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Guest Post: “Seeing With a Better Eye” Through the MHL

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The MHL was kind enough to extend an invitation to guest-post regarding my usage of the MHL in the preparation of The Second Book. In this post, then, I will try to describe The Second Book as best I can, so as to frame the significance of the MHL’s holdings and resources for my work, as well as to describe specifically how I use the MHL in my daily research. Okay, sometimes the research is more like “weekly” or even “biweekly” than daily. . . Continue reading

Request for Comments: Best Practices on Health Records

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The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, both MHL partners, are in the final stages of  the Private Practices, Public Health:  Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections grant funded by the the Council for Library and Information Resources’Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.  Multiple collections at both institutions have been processed under this grant and the partners are now seeking feedback for the best practices documentation that has emerged from the processing. Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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Here are a few highlights from the latest items added to our collection; you can add a RSS feed that will give you updates on our new items here.

First, a couple of items with rather immediate topical application:

And some mental health titles:

And lastly, the wonderfully titled….

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