Frank Bradway Rogers

Frank Bradway Rogers (31 December 1914 to 27 July 1987) was an American medical doctor and librarian who helped turn the Army Medical Library into the National Library of Medicine. He was instrumental in that change. He also helped develop the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, known as MEDLARS, an electronic system for storing and retrieving information that replaced the older index cataloging system. American Libraries later included him on its list of the one hundred most important people in twentieth-century librarianship. The source lead gives no clinical career details, so this entry describes him chiefly through his work in medical information.