Category: News

New Search Tool for the MHL Collection

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We are pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library has created a full-text search tool for use with the MHL collections.

The original idea for the tool was generated by the MHL’s Governance Committee. Kathryn Hammond-Baker and Emily Gustainis liaised with Francis A. Countway Medical Library‘s technical team members, primarily David Hummel (lead) and Seth Paine. Thanks also to Zak Kohane, director of the Countway Library and the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) and Doug MacFadden, CIO for Countway-CBMI.

The search tool is currently in beta testing and we would like your feedback!

Please go to the MHL Search Tool (BETA) page on the bar above this post, click on the image below, or click this link to go to the search tool.

If you have comments, questions, or concerns, please email medicalheritage@gmail.com.

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MHL Lunch Session at AAHM 2013 at Emory University

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The Medical Heritage Library delivered a successful lunch session at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, held at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Entitled “Maximizing the Medical Heritage Library’s Usefulness for Research: New Content, New Tools”, the four panelists highlighted recent additions to the MHL and offered a glimpse into future plans: Continue reading

Countway and Hopkins Receive Mellon Foundation Grant

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Psychiatrists Erich Lindemann (center right) and Lydia M. Gibson Hawes (center left) at an unidentified social event. Lydia M. Gibson Dawes papers, 1926-1959 (B MS c96). From the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

Psychiatrists Erich Lindemann (center right) and Lydia M. Gibson Dawes (center left) at an unidentified social event. Lydia M. Gibson Dawes papers, 1926-1959 (B MS c96). From the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) to increase access to critical resources currently unavailable to historical research.  Continue reading

Recently, on Twitter…

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Are you following the MHL’s Twitter feed yet?

If not, here are some of the recent stories you may have missed!

As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!