[Anchasl-l] Estelle Brodman

[Diane McKenzie]

One of the great lights of the medical library world, Dr. Estelle 
Brodman, passed away on 1 March 2007 at the age of 93.

Dr. Brodman had a long and distinguished career in medical librarianship 
and the history of medicine at such institutions as Columbia, the Army 
Medical Library (predecessor library to NLM), and the Washington 
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  She was always a major 
force in her dual professions, serving (among other things) as President 
of the Medical Library Association, winner of MLA's most distinguished 
awards, and namesake of MLA's Brodman Award for the Academic Librarian 
of the Year.

Dr Brodman was instrumental in starting the MLA Oral History Program, 
and a fascinating oral history of Dr. Brodman is on deposit at NLM, and 
is available through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's 
Regional Medical Libraries.

You can sign a guest book in her memory at:
http://www.legacy.com/STLToday/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86734551&ref=googlenames

Diane McKenzie
Health Sciences Library  CB# 7585
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7585

Phone:  919-966-1776
Fax:  919-966-1388
email: :  diane_mckenzie at unc.edu