The University of California, San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Multimedia Collection contains audiotapes and videotapes related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco. Continue reading
Wellcome Film is an online digital collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine owned and now digitized by the Wellcome Library in London. Continue reading
Here are some selected titles that are new to the MHL collection: Continue reading
Have you used Medical Heritage Library material in a class? Presentation? Article? Website? Just for the heck of it to learn something new?
We’d love to hear your story about it and learn a little more about you, too!
Please take our brief (only nine questions — when we say brief, we mean it!) survey and tell us a story about how you’ve used our collection!
Gérard de Lairesse’s original drawing for Govert Bidloo’s Anatomia humani corporis … (Amsterdam, 1685). Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé.
The Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) in Paris, the largest medical library in France with important history of medicine collections and programs, is connecting its users to the Medical Heritage Library by harvesting MHL’s metadata from Internet Archive to allow searching of its content. Continue reading
Title page of James Esdaile's "The Introduction of Mesmerism."
Included in portion of Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library anesthesia collection uploaded to the MHL, is an intriguing selection of materials regarding mesmerism in medicine, or the act of putting patients in a hypnotic state before a medical procedure and forgoing the use of anesthesia. Continue reading
Have you checked out what the MHL’s latest additions are? There are a couple of ways you can see what’s new to our collection. Continue reading
As you may have noticed if you visit our website regularly, we’ve made some changes to the look of the place.
At the minute, we’re still trying to get all the rough edges smoothed out: testing out color schemes, arrangement of widgets, and so forth.
We appreciate your patience while we work through to our final design choices — and if you see something you love or something you hate, please, tell us in the comments!
Thanks!
(Above) A collage of images from Countway books recently digitized and added to the MHL
This month, the Center for the History of Medicine contributed its two-millionth page-image to the Medical Heritage Library. That number translates into almost 6,000 volumes that have been digitized in their entirety (and downloaded over 90,000 times), or nearly two-thirds of our forecast total contributions to the project.
Those who are interested in the process of library digitization might also be interested to learn more about what those statistics mean in terms of logistics and workflow. What does it take to produce millions of page-images from a collection of hundreds of thousands of rare and fragile books? How much time is required? What are the biggest challenges involved? In this two-part series of blog posts, we will examine a large-scale digitization project from the inside. Continue reading
