History
The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library began in 1949 when two existing medical libraries (Houston Academy of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine) combined their collections in order to better serve the physicians in Harris County and the teaching and research programs of the Baylor College of Medicine.
Baylor brought almost 16,000 volumes and the Houston Academy of Medicine brought nearly 18,000 volumes to the 1949 merger. In 1954, the Library moved from the Roy and Lillie Cullen Building of the Baylor College of Medicine into the new Jesse H. Jones Library Building. Consequently, many mistakenly refer to HAM-TMC as the "Jesse Jones Library".
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