摘要:SINCE 1977 the Medical Library Association has either been investigating the possibility of mounting an oral history project or actually carrying out such a project. The welcome news, received just after the association's meeting in Washington in 1980, that the National Library of Medicine had made a three-year grant of just under $10,000 to the association to continue the project (with Nancy Zinn as Principal Investigator and Estelle Brodman as Co-Principal Investigator) made it seem logical to explain to the readers of the Bulletin the present situation in some detail. It seems particularly useful to describe what has already been collected and to suggest some ways in which this store of information may be used.