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<span class="subhead">South
Jersey Medical</span> History </div></TD>
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<span class="big">The Coriell Institute Library</span><br>
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<span class="subhead">1967-1989</span>
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The Coriell Institute's library began in 1967 when Dorothy H. Gruber was hired
as librarian. Her challenge was to organize and set up a working library.
There were two rooms, one with metal shelving, and a collection of unbound
journals, donated by the Institute's investigators. There were also 50 out-of-date
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<p>After consultation with Mrs. Rosemary Tumilowicz,
wife of one of the Institute investigators and a medical librarian, and Mr.
Albert Coleman, head of the library committee, Dottie proceeded to set up the
library. She drew up a floor plan, including the necessary furniture. When it
was approved, the furniture was ordered.
<p>The library received a budget to order journal
subscriptions through Read-More Publications, Inc. and books through the Dolbey
Book Store.
<p>Dottie's next challenge was to sort through
the many loose and incomplete journal volumes, record what was there and try
to locate copies of the missing issues. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
and the Thomas Jefferson University were most helpful by allowing Dottie to
search through their cellars for duplicate journals. She spent many dusty, but
productive, weeks doing this. Many full runs of bound journals were also given
to her for the Institute.
<p>Before the volumes at the Institute were
complete, and before indexes were available, Dottie spent much of her time in
Philadelphia doing searches for the investigators at the Institute.
<p>Soon there was enough material to start
binding the journals into complete volumes. The Oxford Binding Company was chosen
for the job. Over the next few years Dottie tried other binders (the University,
Nelson Bible Company, and the Atlantic City Bindery) before settling on the
Library Bindery of Philadelphia.
<p>Subscriptions were entered to <i>Index Medicus</i>
and <i>Biological Abstracts</i>, and back issues acquired. The Institute now
had a working library, with borrowing privileges at the College of Physicians
and the Thomas Jefferson Libraries.
<p>In November 1976 Dottie went to the National
Library of Medicine for training as a MEDLINE Search Analyst, making the Institute
the first MEDLINE Center in Southern New Jersey.
<p>Earlier in 1976, the Institute Library joined
the Southwest New Jersey Consortium for Health Information Services, which provided
the Institute access to many clinical journals which they did not own. Other
memberships included the Health Science Library Association of New Jersey, the
Basic Health Sciences Network, the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative,
and the Greater Northeastern Regional Medical Library Program.
<p>When the library merged with UMDNJ's Education
and Research Library in 1989, it brought with it a rich history of service to
the Coriell Institute for Medical Research and to all of South Jersey.
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