Surgeon General's Library

GPTKB entity

Statements (18)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:library
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs National Library of Medicine (historical name)
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:established 1836
gptkbp:founder U.S. Army Surgeon General Joseph Lovell
gptkbp:historicalSignificance central repository for medical knowledge for U.S. military
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Surgeon General's Library
gptkbp:mergedInto gptkb:National_Library_of_Medicine
gptkbp:movedTo National Institutes of Health campus (Bethesda, Maryland)
gptkbp:notableCollection gptkb:medicine
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office
gptkbp:openToPublic yes
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:U.S._Army_Medical_Department
gptkbp:origin gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:National_Library_of_Medicine
gptkbp:significance oldest federal medical library in the United States
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_Shaw_Billings
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7