By on May 16, 2014 - 11:03am
We've finished two more rounds of digitization, completing our second Digital Conversion MicroGrant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Now available are the Society of the Lying-In Hospital Annual Reports, 1951-1965; the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Announcements, 1989-1996, 1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2005-2007; the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Annual Reports, 1990-1997; and the Cornell University Medical College Announcements, 1985-1993. If you visit the Medical Center Archives' Digital Collections page on the Internet Archive you will find thousands of pages of material documenting the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Weill Cornell Medical College, and their numerous antecedent and affiliated institutions. Here's a screenshot of the homepage.
From here you can navigate through the digital publications (especially helpful is the option to search by subject/keyword), you can see what is the most downloaded item of the previous week (Coming in second last week was the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing announcement, 1955-1960. The School of Nursing was closed in 1979. By the way, we have an extensive collection documenting the School of Nursing.), or you can find out what are the most downloaded items from our digital publications (it's the Society of the New York Hospital Annual Report, 1960-1962 with 499 downloads).
From our homepage on the Internet Archive you can also access the extensive Medical Heritage Library (MHL). The MHL is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world's leading libraries who are dedicated to giving access to historical resources in medicine. To search the MHL, just click on the breadcrumb navigation near the top of the page (highlighted in green above).
Our Digital Collections represent just a fraction of our extensive archives. For information about these collections, questions about any of the other archival collections at the Medical Center Archives, or to set up an appointment for research, please email us at email-archives@med.cornell.edu or phone us at 212.746.6072. We look forward to assisting you in your research.
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