Rochester, New York 2008
35th Annual Meeting of the ALHHS (9-10 April 2008))

Program and Schedule of Events


 
Wednesday, April 9  
 
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Steering Committee Meeting
Hyatt Wilmorite Room

6:30 p.m.

Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency (125 East Main Street) prior to boarding bus

7:00 - 7:45 p.m.

Open Bar in the Living Room at the Country Club of Rochester
(2935 East Avenue)

7:45 - 9:00 p.m.

Dinner in the Library at the Country Club of Rochester

9:00 p.m.

Bus returns to the Hyatt Regency
 
Thursday, April 10  
 
8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Hyatt Grand Ballroom ABC

8:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks & Introductions
(Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, ALHHS President)

9:00 - 11:45 a.m.

Blame It on the History Channel:
Sharing Our Resources with Varied Audiences
     9:00 - 9:25 "ars sine scientia nihil est"
Cynthia Kahn (Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University)
     9:25 - 9:50 Reaching Out to the Inside: Bringing History to Employees
Barbara J. Niss (Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, Mount Sinai Medical Center)
     9:50 - 10:15 Creating a Hub: The Scholarship Outreach Efforts of the OSU Medical Heritage Center
Judith A. Weiner (Medical Heritage Center, The Ohio State University)
     10:15 - 10:30 Break
     10:30 - 10:50 "Treasures of the Library:" An Outreach Model that Worked
Susan Wheeler (Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University)
     10:50-11:10 Wellcome Library ‘Insights’ Visits
Julieanne Simpson (Wellcome Library, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)
     11:10-11:20 Combined Discussion of Wheeler and Simpson papers
     11:20-11:45 Search, Sort and Zoom! Improved Access for Images from the History of Medicine
Laura Hartman (History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine)

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Business Meeting and box lunch

1:00 p.m.

Meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency prior to boarding bus
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Tour of the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House
(900 East Avenue; http://www.eastmanhouse.org/)

We will divide into two groups that will alternate between a 50-minute docent-led tour of the Eastman House and a 50-minute tour of the Photo Collection with David Wooters, Archivist
3:00 p.m. Bus returns to the Hyatt Regency