Call for Papers: Medical Heritage Library Conference 2020

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The Medical Heritage Library is hosting an online conference to celebrate a decade of digitizing primary resources in the history of medicine on Friday November 13, 2020.  The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The conference seeks to highlight research, teaching, and learning outcomes for our open-access collection of texts, films, images, and audio material in medical and health sciences and related subject matter. These… Continue reading

Digging Into Digital: The MHL

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Together with LAMPHHS, we’re offering an online session all about the MHL! Melissa Grafe, our immediate past president from the Historical Medical Library of Yale Medical School, Jessica Murphy from the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A Countway Library of Medicine, and Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook from the MHL and the Center will be guiding the session. When: Friday, July 31th at 1 p.m. EST What: We’ll spend about 30-45 minutes on an introduction to… Continue reading

UCSF Library Artist in Residence

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~Post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Head, Archives and Special Collections, UCSF Libraries. We are excited to welcome the first-ever UCSF Library Artist in Residence, Farah Hamade. There was a remarkable response to the call for submissions, and the committee reviewed twenty-seven applications from artists in the Bay Area, several US states, and Canada and representing diverse media formats, including ceramics, interactive wood sculpture, photography, bookmaking, videography, collage, comic books, painting, 3D installation, and others. Farah Hamade… Continue reading

Introducing Our Summer 2020 Fellow: Kim Adams

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For a few years running, there has been minor scandal about Joe Biden’s wife.  Jill Biden has a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware, and requests that she be addressed under her formal title: Dr. Biden.  While the Obama White House listed her as “Dr. Jill Biden” on their official website, several newspapers, including the New York Times, refused to honor her wish, referring to her as “Mrs. Biden.” The Washington Post remarked… Continue reading

From Our Partners: “They Were Really Us”: The UCSF Community’s Early Response to AIDS — A New Exhibition on Calisphere

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~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Head, Archives and Special Collections, UCSF Libraries. When HIV/AIDS first seized the nation’s attention in the early 1980s, it was a disease with no name, known cause, treatment, or cure. Beginning as a medical mystery, it turned into one of the most divisive social and political issues of the 20th century. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) was at the forefront of medical institutions trying to understand the disease… Continue reading

Final words from our outgoing president, Melissa Grafe, Ph.D

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I wanted to thank all our MHL users for the support you’ve shown us over the past 11 years.  We started in 2009 in an effort to bring a consortial model to digitization of medical heritage materials across different types of institutions.  I began co-chairing the MHL in 2015 after the death of our leader, Kathryn Hammond Baker, who was Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library at… Continue reading