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A Shared Understanding

December 8, 2017

Representatives from WHOI and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) met recently in Woods Hole to renew a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions in support of the MBLWHOI Library. Since WHOI’s founding in 1930, it has collaborated with MBL on the library, which houses one of the world’s foremost print and electronic literature collections in the biological, biomedical, ecological, and oceanographic sciences. From left are: Melina Hale, MBL interim co-director; David Mark Welch, MBL interim director, division of research; Mark Abbott, WHOI president and director; Jim Yoder, WHOI dean emeritus; and Jen Walton, MBL director of library services and co-director of the MBLWHOI Library. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)