News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
The following event has been postponed from its original April 18 date. The event will be moving to an all-virtual format with details to follow. The Oral History Program at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will hold a panel discussion and view videos from a recently acquired collection Read More …
Join the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library for a webinar sponsored in celebration of the library’s 100th year anniversary. Speaker: John Banja, PhD- Emory Center for Ethics Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 1-2pm Register: https://tinyurl.com/bdh6uuad Having served on the Emory faculty for four decades and observed remarkable changes in health care economics and its delivery over Read More …
In response to student feedback, the WHSC Library will offer restricted access during upcoming exam period to current Emory students, staff, and faculty when using the main campus library at 1462 Clifton Rd. Hospital branch libraries will remain available to all EHC staff with key card access. This restriction will be enforced April 21st – Read More …
Dear undergraduate students, did you work on a stellar research paper or digital project during the past academic year? If your answer is yes, please consider submitting it for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. The Emory Libraries are again sponsoring an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians from Emory’s Atlanta and Read More …
From the Desk of the Director: I am pleased to announce that Kimberly R. Powell was selected as a participant in the 2023-2024 cohort of the Medical Library Association’s Rising Star program. Kim is the Research Impact Informationist for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. The MLA Rising Star program gives members the opportunity to Read More …
In recognition of March as National Women’s History Month and 2023 as the 100th anniversary year of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, we are honored to share brief highlights of the five women who have served as its library directors. Since the 1923 founding of the WHSC Library, originally dedicated as the A.W. Calhoun Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is proud to announce the opening of our latest exhibition, Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on WHSC Library Exhibits. The exhibition highlights the efforts of Emory faculty and library staff, past and present, to tell the history of medicine, nursing, public health, and the health sciences from an Read More …
The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library was established in 1923 with a $10,000 gift from the Calhoun Family to support the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1924, M. Myrtle Tye was selected as the first full-time librarian and tasked with building and maintaining the library collections. Following Tye’s death in 1933, a $175 gift Read More …
The library now provides access to NEJM Evidence, a monthly digital journal from New England Journal of Medicine Group, that presents original research in clinical trial design and clinical decision-making. NEJM Evidence focuses on providing context and critical evaluation of the methods and results supporting clinical decision-making. Access is open to all Emory University faculty, Read More …
The Past is Present: Medical History highlights from the WHSC Library collections Now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library are highlights from the history of medicine collections, in print and electronic format. Primary historical works as well as modern approaches to historical topics are featured in this selection of books on medical Read More …