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Ross A. McFarland Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering 1 Catalog of the Library Mary Ann Hoffman Fordham Health Sciences Library Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio 1987 Fordham Library Publication No. 2 ©1987 Ross A. McFarland 1901-1976 CONTENTS Preface vi Introduction vii Acknowledgements ix Catalog 1 Vidéocassettes ИЗ Journals 114 Technical Reports Series 117 Name Index 119 Subject Index 146 PREFACE The Ross A. McFarland Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering at the Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University School of Medicine, provides an unparalleled scientific resource and data base for physicians, life scientists, engineers and others working at the leading edge of human progress, especially those in the areas of aviation, space and advanced ground transportation. The Collection is regularly consulted by those currently pioneering these fields and is an invaluable source of information constituting the base upon which future progress is being constructed. I met Dr. McFarland in 1958 and came to know him -well. I observed first-hand his pioneering concepts in human factors, enhanced immeasurably by his articulate communications. Starting in the 1930's, he almost singlehandedly launched the human factors effort in aviation, directly collecting data on airline pilot fatigue and other major operational flight safety aspects. Folio-wing Dr. McFarland's untimely death in 1976, an event -widely recognized as taking from us the father of aerospace human factors, his wife, Mrs. Emily McFarland, decided to deed his library and scientific papers to Wright State University School of Medicine, Fordham Health Sciences Library. This gift consisted of more than 6,000 print items and approximately 400 linear feet of scientific manuscripts, unpublished reports, research data and correspondence, covering 50 years of professional work and research by Dr. McFarland. For a relatively new school of medicine these items provided a foundation that otherwise would literally require many decades to evolve, and, in many respects, would even then be impossible to duplicate in some key aspects. The scholars from all parts of the world who consult the McFarland collection, including the Wright State University School of Medicine Aerospace Medicine faculty and residents, owe an immense debt of gratitude to Mrs. McFarland for making possible the availability of this unique living scientific resource. Stanley R. Mohler, MD. Professor and Vice-Chairman Director of Aerospace Medicine Department of Community Medicine vi INTRODUCTION The Ross A. McFarland Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering is one of the largest private libraries in the world devoted primarily to the disciplines of aerospace medicine and human factors engineering. Over the fifty years which spanned his career, Ross McFarland, Ph.D., pioneer aerospace scientist, carefully developed and nurtured this collection. Dr. McFarland's widow, Emily, donated the Collection to the Fordham Health Sciences Library of Wright State University. Wright State University became the repository for the McFarland Collection for a number of reasons. The University's School of Medicine has developed the nation's only civilian aerospace medicine residency program. In addition to Wright State support, resources for the residency program are also provided by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base which houses one of the largest complexes of aerospace technology in the -world. During much of his career, McFarland served as consultant to Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, and several of his former students serve there as aerospace scientists. The McFarland Collection is also complemented by the major bibliographic resource owned by the Wright State University Library, the Wright Brothers Collection. In the Spring of 1979, the McFarland Collection was shipped by truck from two separate locations in New England to the Wright State University Fordham Health Sciences Library. The 300 cartons and 27 filing cabinets holding the McFarland library -were stored in temporary quarters pending the renovation of a portion of stack area in the Fordham Health Sciences Library. Soon after the collection's arrival, an archivist was hired to spend half-time working with the McFarland material, but it quickly became apparent that additional assistance would be needed if this important resource were going to be processed and made available to the scholarly community in a timely way. A two-year Medical Library Resource Project grant application was submitted to the National Library of Medicine in 1980, and, folio-wing revisions, -was funded in 1984. The first year of the grant provided the personnel and monies needed to catalog and process the books; to process and bind the journals; and to process the manuscript portion of the collection. Year two of the grant funded the microfilming of the manuscripts and the preparation and publication of the Catalog of the Library and Inventory of the Manuscripts. The Deed of Gift' stipulates that the Collection be made available for scholars, researchers, and students. The Fordham Health Sciences Library is announcing the availability of the materials with the two publications; by cataloging materials on the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, inc.) data base; and by entering the journals and technical reports series in union lists of serials such as PHILSOM (Periodicals Held in. the Libraries of Schools of Medicine), the Greater Midwest Regional Library Network Union List of Serials, and the Ohio-Kentucky Cooperating Libraries Union List of Serials. July 31, 1985 was the final date for cataloging and processing the materials entered in the Catalog of the Library. There are a number of entries for materials published since Dr. McFarland's death. Emily McFarland requested that the Collection should continue to grow in size and strength. The Fordham Health Sciences Library has added new and retrospective books to the library, filled in missing issues of journals, subscribed to new journals, and added new archival collections in aerospace medicine. Additions made to the McFarland Library after the publication of the Catalog can be located through OCLC and the various union lists. The major portion of this publication, the cataloged materials, includes monographs, federal and corporate technical reports, reference materials, and vidéocassettes. The entries are by title, followed by the author (when known), place of publication, publisher, date, and the Library's call number. The McFarland Collection's card catalog was used to compile the information for this section and the indexes to these materials. Although they are not indexed, the journals and technical report series are included in the catalog. The entries in these sections show the inclusive volumes and years. No attempt was made to indicate the missing issues or numbers. The technical reports in the list were issued by federal departments or agencies and contain at least ten documents. They are arranged by acronym or initialism followed by the name of the issuing agency. A sample entry is: USAMRL (U.S. Army Medical Research Laboratory Report) 2-1002 1952-1972 There are 12 Hollinger boxes of miscellaneous materials in the Collection. These are materials that are ephemeral in nature: newsletters, pamphlets, and other small publications that were not cataloged on OCLC, but were important enough to keep. An index to these materials is located in the Fordham Health Sciences Library. Users are encouraged to contact the Special Collections Department when searching for this type of material. The Name Index contains names of persons, countries, and organizations. United States federal departments and agencies are listed directly under their name (i.e. National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Publications from other countries include the name of the country as part of the name. Subject headings used in the Subject Index are from the 1984 edition of the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings' supplemented by 143 headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings'. The items in this catalog are available for interlibrary loan, either in the original hard copy or photocopy. All interlibrary loan requests, on the ALA approved interlibrary loan form, should be addressed: Interlibrary Loan Fordham Health Sciences Library Wright State University School of Medicine P.O. Box 927 Dayton, Ohio 45401-0927. Mary Ann Hoffman, Coordinator Special Collections and Services. 1. McFarland, E. DeedofGift. December 19,1978. 2. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. Bethesda, 1984. 3. Library of Congress. Subject Headings. 9th ed. Washington, 1980. Vili ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publication of the Catalog of the Library and Inventory of the Manuscripts was supported by Grant IM 03883 awarded by the National Library of Medicine. This two year Medical Library Resource Project Grant provided funds to catalog the print portion and to process and microfilm the manuscript portion of the Ross A. McFadand Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering. The goals of the project were to make these archival resources available to the scholarly community and to provide access to the collection through the publications and microfilm. We appreciate the assistance provided by the Wright State University in the preparation of this publication. The Wright State University School of Medicine Word Processing Center entered the data
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