Medical Library Association | Fellows and Honorary Members : MLA Awards and Honors

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

David Abraham Kronick, 1917–2006

Fellowship Conferred: 1985

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Annual Meeting Local Arrangements, Chair, 1973–1974
Awards Committee, Chair, 1968–1969
Advisory Council on Continuing Education, Chair, 1967–1972
Pan American Health Organization, MLA Consultant, 1970
American Association for the Advancement of Science, MLA Representative, 1963–1968
MLA Board of Directors, Member, 1963–1964
MLA Business Manager, 1958–1959

Chapter

South Central Chapter, Founding Member, 1973
Medical Library Association of Northern Ohio, President, 1964

Other Accomplishments

National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library Review Committee, Member, 1969–1973
Texas Council of Health Science Libraries, President, 1967–1968
Association of American Medical Schools Committee on Guideline for Medical School Libraries, Project Director, 1962–1963

Honors and Awards

MLA

David A. Kronick Traveling Scholarship, established in his name, 2002
Ida and George Eliot Award, 1987
Fellow, 1985
Janet Doe Lectureship, 1980
Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished

Other Honors

Visiting Historical Scholar, National Library of Medicine, 1988–1989
Council on Library Resources, Fellowship, 1972
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965

Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PubMed Central.

Kronick DA. Anonymity and identity: editorial policy in the early scientific journal. Lib Q. 1988;58:221–37.
Kronick DA. Literature of the life sciences. Philadelphia, PA: ISI Press; 1985.
Kronick DA. Goodbye to farewells: resource sharing and cost sharing. J Acad Lib. 1982;8:132–6.
Kronick DA. A history of scientific and technical periodicals. New York, NY: Scarecrow Press; 1962. 2nd ed. 1976.
Kronick DA, et al. Guidelines for medical school libraries. J Med Educ. 1965;40:5–64.

Positions

Librarian and Professor of Medical Bibliography, University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio, 1965–1984
Chief, Reference Division, National Library of Medicine, 1964–1965
Director, Cleveland Medical Library, 1959–1964
Librarian, Medical Library, University of Michigan, 1955–1959
Assistant, Reference Department, National Library of Medicine, 1953–1955
Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1950–1951
Librarian, Western Reserve University Medical School, 1946–1949
Captain, US Army, 1941–1946

MLA published statements about the fellow

Walter PL, ed. 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.
Bowden VM, Sargent CW. David Abraham Kronick, AHIP, FMLA, 1917–2006 [obituary]. J Med Lib Assoc 2006 Oct;94(4):484–5.
Brodman E. 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.

Education

PhD, University of Chicago, 1956
BSLS, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1940
BA, Albert College, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1939

Contributed by Virginia Bowden, 2011