Ralph Esterquest, 56, Med Librarian, Dies

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.