New digital collections are now online - Cornell University Medical Announcements, 1960-1985 and Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Announcements, 1954-1989

We've just finished up the digitization of institutional publications documenting institutions related to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The Cornell University Medical Announcements, 1960-1985, are available online via the Internet Archive. From February 2013 to November 2013, 59 physical volumes, consisting of 27,020 pages and 126 foldouts were scanned. These annual reports and announcements document the establishment and evolution of hospitals, medical education, and nursing in New York City and in the United States. The digitization was made possible through a micro-grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO).

We are also pleased to announce that the Medical Center Archives is the recipient of another digitization micro-grant from METRO. This round will be documenting women's health care and graduate education in New York City. Annual reports from the New York Asylum for Lying-In Women (1824-1908), the New York Infant Asylum (1872-1908), the Nursery and Child's Hospital (1854-1909), the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital (1910-1934), the Society of the Lying-In Hospital (1832-1948), and the Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary (1905-1932), which merged with New York Hospital in 1932 to become the Pediatrics Department, will be digitized. Already hot off the scanner are 28 volumes of Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Announcements, 1954-1989.

We'll keep you posted as more digital collections become available. The Medical Center Archives' digital collections are also part a much larger and ever-growing digital collection from the Medical Heritage Library, a "digital curation collaborative among some of the world's leading medical libraries, "promoting" free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine."