Janet Doe

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Janet Doe

Janet Doe was a pioneering medical librarian and educator.

Janet Doe (April 19, 1895- November 17, 1985) was born in South Newbury, Vermont, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in science and was trained at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, where she witnessed the effects of the 1918 flu outbreak.  In 1926 she joined the New York Academy of Medicine as head of the periodicals section and in 1949 she became the first female head of the library, while also serving as President of the Medical Library Association from 1948 to 1949. She is author of the Bibliography of the Works of Ambroise Paré (1937) and editor of the first edition of the Handbook of Medical Library Practice (1942).