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Jody W. Zylke, MD

JAMA. 1988;259(13):1945.

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In Reply.

—As a physician, one quickly learns to never state anything categorically. Wearing my reporter's hat, however, I seem to have forgotten the lesson. Both Ms Thompson and Ms Reinstein are correct in stating that medical librarians do in fact do original cataloging. However, as they indicate, most original cataloging is done by relatively few medical librarians, particularly the catalogers at the National Library of Medicine. I thank them for providing additional information about cataloging and for clarifying my meaning.

Ms Reinstein makes two other points to which I would like to respond. First, the statement that physicians can do online searching without an intermediary, which was made by Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, director of the National Library of Medicine, does not imply that most physicians do their own searches. Those that do are a minority, but I must mention that that number is rapidly increasing. There are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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