Newsletter of the Archivist and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
Winter 2002-2003, Volume XXVI, Number 1,

Table of Contents:

The Antiquarian Medical Book Trade: A Survey and Directory of Dealers and a List of Internet Resources

Michael North, Rare Book Cataloger at the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, presents the findings of his survey of medical rare book dealers. The accompanying directory lists dealers who hold significant numbers of medical titles. It is intended for curators of history of medicine collections, private collectors, and rare book dealers.

From the President

President of ALHHS, Jodi Koste, extends New Year wishes to Watermark subscribers and describes her experience teaching a class on archives to students enrolled in a Historic Preservation Program at Mary Washington College.

ALHHS Annual Meeting

Jack Eckert, Chair of the ALHHS Local Arrangements committee, invites members to the ALHHS annual meeting in Boston on May 1, 2003. Registration material will be distributed in late January. For information about the program, tours, or questions about the meeting in general, contact Jack Eckert (jack_eckert@hms.harvard.edu) at the Countway Library

Membership Dues

A request for ALHHS membership dues for the calendar year 2003 was mailed in November. If you have not paid your dues, please send a check for $15 payable to ALHHS to Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, ALHHS Secretary/treasurer, Health Sciences Library, UW-Madison, 1305 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1593.

Nominations for Holloway Award and Recognition of Merit Award

Nominations for the Holloway Award and the Recognition of Merit Award are due by March 1, 2003. Please see below for a description of the awards and the nominations procedures

A Mysterious Web Tale

Lucretia McClure describes mysterious citations to the philately journal The Scalpel and Tongs of articles from the The Watermark and other journals. The articles do not appear in Scalpel and Tongs. The National Library of Medicine is currently investigating the problem.

Ex Libris

Compiled and edited by Lucretia McClure, Ex Libris contains news and announcements from Medical Historical Collections. Featured in this issue are descriptions of two exhibitions, Conception to Birth at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, and The Language of the Age: Depictions of Medicine in Graphic Satire at the Countway Library of Medicine, the announcement of the opening of the McGovern Center at the Houston Academy of Medicine, and the lecture series of several institutions

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 new exhibition, Dream Anatomy, which opened on October 9, 2002 and will run through July 31, 2003.

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.