National Library of Medicine Announces Latest Release of Its "History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium"
National Library of Medicine Announces Latest Release of
Its "History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium"
Search-and-Discovery Tool Now Indexes over 3,600 Finding
Aids from 35 Institutions
The History of Medicine Division of the National Library
of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the
National Institutes of Health, is pleased to announce the latest release of its
History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html).
The Consortium now indexes over 3,600 finding aids from 35 institutions. The
consortium supports a search-and-discovery tool for archival resources in the
health sciences that are described by finding aids and held by various
institutions throughout the United States (and one Canadian). As with previous
releases the new content crawled consists of finding aids delivered as EAD, PDF
and HTML from a diverse institutional cohort.
The new content contributors (finding aids count) are:
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American Philosophical Society (80)
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Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (12)
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Boston Children's Hospital Archives (36)
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Duke Medical Center Archives (147)
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George Washington University (20)
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Rockefeller Archive Center (69)
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Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College (82)
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State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center (22)
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County Center for
Biological Sciences Archives (8)
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University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections
(69)
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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (20)
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University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (148)
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Eskind Biomedical Library Vanderbilt University (87)
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DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College (22)
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Wright State University Special Collections and Archives (59)
NLM invites libraries, archives and museums with finding
aids for collections in the history of medicine and health sciences to join the
Consortium.
For more information about the project or to request to
join the Consortium, please visit:
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John P. Rees
Archivist and Digital Resources Manager
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
301-496-8953