medical heritage library
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Medical Heritage Library. Mission. Content-centered digital community Supporting research, education, dialog History of medicine contributing to understanding of past and present health and society Body of curated digital materials - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mission• Content-centered digital community• Supporting research, education, dialog• History of medicine contributing to
understanding of past and present health and society
• Body of curated digital materials• Access point to digital and non-digital
holdings of contributing institutions• Facilitates discourse around medical
practice, human health
Scope of the MHL• 58,000+ items• Text, audio-visual, audio– Journals, monographs, pamphlets,
ephemera, video• 1502-2000s• Primarily in English, but also
French, German, Spanish, Latin, Portuguese...
Scope
Scope
Participation Levels
• Principal contributor: any institution that dedicates resources or staff time to achieve MHL goals and objectives.
• Content contributor: any institution that adds digitized materials to the MHL.
• Contributor: any institution that publicizes the MHL and promotes its use and development.
Searchability: Internet Archive
Searchability: MHL Tool
How to Find the MHL• Website: www.medicalheritage.org/
From there, link to any of these:
• Internet Archive: archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary
• Twitter: twitter.com/MedicalHeritage• Facebook:
www.facebook.com/medicalheritagelibrary
• Email: [email protected] • Search:
http://mhl.countway.harvard.edu/search