V i . WellcomeLibrary (=_ y \ The Wellcome Library — a unique and surprising resource The Wellcome Library preserves Welcoming... the record of medicine past and - The Wellcome Library is a The Wellcome Trust is an independent _ present to foster understanding — reference library open to the biomedical research-funding charity, _ of medicine, its history, and its public, Monday to Saturday, established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936. It is funded from impact in society. free of charge. Friendly and a private endowment which is managed _ knowledgeable staff are on hand a, The history of medicine is much — with long-term stability and growth _ to help users, while the Wellcome more than just a chronology of | in mind. The Trust’s mission is to foster Library's enquiry service and - diseases, treatments, pioneers and | and promote research with the aim _ website are tailored for those isgtineen breakthroughs. 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Subject the public and policy makers. impacted on the human condition : coverage includes: _ ; Bae _ physically, spiritually and www.wellcome.ac.uk _ «History of medicine and science be i psychologically. rie * Evolution, religion, social history ig sT his holistic a has, Public health and sanitation oT resulted ii na unique resource of _ @ Public engagement with science eye xtraordinary depth and sia ‘TheWWe llcome. Library ii s full of — ¢« Biomedical ethics “surprises, even.f or those with *S cience policy bcshsune outside medical science, ee ite A ins _¢@ Folklore, witchcraft, magic FF rom’ a‘ medical prescription ¢ Astrology — ‘w ritten on ‘papyrus c.1100 BC, ¢ Botany, botanical illustration, ree up-to-the-minute | press ~ herbals | ; “cuttings on human cloning, the ra Wellcome Library charts the eh Cookery and nutrition. here "history 3a nd development :o f | Me ‘traditional and non-traditional _ medicine from all cultures and : periods. Be itt hrough text, vi "pictures or moving images, the - ae :r ich and fascinating story of | medicine is revealed and explained, J : chalonae and eau ‘Warning: Spitting is > dangerous’ poster by the National Association for the prevention of Tuberculosis, c. 1950s. SA/NPT, Box 14 22501631446 Introduction Acquisitions 2003 Preserving the medical web The Wellcome Library's medical website archiving project. Treasure trove The Oriental Collections revealed in a sumptuous book. Internet gateways Online databases are providing access to a multitude of quality-assured resources in biomedical ethics and public engagement. 10 Reaching out An initiative to stimulate interest, facilitate learning and increase understanding among new and existing audiences. 1v. Mapping Medicine 13 Research Resources ie Looking ahead... 12 Statistical summary Staff list Exhibitions Patterns of use and statistical trends Acquisitions Contact details and opening hours A library for life that it is through such media that m@ What makes for a successful the vast riches of the Wellcome and thriving research library? Collections will be made more Is it the strength and depth of accessible, so many more people the collections, and the good can appreciate the long history services offered to users? Is it the of human health and disease, broadening of its horizons, and a in past and foreign cultures as proactive approach to welcoming well as our own, and perhaps new audiences? Or is rt an e-agenda see today’s science and medicine focusing on new technology and in a slightly different light. the opportunities (or threats) of The Wellcome Library has also the digital age? been working to ensure that | believe it is a mixture of all material on the web is captured these things, and that a balanced for posterity and is made more mix of activity, which keeps all widely available. This is one way these elements in view, is the right in which the Wellcome Trust is one. It is therefore good to be working to ensure that information @ As a severely afflicted bibliophile, resources are freely available able to feel that the Wellcome | am fascinated by the Wellcome to those that need them — an Library has struck that balance in Library, an occasionally important contribution to our 2003, and that the year has again overlooked but crucial part of broader work on open access. been one which has seen exciting the Wellcome Trust. There is new developments, without surely no finer collection of This Annual Review features neglecting core values. material related to the history some of the highlights of the of medicine in the country; year. The next few years will Once again the Wellcome Library worldwide, few collections can bring important changes and served a diverse range of users, equal it. redevelopment, as a new Library with increased visitor numbers and Head is appointed and the over 3000 new readers registered. We are sad to be losing our Wellcome Library prepares for The impact and importance of Librarian, David Pearson, its move into refurbished public who has made an enormous new technology to open up access space at 183 Euston Road in 2006. contribution to the Wellcome to collections was shown by the There will be some unavoidable Library’s development over the 62 per cent rise in searches disruption of access to the past seven years. |! would like to carried out on the web catalogue collections during the period of thank David for all his hard (from 373 000 in the previous year, refurbishment when the Library work and commitment to the to 606 000). Those collections is housed in the 210 Euston Road Wellcome Trust. were kept up to date with new building (see page 20). However, publications and also augmented Under David, the Wellcome we can look forward to many Library has begun to make much exciting opportunities to bring greater use of new technologies the wealth of the Wellcome such as the web. | firmly believe Collections