Beginning August 3rd, the UCBA Library Give & Take Exchange Rack will be unavailable during the 2012-2013 academic year due to the renovation project. Continue reading
UCBA Library Closed: August 6th through August 10th
By Heather Maloney
The UC Blue Ash Library will be closed for relocation from Monday, August 6th through Friday, August 10th. The Library will reopen on Monday, August 13th and will resume Break hours: 12-5pm Monday-Thursday and Fridays from 12-4pm during break. Click here for a full list of Library hours. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Dr. Sabin and His Travels
By: Richard Sookoor, Sabin Student Assistant
Travel Memorabilia from Europe, South America, and Japan
While perhaps never considering himself an adventurer, Dr. Sabin was surprisingly well traveled. Considering the span of his career, both military and academic, it might not seem unusual to visit quite so many different countries, though it is remarkable nonetheless.
Though he admits his adoration of living in the US, it seems the desire to travel was well within Dr. Sabin’s nature. Having traveled to at least 32 different countries* in his life, the opportunity to experience so many different cultures and lifestyles appears to have been well exploited. From cities as exotic as Dakar [1] and Bombay (at least in the 1960’s) to more contemporary locales like Stockholm and Paris, Dr. Sabin certainly realized the divergence of a (then) disconnected world. Continue reading
Free Trial: BMJ Case Reports
A free trial to BMJ Case Reports until August 31, 2012 at http://casereports.bmj.com! BMJ Case Reports has published more than 2000 peer-reviewed cases making it the world’s largest repository of clinical cases online. The case reports published online cover over 32 specialties and topics.
The free trial to BMJ Case Reports entitles UC users to:
- Submit an unlimited number of cases (Please note: requires a Fellowship code – contact edith.starbuck@uc.edu to request the code.)
- Access over 2000 peer-reviewed case reports across all specialties
- Reuse any of the published material for teaching and personal use without any further permission
- Search published cases by specialty, type of case, patient demographics and date of publication
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We encourage you to check out BMJ Case Reports, submit your own cases, and let us know if you’d like the library to subscribe to this resource. Please send comments or questions to edith.starbuck@uc.edu
Welcoming the Newest Bearcats with Fun and Games
UC Libraries play an active role in welcoming new students to the University. This summer (through August 2), over 4,000 incoming students participating in UC New Student Orientation are visiting Langsam Library. While here, they engage in activities designed to be entertaining while at the same time informative about the various research resources and services available in the Libraries.
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: "Do What I Preach and Not What I Practice"
First page of letter from Dr. Sabin to Dr. Feldman, March 1951.
One of my favorite letters that I have come across so far during this project is a 1951 letter from Dr. Sabin to his colleague Dr. Harry A. Feldman. In the letter, Dr. Sabin commented on a grant application Dr. Feldman sent to the National Institutes of Health. As usual, Dr. Sabin did not hold back his opinions on what could be done to improve the application. But in his letter, he also urged Dr. Feldman to write his material up for publication. He wrote:
[I]ndicate what it is you want to test, why, how many, where from, etc. If you don’t mind my saying so, Harry, the best way to achieve that is to outline one or more papers for publication and see what data you would like to have rounded out, get that data rounded out, and I will pray to God that ultimately you will write it up for publication. I can only say that I wish you would do what I preach and not what I practice myself. If you don’t write up the work you do over the years, it is work done for your own personal benefit and does not add to the sum total of scientific knowledge.[1] Continue reading
The 2012 Spring/Summer Issue of the Henry R. Winkler Center Newsletter is Now Available
The Winkler Center is a medical archive, library, and exhibit facility that encourages visitors and researchers to explore Cincinnati’s rich medical history. The Winkler Center newsletter is published semi-annually, and is available at the Winkler Center’s website.
Spring/Summer Issue
This issue takes a look at the Winkler Center’s Mussey Collection. Five thousand mostly pre-1860 medical books, journals, and pamphlets make up the Mussey Collection. Rueben Diamond Mussey, MD, LLD was a professor of surgery at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, the chair of surgery at Miami Medical College, and the founding president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. The Mussey Collection was his personal medical library. It is a rare example of a virtually intact early- to mid-19th century medical library. For more information, visit the collection’s website.
