Gerald J. Oppenheimer

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Gerald J. Oppenheimer is an American librarian and scholar. He is retired from the directorship of the Health Sciences Library at the University of Washington, which post he held from 1963 until 1987.^[1]^[2]

Oppenheimer, who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1922, and immigrated to the United States in 1940, was, in addition to being the university's assistant director of libraries, the founding president of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors. Under his tenure, in 1968 the Health Sciences Library became only the second Regional Medical Library in the country.

Notes and references

↑ "Oral History Project: Voices of the Past," Medical Library Association, June 25, 1999
↑ "MLA Fellow Brief Vitæ," Medical Library Association, June 6, 2003

External links

Gerald Oppenheimer's website

Persondata
Name	Oppenheimer, Gerald
Alternative names
Short description	Librarian
Date of birth	1922
Place of birth	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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