Janet Doe

{{short description|American librarian}}

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Janet Doe (April 11, 1895 in Newbury, Vermont – November 17, 1985 in Somers, New York{{cite web |title=Doe, Janet, 1895-1985 |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n85808762 |website=Library of Congress Authorities |accessdate=4 March 2020}}) was a medical librarian notable for her work at the New York Academy of Medicine and her consultant work with the Army Medical Library.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mlanet.org/p/bl/et/blogid=52&blogaid=333|title=MLA : Blogs : Doe, Janet (AHIP, FMLA)*|website=www.mlanet.org|access-date=2017-01-30}}

Janet Doe began her library career at the New York Public Library. She entered medical librarianship in 1923 as an assistant librarian at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.{{Cite journal |last=Brodman |first=Estelle |date=1986 |title=Janet Doe, 1895-1985 |journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=188–189 |pmc=227827}} From 1949 to 1956, Doe served as the first female library director at the New York Academy of Medicine.{{Cite web |last=nyamhistory |date=2021-03-10 |title=Janet Doe, NYAM's First Woman Library Director |url=https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2021/03/10/janet-doe-nyams-first-woman-library-director/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Books, Health and History |language=en}} In 1956, Doe spoke before the United States Congress on behalf of the Medical Library Association advocating for the designation of a National Library of Medicine and its transition from the Armed Forces Medical Library administered under the Department of Defense.{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Kent A. |date=2008 |title=Laws, leaders, and legends of the modern National Library of Medicine |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18379667 |journal=Journal of the Medical Library Association |volume=96 |issue=2 |pages=121–133 |doi=10.3163/1536-5050.96.2.121 |issn=1558-9439 |pmc=2268223 |pmid=18379667}}

Doe served as president of the Medical Library Association from 1948 to 1949.{{Cite web |title=MLA : Blogs : Doe, Janet (AHIP, FMLA)* |url=https://www.mlanet.org/p/bl/et/blogid=52&blogaid=333 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.mlanet.org}} Her 1949 presidential address, entitled The Development of Education For Medical Librarianship, was republished in a 2012 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.{{Cite journal |last=Doe |first=Janet |date=2012 |title=The development of education for medical librarianship. 48th Annual Meeting, Medical Library Association, Galveston, Texas, April 13 1949 |journal=Journal of the Medical Library Association |volume=100 |issue=4 Suppl |pages=D |issn=1558-9439 |pmc=3571671 |pmid=23509426}} Through a guest editorial in 1950, Doe announced the sanctioning of regional chapter meetings for the Medical Library Association, a tradition which continues today.{{Cite journal |last=Doe |first=J. |date=1950 |title=THE NEW VENTURE: REGIONAL MEETINGS |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16016900 |journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=273–274 |issn=0025-7338 |pmc=195051 |pmid=16016900}} Her memory is preserved in the annual [https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=243 Janet Doe Lectureship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201102314/https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=243 |date=2023-12-01 }} series, established in 1965.{{Cite web |title=MLA : About : Janet Doe Lectureship |url=https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=243 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.mlanet.org |archive-date=2023-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201102314/https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=243 |url-status=dead }} She gave her oral history to Estelle Brodman in 1977.