摘要：I should like to comment on the reference to the renewal of the Medical Library Assistance Act (MLAA) in Dr. Estelle Brodman's article, "Confrontation and the Medical Library" (Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. 62: 87-91, April 1974). Dr. Brodman states that "It (the MLAA) was renewed in the nick of time by Congress and approved by the President, but only as a compromise for a single year." The implication, that the single year extension was a compromise forboding ill for the MLAA, is incorrect. The passage of the extension act for 1974 was labyrinthian but not by reason of problems with the Act, or lack of merit of the programs.
