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Mary Louise Marshall

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Mary Louise Marshall
BornJuly 19, 1893
Salem, Illinois
DiedJanuary 25, 1986(1986-01-25) (aged 92)
New Orleans, LA
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison
Occupation(s)Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography
EmployerTulane University Medical School
Known forMedical Librarianship
TitleMedical Library Association President
Term1941–1946
SpouseJohn Henry Hutton

Mary Louise Marshall (1893–1986) was Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography at Tulane University School of Medicine, and the longest-running president of the Medical Library Association (1941–46).[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Mary Louise Marshall was born on July 19, 1893, in Salem, Illinois.[4] The oldest of three children, she studied at the Illinois Women's College and Southern Illinois Normal University before completing her studies at the University of Wisconsin's Library School in 1914;[1][5] the university did not grant library degrees at the time.[3] Marshall completed an internship at a public library where she earned $50 a month in wages and lived in the home of a faculty member.[5]

Career

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Around the time of World War I, Marshall worked at the library of Southern Illinois Normal University. In 1919, she left Illinois for New Orleans, LA where she became employed at the American Library Association's (ALA) War Library "scheme for soldiers not yet discharged from the armed forces."[1] When the New Orlean's ALA office closed, she took the position of librarian at the Rudolph Matas-Orleans Parish Medical Society Library, which later consolidated into Tulane University's Medical Library. She held a dual role as Professor of Medical Bibliography.[1][2]

Marshall worked closely with fellow librarians Eileen Cunningham and Janet Doe on various projects. One project being the Handbook of Medical Library Practice, where Marshall authored a chapter on classification schemes. When the Army Medical Library, now the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) needed a chairperson to lead a committee of librarians, medical scientists, and physicians to produce a classification scheme, which would later evolve into the National Library of Medicine classification,[1][6] a library indexing system covering the fields of medicine and preclinical basic sciences.

Frank B. Rogers and the NLM Board of Regents

When the NLM formed their first Board of Regents, Marshall was invited by Dr. Frank B. Rogers, then Director of the NLM, to serve as the only woman and the only medical librarian.[1][7]

Mere days after retiring from Tulane University's Medical Library in 1959, Marshall began working closely with medical school libraries in Colombia, South America as a consultant with the International Congresses on Medical Librarianship.[1][3]

Medical Library Association

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During her years as librarian, Marshall became an active member of the Medical Library Association. She served as membership committee chair from 1927 to 1929, treasurer from 1930 to 1937,[2] and in 1941, was the second woman elected as president. Due to World War II, annual MLA meetings were put on hold, and Marshall became the longest running MLA President, serving until 1946.[1]

Marshall received the Marcia C. Noyes Award in 1953, the MLA's most distinguished award.[8]

Personal life

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While living in New Orleans, Marshall met and married Mr. John Henry "Jack" Hutton.[9] In addition to her interest in medical librarianship, she was also interested in the history of medicine and wrote several books on the topic: Medicine in the Confederacy, Plantation Medicine, Versatile Genius of Daniel Drake, Nurse Heroines of the Confederacy. She was also interested in genealogy and was actively involved with the Colonial Dames, serving as their national librarian, historian, and chairwoman of research.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Brodman, Estelle (July 1986). "Mary Louise Marshall, 1893-1986". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 74 (3): 288–290. ISSN 0025-7338. PMC 227856.
  2. ^ a b c Ische, John P. (January 1980). "Lunch with Mary Louise Marshall". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 68 (1): 76. ISSN 0025-7338. PMC 226421. PMID 16017782.
  3. ^ a b c "MLA : Blogs : Marshall, Mary Louise (AHIP, FMLA)*". www.mlanet.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  4. ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  5. ^ a b Epstein, Barbara A. (January 2016). "In their own words: oral histories of Medical Library Association past presidents". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 104 (1): 3–14. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.104.1.002. ISSN 1536-5050. PMC 4722639. PMID 26807047.
  6. ^ "[Mary Louise Marshall, Professor of Medical Bibliography, Tulane School of Medicine] - NLM Catalog - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  7. ^ Unknown (1957-03-20). "[Frank B. Rogers and the NLM Board of Regents]". History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  8. ^ "MLA : About : Marcia C. Noyes Award". www.mlanet.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  9. ^ "THE HUSBAND OF MARY LOUISE MARSHALL". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 59 (4): 652. October 1971. ISSN 0025-7338. PMC 197676.