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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Martin M. Cummings
Director

National Library of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Dear Dr. Cummings:

The Library needs of the Cornell University Medical
College-New York Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University, neighboring
institutions located on York Avenue and 68th Street, have
been a matter of grave concern for a number of years. In
an attempt to solve our problems in concert, we applied
for a grant, which has been funded by The Commonwealth
Fund, for a feasibility study for a tri-institutional con-
sortium facility housing a library and an information and
communications center.

Since the three institutions and the study itself are
strongly oriented in the bio-medical sciences and commit-
ted to delivery of information to the medical profession,
we think it only proper to inform you of our plans. I am
enclosing a copy of our proposal to The Commonwealth Fund
outlining the basic subjects for analysis and the likely
schedule for the study.

If you would like to have any additional information
or have any questions, Mr. Rodney W. Nichols, Executive
Vice President, and Mrs. Sonya Wohl Mirsky, Librarian,
will be glad to make their files available to you.

We would welcome an opportunity to keep you or your
designate informed of the progress of our ideas. Indeed
if there is a convenient opportunity for you to visit us
and share your own perspectives, we would certainly wel-
come that.

Yours sincerely,

bec: Mrs. Sonya W. Mirsky Shua Lederberg
Mr. Rodney W. Nichols