We invite your participation in the MHL and its activities. If you are a student, scholar, librarian, or member of the interested public, please consider learning about the MHL, using the library resources, and joining us in our mission to expand access to quality historical resources in medicine.
Flier
This flier provides basic information on the MHL collection and its collaborating institutions and advisors.
Introductory Slide Deck
This is a brief introduction to the MHL collection, its collaborating institutions, and searching techniques.
August 2014 .pdf (notes) .pptx
The PowerPoint template for the slides can be found here.
Postcards
The MHL has created an eye-catching postcard (see the image below) via Modern Postcard for distribution to classes or meetings, display at a reference desk, or a variety of other uses.
If you’d like to order some of these cards for use at your own institution, please click this link to contact Eric Fernandez at Modern Postcard and ask for the “Medical Heritage Library postcard,” the “Barthelemy Syphillis postcard,” (the image above) or the “Culpeper postcard” (the image to the right).
If you’d like to order MHL cards with a different image, select your image from the many available through our collection and contact Eric as above. You can substitute in new bibliographic information into the template for the back of the ‘card and voila: a brand new postcard.
Embeddable Search Box Code
This code can be used in any HTML-friendly page, site, or widget to give you the full-text search access to the MHL collection you have through our Search page.
<form action=”http://mhl.countway.harvard.edu/search” method=”post” target=”_blank”>
<table>
<tr>
<td><input name=”query” type=”text” value=””/></td>
<td><input name=”search” type=”submit” value=”Search”/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Working with the Internet Archive
If you’re planning to digitize texts with the Internet Archive or want to add texts already in the Archive to the MHL, these documents may be of help to you.
- Guidelines for metadata submission. (The guidelines in this document apply either to initial metadata submissions or the submission of corrections.) (April 2015).
- Instructions on how to retrieve download (and other) statistics from the Internet Archive using the advanced search function. (May 2014)
- Serials metadata template (for use with Partner Meta App). (If you have questions or comments on this document, please email Beth Lander at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.) (January 2014)
- Using the Partner Meta App spreadsheet with serials. (If you have questions or comments on this document, please email Beth Lander at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.) (January 2014)
- Internet Archive’s Partner Meta App Download and Instructions page. (October 2013)
- Using the Wonderfetch spreadsheet with serials. (If you have questions or comments on this document, please email Beth Lander at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.) (October 2013)
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