Medical Books at Yale from 1701 to 1933
Founding of the Yale Medical Library, 1934-1941
The Yale Medical Library, 1941-1990
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Growth of Electronic Resources, 1990-2001
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THE MEDICAL LIBRARY AT YALE, 1701-2001
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Growth of Electronic Resources, 1990-2001
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THE INFORMATION ROOM, 1990 |
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In 1990, the new sky-lit Information Room had a large collection of reference books, Author/Title and Subject card catalogs, and no workstations. Since then there has been a revolution in access to Library information. Today patrons have electronic access to over 2,500 biomedical journals, textbooks, hundreds of databases and databanks, medical education software, and a host of other reference resources, all provided by the Library. Librarians play an increasing role in teaching and education to enable patrons to make the maximum use of these resources. |
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MEDLINE ON CD-ROM (MEDEXPRESS), 1991 |
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MEDEXPRESS, located on just one computer in the Information Room, represented a significant improvement over miniMEDLINE because it provided public electronic access to all of the bibliographical records in MEDLINE going back to 1966. MiniMEDLINE, also confined to only a few terminals in the Information Room, gave access to bibliographical records of only the core journals and more recent literature. |
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NETMENU |
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Netmenu, launched in 1992, was the Medical Library's first interface for its workstations. |
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WEB HOME PAGE, 1996 |
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Shown here in this issue of
Connections is an early version of the Library's home page
on the Web. The Web site (http://info.med.yale.edu/library/) was launched
in 1994 and redesigned in 1996. It has gone through several more redesigns
since. Connections is published jointly by ITS-Med and the
Medical Library. |
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RETROSPECTIVE CONVERSION, 1998-2000 |
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In October 1998, the author-title catalog of the Medical Library was shipped to OCLC for "retrospective conversion," or the creation of online records from card records. In this photograph, Christine Melnyk, Catalogue Assistant, is packing the cards from the card catalog in the Information Room. Since 2000, the print holdings of the Medical Library, including the Historical Library, have been fully represented on ORBIS, the Library's online catalog. |
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THE INFORMATION ROOM, 1999 |
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In place of the round table in the foreground, there are now productivity workstations. Photograph by F. Poole. |
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CD-ROM ARCHIVING THE LIBRARY'S WEBSITE AS OF 1999 |
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CURRENT HOME PAGE : THE MEDICAL LIBRARY HAS TWO DOORS |
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One door is the attractive paned glass door designed by Grosvenor Atterbury and the other is the virtual front (http://www.med.yale.edu/library/) door visited over 500,000 times a month. |
| Timeline of Technology and Electronic Resources |
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HISTORICAL LIBRARY, 1999 |
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The Historical Library's collection of rare medical books and prints is one of the best in the world. Photograph by F. Poole. |
| THE CURRENT EPH LIBRARY | |
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The current EPH Library, located across College Street from the main EPH building, is part of the Medical Library and of the University Library, though it is funded separately. |
| THE YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING LIBRARY | |
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It was only recently that the School of Nursing Library was integrated into the Medical Library and the University Library. In the summer of 2000, the nursing journals and books were transferred to the Medical Library and for the first time, cataloged on ORBIS. The Library in the School of Nursing, located at 100 Church Street South, now consists of reference books, the historical collection, and new workstations. The Medical Library staff participates in providing state-of-the-art services to nursing students and faculty. |