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Laurie L. Thompson, MLS
George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC

JAMA. 1988;259(13):1944.

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To the Editor.

—In the Dec 11, 1987, issue of JAMA, Dr Zylke¹ presents an up-to-date view of modern medical libraries. Librarians increasingly use computer technology to ease their day-to-day tasks as well as to facilitate the dissemination of information to the health professional. However, as a librarian and former cataloger at the National Library of Medicine, I would like to clarify Dr Zylke's statement that "some of the librarian's traditional tasks are being done on computers. Original cataloging, for example, is not done by librarians, but by specially trained professionals and then made widely available to libraries on-line."

Original cataloging is still being done by librarians. In fact, the National Library of Medicine has 21 librarians who, in 1986, provided original cataloging for 20 285 books, journals, audiovisual programs, and computer software published in the United States and abroad. While computers facilitate entry of data into a bibliographic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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