Medical Library Association

The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit educational organization based in the United States with more than 3,400 health-sciences information professional members. == History == Founded on May 2, 1898, the Association of Medical Librarians, as it was known until 1907, was founded "to encourage the improvement and increase of public medical libraries." Its charter members included four librarians: Marcia C. Noyes, Margaret R. Charlton, Elizabeth Thies-Meyer, and Charles Perry Fisher, and five physicians: George M. Gould, John L. Rothrock, E. H. Brigham, William Osler and William Browning.

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