to wider prominence in both real and virtual worlds. Mark Walport Director of the Wellcome Trust with a number of special and The growing importance of the historic ttems, showcased on the Internet means that increasing following pages. It was good to see quantities of the information that the Wellcome Library's remarkable future researchers will rely upon Oriental treasures presented to will only ever exist in digital form, wider view through the publication and the Wellcome Library needs of Pearls of the Orient, edited by to extend its mission accordingly. Nigel Allan (see page 7). The Web Archiving Project (see page 6), a new development The Wellcome Library is known undertaken with other major and loved by its regular users but players in the national library we are always keen to find ways landscape, is an example of the of developing and widening its kind of leadership through appeal. In 2003 we saw the partnership that we seek to beginning of a new experiment encourageW.e saw this again at with the appointment of our first the very end of 2003, when the Outreach Officer, Sam Cairns, Wellcome Trust agreed to co-fund, with a remit to take the Library's with the Joint Information Systems resources to people who might Committee and the US National not seek us out for themselves, Library of Medicine, a project to but who might be glad to discover digitize the backfiles of a number things once offered. Her enthusiastic of key medical journals to make report of flying classrooms and new them freely available on the web — partnerships (see page 10) is a very an exciting project with which to encouraging start to what we hope round off the year will be an ongoing programme. | personally am signing off as The digital agenda is a high priority Wellcome Librarian for the last for us and the year has seen a time, but | have no doubt that number of enhancements to the my successor will find plenty of Library's automated systems, opportunity to continue to including: the completion of the develop one of the great libraries first phase of retroconversion of of London. our archives and manuscripts catalogue; the introduction of online requesting of closed-stack books; and the initial planning for a new seamless access system to link all our catalogues together. David Pearson Librarian of the Wellcome Library 1 Art of seduction? 2 Oral hygiene A corrupt old man tries to seduce Featuring Dr George Cunningham a woman by offering her a hypnotic (1852-1919), the flamboyant draught in her drink. A new dental pioneer and so-called acquisition for the Wellcome ‘father’ of preventive dentistry in Library's Iconographic Collections, England, this re-edited compilation this image depicts what is now is all that remains of the original called ‘date rape’ (a term first 1913 production. Donated by the recorded in the 1970s in the USA. British Dental Association, it is a Coloured lithograph by C Motte, 1820s. perfect illustration of Cunningham's Catalogue no. 5114i long-standing determination to win official recognition of the importance of dental health for public health and national efficiency. Came the Dawn (Pathé Fréres, 1913), 6 minutes 30 seconds of 6mm film. Medical Film and Audio Collections, uncatalogued TtWLcthyaihhoheesbeenarl r rtol,ai urcnygou hmeodeu t icwoadtarntcoifeos aeqlt vnulhweige lseciot tpiio onnss . DON'T LIGHT UPI INDEX SANITATIS. NS Yn Hehons vnd vafk ntit- life Buchlin/gende Benger der gefundchene/ Den jhe- nen/fo Franck feind/ond nic wiffens haben/wie/wo vii mit was maffen fie wir derumb beEousmen mdgen vnd crlangé recht volEommende gefisndebeye sur troft gemacht vnd antag geben. Durch Phitippum Begardi der Fresen EunfE vi Argnei Doctozem/der sete der ZeSb lichen Reps ferlichen ReFiacec Wohrnb s Phyficum vnd Letbartsec. NOW ! | ‘pe ¥ HEAVY SMOKING CAN CAUSE LUNG CANCER ET ES G3u Foose peatedS ebaffiag us Wagner. 3 Japanese manipulation the general public in the prevention Massage and chiropractice have of chest and heart diseases. These long had an established place in The material bears renewed the Japanese arsenal of medical significance in the 21st century with practice stretching back, at least, the re-emergence of TB. Examples to the eighth century. The two of early antismoking advertising scrolls acquired by the Wellcome produced by the Chest and Heart Library date from the 19th century. Association are also in the collection. They comprise a pair of emakimono ‘Don’t light up again’ antismoking poster (horizontal scrolls prepared by produced by the Chest and Heart Association, c. 1960s. SA/PNT, Box 14 pasting single sheets together to form a long roll). Many images show 5 Faustian link a chiropractor treating patients Philipp Begardi was town physician depicted in various positions of in Worms, Germany, and wrote discomfortT.h e delicacy of the Index Sanitatis in German for a pigments is typical of the Shijo lay audience. Published in 1539, style, which often represents the book's longest chapter is on scenes from everyday life. quackery and includes a reference Japanese collection, uncatalogued to the contemporary charlatan 4 No smoking and soothsayer Faustus, whose The recently acquired records of name was later associated with the National Association for the the legendary magician Dr Faustus. Prevention of Tuberculosis and its The title-page woodcut, showing a successor bodies the Chest and patient with compound fractures, Heart Association and the Chest, was originally used in a surgical Heart and Stroke Association work of 1497, provide a valuable research resource Philipp Begardi, Index Sanitatis. on treatment and rehabilitation Ein schéns und vast nutzlichs Btichlein, of TB patients in the 20th century; genant Zeyger der Gesundtheyt. Worms, 1539. EPB 7402/D medical developments such as mass radiography services and See page 19 for a list of further BCG vaccination; and education of