Chapter 02: Becoming a Medical Librarian

Mrs. McGready recounts how her brother helped her get into medical archiving by introducing her to Miss Elizabeth Runge at the University of Texas Medical Branch archives. She talks about the conflict with her parents over wanting to leave her studies at North Texas College to take a position as a medical librarian at UTMB. Daughter Cathy Bacon mentions a story about exposure to library work in Waco, during college. Mrs. McGready tells an anecdote about the scholarship she gave to herself. She talks about her parents attitudes toward education.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1053/thumbnail.jp