From Our Partners: Bullitt History of Medicine Club fall lecture schedule

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~This post courtesy Dawne Lucas, Technical Services Archivist, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tuesday, September 3, 2019  12:00 NOON-1:00 PM  Bondurant G-100 (light lunch provided) Bringing Big Data to Asylum Studies: Historical Possibilities, Ethical Challenges Dr. Robert C. Allen, James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Community Histories Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sarah E. Almond, Assistant Director, Community Histories Workshop, University… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Dr. Brooks’ Sanatorium

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~by Caitlin Angelone This month we are heading to New Canaan, Connecticut. The original building that later held Brooks’ Sanatorium was built in 1898 by a wealthy summer resident, Ellen Josephine Hall. Hall purchased the 11 acre property with the intention of opening a sanatorium for her nephew, Dr. Charles Osborne. They left town and the building was sold to Dr. Myron J. Brooks and his wife, Marion. The Brooks’ Sanatorium opened shortly after, specializing… Continue reading

Introducing Garrett Morton

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We’re pleased to introduce our other fellow, working this summer on ArchiveSpark and our full-text search tool. Who are you? My name is Garrett Morton, and I just finished my Master of Science in Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. What’s your background? As an undergraduate, I majored in history, which is how I got into archives in the first place.  Before going back to school to pursue my master’s degree in… Continue reading

NLM and Medical Heritage Library to Expand Public Access to Collections

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with the Medical Heritage Library (MHL) to promote free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine and the human health sciences. Under the agreement, the MHL will include digitized NLM historical materials and associated metadata in its free and open archive of historical resources. Additionally, staff of the organizations will exchange expertise to ensure and share accurate metadata for the materials, data-driven analyses… Continue reading

Big News!

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We are excited to announce the end of a big transformation for the Medical Heritage Library!  Last year, our governance board decided to incorporate the Medical Heritage Library, separating the organization from our parent non-profit educational and cultural institutions.  As our own stand-alone entity, and to continue our mission as a collaborative digitization and discovery organization committed to providing open access resources in the history of healthcare and the health sciences, we applied for 501(c)(3) non-profit… Continue reading

From Our Partners: CfP: Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco. Deadline for submissions extended to June 17 Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic is an interdisciplinary symposium exploring and reflecting on topics related to archives and the practice of documenting the stories of HIV/AIDS.  The task of documenting the history of HIV/AIDS and thinking about the present and future of the epidemic is daunting. The enormity and complexity of the stories… Continue reading

Introducing Kelly Hacker Jones

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Kelly is our Education and Outreach Fellow and we asked her to write a quick post to introduce herself: I taught a course on the history of healthcare in America at Baruch College this past semester. As a bonus question on their final exam, I asked my students what they learned in the course. This class’s answers were overall fairly typical – marvel at the rapid expansion of medical innovation in the twentieth century, outrage… Continue reading