Newsletter of the Archivist and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
Spring, 2002, Volume XXV, Number 2

Please note that there has been a change in the area code of Lucretia W. McClure.
Her area code in Rochester is 525.

Table of Contents:

Kansas City Welcomes AAHM and ALHHS to the 2002 Annual Meeting

ALHHS President Suzanne Porter summarizes the activities of the organization during the past year and reminds ALHHS members of the Annual Meeting to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, from April 23 to April 28. The ALHHS program on April 24 will consist of a progressive tour of four collections in the area. The librarians in charge provide background and details about the Clendening History of Medicine Library, the Linda Hall Library of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, and the Piper Memorial Museum.

History of Medicine's Hidden Treasures
by Jonathon Erlen

Jonathon Erlen, Curator of History of Medicine, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, describes his ongoing project of providing monthly listings on dissertations to twenty national/international journals and databases and his Web page Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine. Realizing the difficulty of locating citations to dissertations unless one knows the author's name, the exact title, or the unique identifier number, Jonathan Erlen developed this unique service.

Ex Libris

Compiled and edited by Lucretia McClure, Ex Libris contains news and announcements from Medical Historical Collections. Featured in this issue is a description of a donation to the Archives and Special Collections of the Columbia University Health Sciences Library of medical books collected by Rudolph and Richard Stern and brought to this country when the family fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s; announcement that Dawn McInnis has been appointed Rare Books Librarian at the Clendening History of Medicine Library; descriptions of recent exhibits at the Medical Heritage Center of Ohio State University, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and at the Duke University Medical Library; and announcement of two matching grants at the Francis A. Countway Library of medicine.

News from HMD

Elizabeth Fee, Chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine, reports on the activities of the Division, including a symposium "New Frontiers of Biomedical Research, 1945-1980" held last October in the Lister Hill Auditorium and on additions to NLM's Web site.

News from the Wellcome

David Pearson, Director, reports on the activities of the Wellcome Library in London, including the acquisition of the papers of Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and a progress report on Mapping Medicine, a project to bring together a number of major medical libraries in central London to look at acquisitions and retention profiles.

Submissions may be sent to Lilli Sentz, The Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208014, New Haven, CT 06520-8014.
e-mail : (lsentz@email.msn.com)

Submissions for Ex Libris may be sent, by snail mail to: Lucretia W. McClure, 164 Elmore Road, Rochester, NY 14618-3651 or by
e-mail: (lucretiamcclure@frontiernet.net)

Production deadlines are 1 September, 1 December, 1 March, and 1 June.