Newsletter of the Archivist and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
Summer, 2001, Volume XXIV, Number 3

Table of Contents

• Enabling Technologies for Digital Archiving by Paul Schoening
• History of the Health Sciences on the Web: Finding, Evaluating and Organizing by Patricia E. Gallagher

The papers by Paul Schoening and Patricia E. Gallagher were presented at the ALHHS Annual Meeting in Charleston on April 19, 2001. Mr. Schoening is Interim Director at the Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University; Ms. Gallagher is Special Projects Coordinator at The New York Academy of Medicine.

From the President

After summarizing the events at the Annual Meeting in Charleston in April, ALHHS President Suzanne Porter outlines the projects of the organization for the coming year and includes a roster of the membership of ALHHS Committees.

ALHHS Business Meeting Minutes

The ALHHS Business Meeting was held on April 19, 2001 at the Lightsey Conference Center, Charleston, SC.

From the Editor

The institutional host of The Watermark has changed from The New York Academy of Medicine to The Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208014, New Haven, CT 06520-8014

Ex Libris

Compiled and edited by Lucretia McClure, Ex Libris contains news and announcements from Medical Historical Collections. Featured in this issue are highlights of an exhibit at the Health Sciences Library in Buffalo entitled From Birth to Death at the Pan-American Exposition celebrating the centennial of this event; an exhibit at the Kempner Exhibition Gallery on the Morningside Campus of Columbia University entitled From Hippocrates to Gray's Anatomy: Highlights from the Archives and Special Collections of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library; and a mini-exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey entitled Benedict Lust & Bernarr MacFadden: Naturopathy and Physical Culture in New Jersey.

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 the progress on the conversion of the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Office into digitized format.

News from the Wellcome

David Pearson, Director, reports on the activities of the Wellcome Library in London, including an image digitization project, which will make available 150,000 medical-related images on the Web by the fall of 2001.

Changes

• The E-mail address of the Secretary/Treasurer Micaela Sullivan-Fowler. Her new address is micaela@library.wisc.edu.

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.