New
On-Line Guide to the William H. Welch Collection
The Archives announces
the on-line publication of the Guide
to the William H. Welch Collection.
This guide provides a documentary overview of Welch's
life (1850-1934) from childhood through career and post-retirement
years. It contains a listing of materials in the collection
and an index to the materials listed. Because Welch
was a major figure in early twentieth-century medicine and
public health, this collection is an especially rich resource
for study.
On-Line Exhibit Honoring William H.
Welch
The Archives announces a new on-line exhibit
to commemorate William H. Welch's many contributions to medical
education and to public health. The display, entitled, William
H. Welch, A Tribute Exhibition, also celebrates the
150th anniversary of his birth.
On-Line Guide
to the Adolf Meyer Collection
The Archives announces a new Web-based Guide to the Adolf Meyer Collection.
The guide includes biographical information about Adolf Meyer,
a detailed inventory of the collection, and indices of personal
and corporate names.
On-Line Catalog of the Personal Papers
Collections
The archives is pleased to announce the Personal Papers Catalog, a new Web-based catalog
of over 200 of the repository's personal paper collections.
Each catalog entry contains a biographical sketch, portrait,
and description of the scope and
content of the collection. Folder listings will eventually
be added. Entries are available in both HTML and SGML/EAD.
The Archives Announces an Exhibit Celebrating
the
150th Anniversary of William Osler's Birth
The exhibit, presents a broad array of materials documenting
the life and contributions of this epic figure in the history
of medicine.
JAMA Reviews
Archives Online Conference
The Journal
of the American Medical Association takes an in-depth
look at the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives' cyberconference
on psychobiologist, Curt Richter, in an article entitled,
Cyberconference Helps Archivists Manage Trove of Scientific
Papers.
In the December
25th, 1996 issue of JAMA, (in the Medical News &
Perspective section) writer, Lynne Lamberg examines the
contributions of psychobiologist, Curt Richter, M.D.; and
the archives efforts to use the World Wide Web to query the
scientific and archival communities for input in determining
the future of the voluminous collection of laboratory data
Richter left behind. (See our July 1996 news note below, for
more information.)
The Archives
Launches an International Conference
on the World Wide Web (1996)
This conference, cosponsored
with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
pays tribute to Curt P. Richter (1894 -1988) a pioneer in
the field of psychobiology, who developed various subdisciplines,
including chronobiology and ingestive behavior studies. Dr.
Richter's legacy includes a vast body of data from nearly
six decades of research. The purpose of this conference is
to explore how the research data that Curt P. Richter collected
throughout his career at Johns Hopkins may be preserved and
utilized in ongoing teaching and research activities. By using
the example of Richter's data as a case study, we hope to
stimulate interest in ways primary data from other research
laboratories may be recycled for future use in teaching and
research.
The conference
invites scientists from Richter's fields of investigation
along with social scientists, historians, archivists, and
librarians to discuss and debate the value of this research
data as a resource for future scientific investigations.
Bibliography by Toby
Gordon, Sc.D.
Compiled in August,
1996, this bibliography gathers together sources relating
to the history of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and
the biographies of individuals who have been affiliated with
the Medical Institutions.
Bibliography of The History of The Johns
Hopkins Medical Institutions
Tribute to William S. Halsted
William
S. Halsted Tribute
This tribute
provides a glimpse of the life and work of surgeon,William
S. Halsted. The
textual documents and images were compiled and selected by
Toby Gordon.
The Archives Wins Major
Award
The Alan Mason
Chesney Medical Archives was the recipient of The Society
of American Archivists' Distinguished Service Award for 1995.
This award recognizes outstanding accomplishment and is one
of SAA's highest honors. The SAA awards committee noted that,
"...outstanding archival
repositories...tend to share two qualities: excellent collections
that are actually used and professional leadership of the
staff"
Research Projects in
Process
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