Spring 2022 Metadata Intern

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The Medical Heritage Library is looking for a Metadata Intern to work with the Content and Metadata Working Group.  The internship will provide hands-on experience with current metadata schemas, editing metadata on digital objects, and identifying objects for bulk metadata updates.  In addition, the intern will have an opportunity to identify content based on available metadata and generate a list of possible items that could become collections.  We are looking for interns interested in learning… Continue reading

With Much Appreciation

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It is with much appreciation that I thank Robin Naughton for her service as the Medical Heritage Library’s Vice-President from July 2020 through August of this year. Robin spent five years contributing to the work of MHL, four of them in leadership positions. (She was the MHL’s Secretary from 2018 to 2019.) Robin initially represented the New York Academy of Medicine, bringing her expertise as the manager of its Digital Lab to bear on the… Continue reading

From Our Partners: UCSF Archives to House The COVID Tracking Project, a National Database Donated by The Atlantic

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The COVID Tracking Project, a crowdsourced digital archive documenting the face of the pandemic in the United States, will become part of the permanent collection in the UCSF Archives & Special Collections and will be accessible to researchers and the public. The project was launched by The Atlantic to address the lack of reliable information about the pandemic, was volunteer-driven and published data on COVID-19 testing, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the U.S. The information gathered was cited by… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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Since we’re supposed to get a tropical storm here in Boston this weekend and it’s pouring out right now (Thursday noontime, US EST), I went looking for a ‘tropical storm’ image for our pick this week. Before I could find one, though, I came across a [Collection of medical and magical treatises] from somewhere in the fifteenth century and decided this was definitely worth a highlight. Continue reading