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Presentation given at "Discovering Collections, discovering communities" RLUK and National Archives conference in Birmingham 29/30th October 2014 #dcdc14 Discusses collaboration between clinician/academic and library staff to create and curate human genetics historical library.
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The Human Genetics Historical Library: collecting for the future
Dr Karen F. PierceCataloguing Librarian
Professor Peter S. Harper
http://www.genmedhist.org
Genetics & Medicine Historical Network
GenMedHist newsletter; editor Judith Friedman [email protected]
Donations and Bequests
Paul Polani 1914-2006
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith 1931-
Library
Priorities of Collecting
Date Range of Items in the Human Genetics Historical Library
1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
2 3 6 13 26 33 60 84
195
526
707
626
457
151
14
Number of items
Duplicates
Variety of Material Included
Key Items of Interest (1)
Francis Galton 1822-1911
Key Items of Interest (2)
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko 1898 –1976
Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov 1872–1940
Practicalities of Promotion
Peter Keelan Head of Special Collections & Archives
SCOLAR blog: http://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/
Exhibition in SCOLAR
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/digital/insrv-scolar-genetics.html#top
Collaboration
Tim Powell
(Archives)
Peter Keelan
(SCOLAR)
Prof. Peter
Harper
Simon Coleman
(Archives)
Karen Pierce
(Cataloguer)
Any Questions?
