows of the Boston Medical Library authorized the Trustees of the Library to sign an agreement with the President and Fellows of Harvard College "to combine the collections, facilities and services of the Harvard Medical School Library and the Library of the Boston Medical Library in a new building to be erected at the Harvard Miedical School" (1). This approval, following that of the Harvard Corporation on November 16, 1959, makes possible the fulfillment of a dream cherished by many in the Boston area for a number of years, namely, the creation of a single great medical research library in Boston, which will contain most of the significant medical writings of both the past and present and will have sufficient financial resources to house these writings properly and make them available as needed.
