379 items from the University of Toronto H.R. Abbot Memorial Library and Dentistry Library have been added to the Medical Heritage Library.
The collection includes items such as Dentistry in the Bible and Talmud, The Teeth, and a large number of periodicals, including Oral Health and The Dental Advertiser.
The Dentistry Library is formally known as the H.R. Abbott Memorial Library and the Dentistry Library, University of Toronto (UofT). The Memorial library was established in 1924, upon the death of Dr. Abbott’s sister, whose will provided for the establishment and maintenance of a dental library with a trust fund to be administered by the Royal College of Dentists of Ontario. The Dentistry Library was informally established in the late 1880s to support the curriculum needs of the students and faculty. It includes dental and some basic sciences titles. Currently, includes over 30,000 print monographs and periodicals, in addition to the rich health sciences electronic resources available of UofT Libraries.
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialog that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigital holdings of its members. It was established in 2010 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation via the Open Knowledge Common to digitize 30,000 medical rare books. MHL principal contributors are The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University, the National Library of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, 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, and the Wellcome Library. The MHL also includes content contributions from Duke University, University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto among others.