Article by Blake Spencer – July 7, 2023
At Yale University’s Center for Preservation and Conservation, there is an air of care and fastidiousness when dealing with materials that hold irreplaceable value to multiple audiences. From arabesque covers bearing allegories relating to metaphysics to the material world of important information detailed within those covers, there... Read More
The Medical Library is happy to announce that we have licensed Sketchy Medical for the upcoming academic year. To access, click "Continue with your school" and select Yale.
This popular resource received a 90% student satisfaction rate on the LCME Independent Student Analysis Report and ranked the highest of the online learning materials for medical education!
Sketchy Medical’s creative... Read More
The Medical Library recently added dozens of new resources to our collections as well as upgraded access to some existing ones. Highlights include:
ERIC and Agricola are now searchable via the OVID interface, which maximizes advanced search capabilities.
New modules are available in Aquifer (Clinical Excellence, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Integrated Illness Scripts... Read More
The Medical Library is pleased to annouce a new banner exhibition "This Lead Is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in their Communities" produced by the National Library of Medicine.
The exhibition is on view in the corridor between SHM L 112A/B from July 3 - August 12, 2023.
"This Lead Is Killing Us" explores the story of citizen action taken against an environmental... Read More
The medical library will be closed Tuesday, July 4, 2022. We will reopen on Wednesday, July 5th at 7:30am. As always, the 24/7 room will remain open and accessible via the staircase by the library entrance.
Access to American Hospital Association (AHA) Data
After years of requests for American Hospital Association (AHA) data, the Medical and Marx libraries at Yale have made access to this important U.S. hospital data available for all Yale affiliates. Containing multiple decades of annual survey and supplemental datasets, this data resource provides information about U.S. hospitals'... Read More
We are pleased to announce awards for our first Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grants since 2019, to two recipients, Michael Ortiz (Harvard University) and Jiemin (Tina) Wei (Harvard University). Ortiz’s proposed project, “American Nature: Life and Political Community in Post-Reconstruction United States, 1877-1927,” shifts the debate on citizenship away from strictly... Read More
Starting June 26th, the Morse and Historical Library Reading Rooms will undergo a series of small renovations. Enhancements in the Historical Library Reading Room will include new area rugs to help with sound attenuation, new tables with surface-accessible power, and improved and more efficient lighting. Updates in the Morse Reading Room will include refinished tables with new lighting and... Read More
Spring 2023 graduates will continue to have access to the Medical Library and to library resources (print and digital) until September 2023. After September, graduates are eligible for tiered borrowing privileges.
Alumni privileges for the Medical Library include:
Stacks Pass: Access to the Medical Library facilities and stacks. No borrowing privileges. Free.
Alumni Standard... Read More
On view in the Medical Library's hallway exhibition space through August 18th
In 2013, the Historical Library acquired a collection of 2,600 posters with international public health and safety messages, representing 57 countries and several global health organizations. The posters are selections from the collection dating between 1963-2008. Many represent collaborations between national... Read More
