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THE first ordinary meeting of the newly formed Medical Sub-Section of the Library Association was held at the National Institute for Medical Research on January 2. In welcoming the seventy or more members and guests, Dr. C. R. Harington, director of the Institute, spoke of the increasingly important part played by library services in the modern medical world and of the invaluable aid that specially trained librarians could give to those engaged in medical practice and research. Dr. G. Popjak gave an illuminating talk on recent developments in nuclear physics and their medical applications; his exposition of the manufacture of radioactive isotopes was much appreciated. Miss Ethel Wigmore, librarian to the Medical Research Council and a member of the Committee of the Medical Sub-Section, ‘then described the work of the Library of the Institute, and this was followed by a conducted tour. The members were especially interested in the system of indexing current periodical literature pending the issue of the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus, and in the very comprehensive subject-index to the large collection of reprints.
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Medical Sub-Section of the Library Association. Nature 161, 90 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161090c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161090c0