title: Building a medical history collection.
abstract: The importance of a clearly defined policy for building a medical historical collection is stressed in relation to the type of library and to the financial possibilities for building the collection and for the proper housing, preservation, servicing, and bibliographic control of such a collection.
mesh_terms: D001868:Book Collecting; D001872:Book Prices; D002376:Cataloging; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004467:Economics; D006666:History of Medicine; D007993:Libraries, Medical