摘要：Dr. Paul J. Sanazaro, Director, Division of Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges, addressed the Midwest Regional Group's fall meeting in St. Louis. Dr. Sanazaro compared the development of medical libraries with the development of medical education. He noted that the complaints and observations of medical educators on libraries during the past decades are the same as those that occupy our attention today. Unfortunately with the present attitudes and techniques of librarianship there does not seem to be any hope that the future is going to be much different from the past or the present. We shall continue to be saddled with uncertain generalizations formulated into documents such as the Guidelines for Medical School Libraries (1), which may or may not have defined problems. In themselves these generalizations do not indicate solutions. Dr. Sanazaro has a suggestion which might aid in separating the art and science of medical librarianship, so that at least some problems can be adequately dealt with. Just as hospitals have begun to monitor their services and activities (in the name of research), so can medical libraries.
