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She also details her involvement in the MLA вЂ“ as editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, the development of the MLA Oral History Project, and her term as president and on various committees. Brodman discusses the history of the Medical Library Association and its relationship with the National Library of Medicine. BrodmanвЂ™s experiences at the Army Medical Library-National Library of Medicine from 1949 to 1961 and the changes during that period.

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She describes her early professional experiences at the Cornell University Nursing School Library, the main library of Columbia University and its medical library. Brodman explains how she came to enter medical librarianship and the School of Library Service at Columbia University. The interview ends with Estelle BrodmanвЂ™s statement on how fulfilling and exciting medical librarianship has been for her. BrodmanвЂ™s questions about the changes in the Washington University School of Medicine Library. The several interviewers next respond to Dr. Brodman tells of coming to Washington University School of Medicine Library and changes in libraries over the decades. She mentions the development of MEDLARS and GRACE and the demise of the Index Catalog. Brodman then discusses her career at the National Library of Medicine and the differences between the Army Medical Library of the 1940s and the National Library of Medicine of the 1970s. Brodman explains her pursuit of a degree in Library Science, her two years at Columbia University, and her early career in the Medical Library Association.