Medical Library Association | Fellows and Honorary Members : Estelle Brodman

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Estelle Brodman, Ph.D

Fellowship Conferred: 2004

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

President, 1964-65
Committee on Continuing Education, chair, 1963
Editor, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1949-1957

Honors and Awards

MLA

Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year, 1986
Thomson Reuters/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award, 1985
Fellow, 1981
Murray Gottlieb Prize, 1977
Marcia C. Noyes Award, 1971
Janet Doe Lecture, 1971

Other

D.Sc. (h.c.), University of Illinois, 1974
Member, Biomedical Communications Study Section, National Institutes of Health, 1971-75, Chair, 1973-75
Member, President�s National Advisory Commission on Libraries, 1966-68
Expert Consultant for Documentation, Central Family Planning Council, New Delhi, India (under U.N. Technical Assistance Board), 1967-68
Member, Library Guidelines Committee, American Association of Medical Colleges, 1963-64
Visiting Professor (Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship), Keio University, 1962
Special Libraries Association, Director, 1949-52

Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PubMed Central http://pubmedcentral.gov/

Brodman E, Carrick EB. American military medicine in the mid-nineteenth century: the experience of Alexander H. Hoff, M.D. Bull Hist Med. 1990 Spring;64(1):63-78
Brodman E. Automation in medical libraries. In: Annan GL, Felter JW, eds. Handbook of medical library practice. 3rd ed. Chicago: Medical Library Association, 1970. p. 198-221.
Pizer IH, Franz DR, Brodman E. Mechanization of library procedures in the medium-sized medical library. I. The serial record. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1963 Jul;51(3):313-38.
Brodman E. Japanese medical libraries. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1963 Jan;51(1):16-25.
Brodman E. Development of medical bibliography. Medical Library Association: Baltimore, 1954.

Positions

Director, Washington University School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, MO, 1961-1980
Assistant Librarian for Reference Services, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1949 -1961
Columbia University Medical Library, New York, NY, 1937-1949
Cornell University Nursing School Library, New York, NY, 1937

MLA published statements about the fellow

Braude, RM. A medical librarian�s progress. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1998 Apr;86(2):157-65. [cited September 13, 2008] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=226348
Honors and Awards. Proceedings, 81st Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Montreal, Canada May 29-June 4, 1981. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1982 January; 70(1):89 [cited September 13, 2008] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=226679&pageindex=1
Medical Library Association. Oral History Committee interview with Estelle Brodman. Interview conducted November 22, 1978 by Mrs. Bertell and others, interview conducted May 10, 1981 by Nancy Whitten Zinn. Chicago: Medical Library Association, 1985? [cited September 13, 2008] http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/brodman_e.html
Doe J. The Brodman decade. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1957 Oct;45(3):424-5. [Cited September 13, 2008] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=200150&pageindex=1
Annan, GL. Estelle Brodman, Ph.D. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1957 Oct;45(4):581-3. [cited September 13, 2008] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=200180

Contributed by Wayne Peay
Edited, September 13, 2008