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English: Title: 100 years exploring life, 1888-1988 : the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole

Identifier: 100yearsexplorin00maie Year: 1989 (1980s) Authors: Maienschein, Jane Subjects: Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass. ); Marine biology Publisher: Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: 4 I THE LIBRARY AND PUBLICATIONS /A 77 Creationism attracted attention again a few years ago with a lecture series on science and religion and a recent speaker who asserted that no honest scientist can possibly be religious. And numerous books about science and religion continue to appear on the library shelves. The first year, the MBL Library began as a handful of books in the back corner of the downstairs general laboratory room. By the second year, a healthy collection of 343 volumes occupied the library corner. Over the next years, Cornelia Clapp served as librarian for the slowly expanding collection that moved from corner to corner in search of suflRcient space. During the crisis of 1897, the trustees ordered Whitman to stop spending money. Notwithstanding the injunction, he asked Clapp to continue ordering jour- nals. The trustees then informed her that she could pay for them all herself. With that in mind, Clapp nonetheless did order the volumes, which were, in fact, paid for. Yet the uncertainty illustrates the tenuous basis of the MBL in its earliest years and the scientists' commitment to maintaining that library as a vital organ essential to the life of the MBL. In 1914 the MBL hired an official assistant to the librarian for the first time, when the library moved into more substantial, fire-protected sur- The library stacks when they were in Crane 217 before Lillie was built in 1924. MBL Archives.

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