From Our Partners: UCSF awarded NHPRC Grant to Bring to Light Stories of Women Physicians and Social Workers

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UCSF Archives & Special Collections (A&SC) is excited to announce that it was awarded a grant by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in support of the project titled Pioneering Child Studies: Digitizing and Providing Access to Collection of Women Physicians who Spearheaded Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics. The $149,814 award will support the creation of a digital collection on Calisphere containing materials from five collections held at UCSF documenting life and work of five women physicians and social… Continue reading

Instagram!

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We decided last fall we wanted to try out Instagram; we’ve been inspired by some great accounts like the Public Domain Review and Harvard’s Center for the History of Medicine. We’ll do a post once we’re ready to start putting up content regularly but for now you can get ahead of the rush and follow us early. And let us know if there are great accounts out there we should be following! Continue reading

Welcome to 2022! From Our Partners: “The City is a Body” by UCSF Artist in Residence Farah Hamade

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In early 2020, the UCSF Library’s Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab launched the inaugural Artist in Residence program. Farah Hamade was selected as the 2020/2021 artist. You can now watch Farah’s final project, “The City is a Body,” an audio-visual animation examining disparities in COVID-19 outcomes experienced by different communities in San Francisco and exploring what existing disparities may have played a role. Learn more about the “The City is a Body” project and Farah’s one-year residency… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Upcoming Archives Talk: Toward a History of Black AIDS Activism

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~Post courtesy Polina Ilieva, head, Archives and Special Collections, UCSF Library. Join historians Dan Royles and Antoine Johnson for a conversation about the long—and little told—history of responses to HIV/AIDS in African American communities. They’ll discuss Royles’s book To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS, Johnson’s research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Bay Area’s Black communities, their favorite finds in the UCSF archives, and more. Register to get a link for… Continue reading

Thanks to All!

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We’d like to thank everyone who applied for our Spring 2022 Metadata Internship. We’re reviewing and interviewing now since y’all were so timely about getting your applications in and hope to make an announcement and introduce our intern in early December. We will be looking for Fellows for next summer, so keep an eye open for that announcement coming in the new year. Continue reading