Abstract
Celebrating Individual Heroes: The Continuing Relevance of Estelle Brodman
Highlights
Imagine for a moment that you are a newly minted hospital librarian in Alton, Illinois, a small industrial city on the east side of the Mississippi River, a few miles north of St
I made her my role model, and I must confess that she has always been one of my heroes. She found innovative ways to put technology to work in her library, and she was willing to help those of us in small libraries join the revolution. She was extraordinarily visible in the Medical Library Association (MLA) because of the force of her personality, convictions, and scholarship
That Dr Brodman is the subject of this Journal of the Medical Library Association focus issue is appropriate, for she represented excellence, boldness, and innovation for the generation of medical librarians practicing from the late 1940s until her retirement from Washington University in 1981
Summary
Imagine for a moment that you are a newly minted hospital librarian in Alton, Illinois, a small industrial city on the east side of the Mississippi River, a few miles north of St. The library of Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, one of the country’s great medical research institutions, is directed by Estelle Brodman, PhD. She found innovative ways to put technology to work in her library, and she was willing to help those of us in small libraries join the revolution.
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