摘要：American, and to a lesser extent British, librarians have tended to become provincial and chauvinistic about medical librarianship because their general inability to read foreign languages makes them unaware of what is going on in other countries. International congresses of medical librarianship may help, of course, but unless there are good arrangements for mixing foreign nationals at these occasions, each language group tends to stay by itself. Moreover, of course, such international congresses are held at infrequent intervals.
