Ralph T. Esterquest, Harvard's Medical Librarian since 1958, died Saturday at the age of 56.
For the past year, he was on a leave of absence from the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, during which time he established and organized a Washington, D.C. headquarters for the American Library Association's international office. He was scheduled to return to Harvard September 1.
Esterquest was the first librarian of Countway, the largest university-owned medical library in the country.
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