In another article, “The Role of the History of Medicine in Today’s Medical School Curriculum,” Philip M. Diller, MD, PhD looks at how history is an important part of studying and practicing medicine. Dr. Diller is a Fred Lazarus, Jr. Endowed Professor and Chairman with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and a member of the Winkler Center’s Advisory Board.
Also included are updates on the Albert B. Sabin archive digitization project and the processing of the Henry J. Heimlich archive.
The Winkler Center’s most recent benefactors are acknowledged. For information about becoming a supporter, please contact Margaret W. Wolf, Director of Development, at (513)556-0055 or peggy.wolf@uc.edu.
Contact the Winkler Center at (513)558-5120 or chhp@uc.edu if you would like to receive future newsletters.
ARB Makes the Poster Lineup for Archives Month
By: Kevin Grace
Every October, the Society of Ohio Archivists sponsors “Archives Month in Ohio” to encourage teachers, students, scholars and the general public to seek out and learn from the rich historical resources in the state. From the smallest community historical society to the largest public libraries and universities, the wealth of primary research material in Ohio contributes not only to appreciation of our heritage, but provides understanding of our current lives as well.
And each year, the SOA Archives Month Committee selects a specific topic to highlight repository holdings. In the past, some of the themes have been music, African American heritage, business, and sports. As part of the annual focus, exhibits, lectures, and other programs are offered and a promotional poster is printed. For 2012, the theme is “Peoples of Ohio” and southwestern Ohio will focus on Irish heritage. For the poster, the Archives & Rare Books Library contributed the image shown here of a piper from the Cincinnati Emerald Society of Police and Fired Pipes and Drums Corps performing in the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. This photo will accompany other wonderful images representing the state’s Native American, Greek, Slovak, Jewish, German, French, and African American citizens, for example. Posters will be available by late summer. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: What Worried Him Most
Dr. Sabin's handwritten response to a question asked by Ivan Klebanow, 1960
[Sabin Archivist’s Note: This week features the first blog post from Richard Sookoor, the Sabin Project student assistant. Richard is pursuing his Bachelor of Science degree in neurobiology from the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences here at the University of Cincinnati. He will be blogging on different Sabin-related topics as we work on the project. Please give Richard a warm welcome to the blogging world by reading his posts! -SB]
A typical opinion when speaking of scientists is that they are mostly entrenched in their work, sometimes unmindful of the world around them. However, for many scientists, their view of the world influences their research and scientific endeavors. Dr. Sabin proves to be a good example. Having been deployed to numerous conflict areas by the US Army Medical Corps during World War II, Dr. Sabin was well aware of the impact and outcomes of great wars. His experiences in these areas led him to pursue research focusing on dengue fever [1], Japanese B encephalitis [2], and sandfly fever [3] even after the completion of his military duty. Continue reading
The Albert B. Sabin Digitization Project: Check Us Out!
Dr. Sabin is seen here administering oral poliovirus vaccine to two children.
The Albert B. Sabin digitization project appeared in a couple of articles this week! I wanted to give you a heads-up on the articles from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), just in case you wanted to check them out for yourself.
The National Endowment for the Humanities article is the second part of a three part series featuring preservation and access projects that highlight medicine and the humanities. Joel Wurl, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access, wrote of the projects, “[T]he history of medicine bridges almost every domain of the humanities, from the study of philosophy and ethics to the examination of everyday social and cultural history. Far from being a narrow subfield of study, it opens a pathway for exploring some of the most fundamental questions of human experience over time.” The Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives definitely fits into this description of the history of medicine. Not only does the Sabin collection cover the well-known topics associated with him, such as virology and vaccine development, but due to his involvement and interest in so many different areas, the collection also includes materials on many other topics. These include science and the media, medical ethics, public health, politics and science, military medicine, tropical medicine, medical imperialism, and international and scientific cooperation.