Scholarly returns: Patterns of research in a medical archives

Archivaria

Volumn 41, Issue , 1996, Pages 158-187

  McCall, Nancy ^a,b   Mix, Lisa A ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins Medicine   (United States)

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EID: 79959811275     PISSN: 03186954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (16)

1. Clark A. Elliott, "Citation Patterns and Documentation for the History of Science: Some Methodological Considerations, " American Archivist 44 (198 I), pp. 131-42.
2. Luciana Duranti, "Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. (Part IV), " Archivaria 31 (Winter 1990). p. 14.
3. Frederic Miller, "Use, Appraisal, and Research: A Case Study of Social History, " American Archivist 49 (1986). pp. 371-92.
4. Catherine Hidalgo-Nunez-Wohlleben's study of the history of medicine literature included journal articles from 1977 and 1987.
5. Paul Anderson, "Appraisal of the Papers of Biomedical Scientists and Physicians for a Medical Archives, " Bull. Med. LibxAssoc. 73, no. 4 (October, 1985).
6. Paul Anderson, "Archives as Fundamental Resources for the Study and Teaching of History, " in Nancy McCall and Lisa A. Mix, eds., Designing Archival Programs to Advunce Knowledge in the Health Fields (Baltimore, 1995).
7. Garth Graham, Cornelius F. Burk, and Henry E. McCandless, "Governance and Information: Myths, Realities and the Future, " Canadian Parlirtnzentary Review (Winter 1994), pp. 1-6.
8. We consulted registration files and guest books for documentation of on-site use and telephone logs and correspondence files for documentation of remote use. Because the three divisions of the archival programme (historic records and personal papers, contemporary records, and fine arts and artifacts) had employed different criteria for the collection of user data, it was not possible to obtain precise figures for the overall number of users. Other complications in the review of statistics were the skewing of data when the Medical Archives was closed for extended periods in 1988 and 1993 to accommodate moves to new locations and when use figures rose in 1989 for the centennial of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and in 1993 for the centennial of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. By selecting three periods outside the range of skewed statistics (1986: Jan.-Dec.
9. The Halsted Society: Constitution, Bylaws, and List of Members (198 1).
10. Personal communication from Edward Morman (20 March 1996).
11. Joan D. Krizack, Docun1entation Plarzningfor the U.S. Health Cure Systenz (Baltimore, 1994) for a more expanded discussion and a definition of health system functions.
12. Nancy McCall, Lisa A. Mix, and Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, investigators, "Digitizing Patient Information and Laboratory Research Data for Archival Reference and Research. " Conducted as part of the Research Fellowship Program for the Study of Modern Archives, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan.
13. Peter Gwynne, "Historians of Science Face Up to Funding Crisis, Employment Crunch, " The Scientist 10, nos. 3-5 (5 February 1996), p. I.
14. This Janet Doe Lecture on the History or Philosophy of Medical Librarianship was presented 16 May 1994 at the Ninety-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, San Antonio, Texas. It has been published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library as so cia ti or 83, no. I (January 1995), pp. 1-7.
15. A.M. Odlyzko, "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals:' Internutionul Journal oj'Hunzcln-Cony>uter Studies 42 (1995), pp. 71-122.
16. J.J. O'Donnell, "St. Augustine to NREN: the Tree of Knowledge and How it Grows, in M. Strangelove, Directory qf Electronic Journa1.s. Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists 3rd ed. (Washington, D.C., 1993), pp. I-1 1.