Associate Director Holly Grossetta Nardini has been selected as a Fellow in the 2022/2023 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. Selection for participation in this program is highly competitive and a testament to Holly’s experience, talent, and recognized potential for future leadership within health sciences librarianship.
The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program prepares emerging leaders for... Read More
Post by curator Renata Nagy, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Renaissance Studies, Yale University
Explore our newest online exhibition: “Natural Interactions in the Book as Art and Making Knowledge”
When readers call up early printed books in libraries, they expect to see clean copies. It is a fair belief, for most rare library collections include books with the least signs of wear,... Read More
“Pasteur at 200”
Cushing Rotunda, August 24th, 2022 - January 20th, 2023
Join us at the Medical Library for our newest Rotunda exhibition! “Pasteur at 200” commemorates the work of French chemist Louis Pasteur, born December 27, 1822, along with his longer scientific legacy, which continues today. If you drink pasteurized milk, or take your pet for a rabies shot, Pasteur was the renowned... Read More
On January 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will update its Data Management and Sharing Policy to further accelerate biomedical research discovery through scientific data sharing.
The policy includes two main requirements:
submission of a data management and sharing plan
agreement to comply with that plan, including sharing and preserving data for the... Read More
Medical librarians have been extremely busy this summer orienting and educating new fellows, residents, and faculty members across the medical campus and Yale New Haven Hospital. These sessions give new and seasoned users the opportunity to meet their dedicated library liaison and receive a primer on the medical library’s numerous resources and services. Perhaps most importantly, these... Read More
The Medical Historical Library is delighted to announce two new gifts detailing student and patient health care activism starting in the 1960s.
Dr. Michael Charney, YSM class of 1972, donated his papers related to student activism in his Yale career. Charney was an editor of the Yale Medical Center Newsletter, a student activism newsletter for Yale School of Medicine produced in the late... Read More
Come visit the newest exhibition featured in the Medical Library’s Hallway space! Highlighted on the walls of our newest exhibition are posters reflecting activism on behalf of women, children, and the HIV/AIDS community, dating from 1970-1998. These posters provide snapshots of larger efforts by activists to challenge the status quo and promote the welfare of people who needed action from... Read More
The Historical Library, in coordination with the Department of Pediatrics, is helping to celebrating 100 years of Pediatrics at Yale through a new physical exhibition in the Medical Library’s Rotunda. Founded in 1921, Yale Pediatrics has always been on the forefront of research and clinical practice. The exhibition features material on some of the department’s initiatives, including:
Dr.... Read More
Images from the Bert Hansen Collection of medicine and public health in popular graphic art
Like audiences today, 19th-century readers of popular magazines and newspapers learned about public health initiatives and medical discoveries through articles and imagery. The Medical Historical Library team digitized over 500 images from The Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public... Read More
National Public Health Week is April 4-11, 2022 but the medical library is celebrating all month long! Please join us for two virtual lectures.
"Picturing Public Health” with Bert Hansen: Turning Points in Public Health History Conveyed through Prints"
By Bert Hansen, Professor Emeritus of History at CUNY Baruch College
April 5, 2022 at 4pm
The Cushing/Whitney Medical... Read More
