Join the MHL!
The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. is actively seeking new collaborators! If your institution has materials related to medical history that are or will be digitized, please get in touch with us.
The MHL is made up of voting and non-voting members. Voting members must be non-profit institutions representing medical heritage collections in good standing with the jurisdiction of its formation. Voting members are allowed to appoint one individual to serve on the MHL’s Governing Board; these members have one vote each. Non-voting members may also appoint an individual for representation on the Board but these members have no vote.
Both voting and non-voting members must receive a simple majority in a Governing Board vote in order to join the MHL, Inc. Payment of dues (to be established by the Governing Board) or in-kind work (to be decided upon by the Governing Board) is required from each member.
For more information, please contact the Project Co-ordinator, Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook, at hanna_clutterbuck@hms.harvard.edu.
Current Partnerships
Principal Contributors
Any institution that dedicates resources or staff time to achieve MHL goals and objectives. This includes the partners currently digitizing materials and also those organizations that are contributing expertise. Because grant projects are labor-intensive (far beyond grant-sponsored personnel), any participant in such a project would be considered a principal contributor. Principal contributors have a demonstrated commitment to the MHL, thus governance council members are drawn from this group; participation is co-terminus with the contribution.
- Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé)
- The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University
- The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University
- UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management
- U.S. National Library of Medicine
- Wellcome Library
Content Contributors
Any institution that adds existing digitized materials to the MHL. Such organizations will be asked to issue a press release about the content contribution, link to the MHL, distribute MHL print materials, display a flyer, and inform us of opportunities for collaboration, such as co-sponsoring a presentation about the MHL to appropriate constituencies.
- The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
- Clark T. Sawin Memorial Library and Resource Center, Endocrine Society
- Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, the Founding Campus
- Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
- The M.C. Migel Library at the American Printing House for the Blind
- The New York Academy of Medicine
- NewYork Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives
- NIH Library
- Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University
- Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University
- Rudolph Matas Health Sciences Library, Tulane University
- Rush University Medical Center Archives
- United Kingdom Medical Heritage Library
- The Wellcome Library
- Jisc
- UCL (University College London)
- The University of Leeds
- The University of Glasgow
- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- King’s College London
- The University of Bristol
- The Royal College of Physicians of London
- The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- United States Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s Office of Medical History
- University of Toronto, Gerstein Science Information Centre
- University of Toronto, Dentistry Library (Harry R. Abbott)
- University of California, San Francisco, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences, Special Collections
- The Welch Medical Library, Library of the Institute of the History of Medicine, and the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Contributors
Any institution that publicizes the MHL and promotes its use and development. Our goal is to obtain the participation of history of medicine special collections and other organizations in promoting the use of MHL collections. We hope that contributors will link to the MHL, distribute MHL print materials, display a flyer, and inform us of opportunities for collaboration, such as co-sponsoring a presentation about the MHL to appropriate constituencies