acquisitions made in 2003. es cae Ser ass ee. Preserving the medical web In the field of medicine the ¢ The Wellcome Library should The Wellcome component to web is the pre-eminent source of establish a pilot medical web this pilot project will focus on information. All the major journals, archiving project using the selective identifying key medical websites databases are available through approach, as pioneered by the and obtaining permission from the web, and so too is a raft of National Library of Australia rights holders to archive these information sources — of varying sites. Archived sites will be (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html). quality — on virtually any matter catalogued and made freely ¢ As web archiving is too great relating to health. However, accessible via the web. an issue for any single institution, relatively little attention has been this project should aim to work If the Wellcome Library is to realize paid to long-term archiving — the with partner institutions. its mission — namely, to preserve average life of a web page is just the record of medicine past and 44 days.’ However, unless Since the publication of this present — then it must extend its arrangements to archive medical study, the Wellcome Trust and JISC collecting activity into the digital websites are put into place now, have been working to establish a arena. The web, which has had the future medical historian will UK-wide pilot web-archiving a huge impact on the availability be deprived of this rich source of initiative. In October 2003 a UK of medical information and has information. Web Archiving Consortium was also facilitated new types of formed comprising the British In recognition of this problem communication between patients Library, the National Archives, the Wellcome Trust and the Joint and doctors, is one of the most National Library of Wales, National Information Systems Committee important media to archive. Library of Scotland, JISC and the (JISC) commissioned the UK Wellcome Trust. This two-year pilot project will Office for Library Networking to demonstrate whether key provide a set of recommendations? This Consortium is now in the websites can be archived (and on how these organizations could process of appointing a contractor archived on a sustainable basis), ~ Illustration of ethnic develop web-archiving initiatives to to provide the infrastructure that groups in China: Sat Tzu thus ensuring that future historians meet the needs of their constituent will enable members to capture tribespeople from the are not denied access to the rich communities. Key recommendations websites and to host the web- Kueichou province. and diverse sources of information from this report were: archiving service. It is hoped that Wellcome Album no. 3 that are published on the web. the service will be up and running by summer 2004. Robert Kiley Head of Systems Strategy Wellcome Library ' Library of Congress. Collections Policy Statement: Web site capture and archiving. www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/webarchive.html The full report and recommendations are available from: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_feasibility.pdf Treasure trove @ The Wellcome Library's Oriental With the publication of Pearls For the Far East, three Chinese Collections reflect the vision and of the Orient: Asian treasures albums of ‘foreigners’ are wide interests of their collector, from the Wellcome Library in 2003, described and the minority races Sir Henry Wellcome. Geographically the wealth and diversity of the of the Chinese Empire depicted: they cover European Ottoman Oriental Collections can be the final essay relates to Japanese Turkey, the Middle East, North enjoyed by everyone. Edited by medical books and illustration, and Africa, Central Asia, India, China Nigel Allan, Curator of the Oriental the role which block-printed and and Japan. Manuscripts in over 40 Collections, and lavishly illustrated, manuscript books played in languages, on materials such as the book consists of essays Japanese culture from the 17th to paper, parchment, papyrus, bones, written by scholars who have 19th centuries. Pearls of the Orient palm leaves, silver, bamboo, ivory contributed to our knowledge and is published by Serindia and tree bark, cover a huge range understanding of the collections (wwwserindia.com) in conjunction of topics loosely linked around over the last decades. with the Wellcome Trust. health and society in these areas. The Middle and Near Eastern Asia In October 2004 more of the Over the last two decades section includes a description of Oriental Collections can be seen specialist scholars and linguists two Hebrew marriage certificates in a major exhibition at the Brunei have worked hard to catalogue (ketubbot), a study on Armenian Gallery, School of Oriental and this huge body of material and illuminated manuscripts, essays on African Studies, London. Centred bring it to the attention of the astrological images in Persian on the subject of wellbeing: public. The catalogue of Haddad manuscripts and Islamic calligraphy. medicine, religion and society in medical Arabic manuscripts Sections on South, South-East and Asia, over 200 items from the preserved in the Wellcome Inner Asia deal with miniatures Wellcome Library's Oriental Library is now available online. and texts from Indian manuscripts, Collections will be displayed. illustrations from the life of the This will be a stunning http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/cat/haddad Buddha, travels of a Buddhist opportunity to see yet more of monk to heaven and hell and the the extraordinary collections of publication of a rare series of Sir Henry Wellcome and follows Tibetan banners. on from the highly popular 2003 ‘Medicine Man’ exhibition at the British Museum. 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