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Perseus Project Founder Speaks on Roles for Libraries

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On January 17, 2012, Gregory Crane (Harvard BA 79, Phd 85), Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Tufts University, and Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project, spoke on “Libraries, Humanists, and Intellectual Life in the 21st Century” at Harvard University to a mixed group of librarians, technologists and faculty. He described a number of opportunities for libraries in a world of “ubiquitous information,” where the number of books a library owns is no longer the only important metric – and may not be that important at all. Continue reading

Cushing/Whitney Travel Award

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One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets” and offers researchers access to the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell among others. Continue reading

Learning from Users

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The MHL’s National Endowment for the Humanities “Digital Humanities Start-Up” project is underway (see: http://www.medicalheritage.org/2011/08/mhl-project-updates/). We are meeting with faculty, graduate students, and administrators at partner organizations to learn from them how they use digital sources in teaching and research, their ideal solutions to overcoming teaching and research obstacles, and how they envision the MHL supporting their work. This data will inform the near-term development of the MHL and its goals for the future. Continue reading