David A. Kronick
{{Short description|American librarian and bibliographer}}
David A. Kronick (October 5, 1917 – February 12, 2006) was a librarian who researched the history of scholarly communication. He was once called a "bibliographic archaeologist".[http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v15p091y1992-93.pdf "David Kronick’s ‘Guide’ Unearths the Bones of 17th- and 18th-Century Scientific Journals] by Eugene Garfield Current Comments, Volume 15, Number 27, July 6, 1992
He was a Fellow of the Medical Library Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and achieved the rank of Distinguished Member in the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
Education
Kronick was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania and grew up in Cleveland. He earned his BA in 1939 and in 1940 his BS in Library Science, both from Western Reserve University.[http://www.mlanet.org/p/bl/et/blogid=58&blogaid=498 MLA Fellows: Kronick, David A. (PhD)] by Mary M. Langman, MLA In 1956, he completed his PhD at University of Chicago's Library School His dissertation was on the history of the scientific journal from the 17th to the 18th century;[http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/bob/scrapbook/kronick2.htm Oral history of David A. Kronick by Dr. Robert Williams]{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} he pursued this topic throughout his career.
Career
He was in the US Army, from 1941 to 1946 and in World War II he served as a hospital supply officer, eventually as captain.Bowden, Virginia M., and Charles W. Sargent. “[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1629424/ David Abraham Kronick, AHIP, FMLA, 1917–2006].” Journal of the Medical Library Association 94.4 (2006): 484–485. He then joined Western Reserve University Medical School as a librarian from 1946–1949, before moving to the University of Chicago. During his PhD studies he was an assistant at the National Library of Medicine reference department (1953–1955). In 1955 he joined University of Michigan Medical Library, where he worked until 1959. He then moved to the Cleveland Medical Library, which he directed from 1959 to 1964. He then returned to the National Library of Medicine where he was chief of the Reference Division from 1964 to 1965. From 1965 to 1984, he served as (the first) library director of the Medical School of the University of Texas at San Antonio.[http://uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=1906 In Memoriam: Dr. David Kronick dies at the age of 88] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621175932/http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=1906 |date=2010-06-21 }} UT Health Center news, Volume: XXXIX · Issue: 7 February 14, 2006
Legacy
A fellowship bearing his name was established under the aegis of the Medical Library Association in 2002, to support travel to three or more North American medical libraries for the study of health information management.[http://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=308 David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship] This memorializes Kronick's love of travel.
Selected bibliography
- Scientific and Technical Periodicals of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press; 1991.
- The Literature of the Life Sciences: Reading, Writing, Research. Philadelphia, PA: ISI Press; 1985.
- A history of scientific and technical periodicals. New York, NY: Scarecrow Press; 1962. 2nd ed. 1976.
Awards
- Visiting Historical Scholar, National Library of Medicine, 1988–1989
- Medical Library Association Ida and George Eliot Award, 1987Brodman E. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC227240/pdf/mlab00045-0100a.pdf The literature of the life sciences: reading, writing, research by David A Kronick (Library and Information Science Series)
[ book review] ]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1988 Jan;76(1):80.] for his book The Literature of the Life Sciences: Reading, Writing, Research. - Medical Library Association Fellow, 1985Walter PL, ed. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC227794/pdf/mlab00053-0087.pdf Presentation of awards. Proceedings of the 95th annual meeting], Medical Library Association, New York, New York, May 1985. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1996 Jan;84(1):146–7.
- Medical Library Association Janet Doe Lectureship, 1980
- Council on Library Resources, Fellowship, 1972
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965[http://www.mlanet.org/p/bl/et/blogid=58&blogaid=498 Kronick, David A. (PhD)] Medical Library Association biography by Mary M. Langman, M.S.
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