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  1. Organization Type: Library
    Address: 4720 Montgomery Lane P.O. Box 31220
    City: Bethesda
    State Or Province: Maryland
    Zip / Postal Code: 20824-1220
    Country: United States
    Telephone Number: 301-652-6611
    Fax Number: 301-656-3620
    Abstract: The Wilma L. West Library (WLW) acquires, organizes and retains literature and other media specific to occupational therapy and occupational science. Patrons may find material from related or supporting disciplines, such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry or psychology, and health care delivery or administration as it relates to occupational therapy. The library's catalog is titled OT SEARCH and is available on-line by subscription. However, researchers can access it free of charge in the library. The full text of the indexed resources is not in this database; just the bibliographic information to identify the material and an author's abstract, when one exists. As available, OT SEARCH is adding links to sources for full-text copies. Currently OT SEARCH contains over 37,200 records of materials dating from 1910 to the present. The WLW Library is open from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, by appointment only. Appointments should be made at least twenty-four hours before the planned visit. Materials published since 1940 are available for interlibrary loan and the library is a member of DOCLINE. The "Guide to the Archives of the American Occupational Therapy Association" is available on the AOTF website, on www.archive.org and directly upon request form the Wilma L. West Library of the AOTF Institute for the Study of Occupation and Health. The Archive of the American Occupational Therapy Association The Archive of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is housed in a separate room adjacent to the library and is maintained by the library’s staff. This special collection includes: correspondence and early reprints of the founders of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy; minutes and reports from the Association's governing boards, the Delegate/Representative Assembly, councils, and committees; records generated by AOTA's national office staff; minutes and/or proceedings from annual and midyear meetings; early legislation and grants important to occupational therapy's development; reports and publications from early occupational therapy schools and programs; records and correspondence concerning AOTA's interaction with other organizations or agencies; photographs of the Association's leaders, of significant events in its history, and of occupational therapists working with patients in various settings.
    Holdings: The collection of the Wilma L. West Library and Archives includes: Over 4300 monographs, dissertations and theses; over 2200 photographic images; Archives: 168 linear feet. Journals: a few of our historical journals include: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1947-present; Archives of Occupational Therapy, 1922-1924; Maryland Psychiatric Quarterly, 1911-1922; Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation, 1922-1952; and WFOT Bulletin, 1978-present. For a complete list of the journals that are held in the library and are indexed in OT SEARCH, please visit the library's website: <a href="http://www1.aota.org/otsearch/index.asp" >http://www1.aota.org/otsearch/index.asp</a>. Please note: only selected articles from these titles are indexed. For a Guide to the Archives of the AOTA, please go to: <a href="http://www1.aota.org/otsearch/docs/otslit.pdf" >http://www1.aota.org/otsearch/docs/otslit.pdf</a>.
    Contact Name, Title: Mindy A. Hecker, Director of Information Resources and the Wilma L. West Library
    Contact Telephone Number: 301-652-6611 ext 2558
    Contact Email Address: mhecker@aotf.org
    Web Site: http://www.aotf.org
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Preventive or Occupational Medicine [show all 7]
  2. Organization Type: Archive, Library, Museum
    Address: 6425 SW 6th Avenue
    City: Topeka
    State Or Province: Kansas
    Zip / Postal Code: 66615-1099
    Country: United States
    Telephone Number: 785-272-8681
    Fax Number: 785-272-8682
    Abstract: Established in 1875, the Kansas Historical Society is a state agency, which safeguards and shares the state’s history. The collections consists of books, State records, manuscripts, photographs, and audio-visual materials relating to physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, & veterinarians; military & general medicine; medical schools; pharmacies; patent medicines; John R. Brinkley, the famous “goat gland doctor”; nursing; medical organizations; agricultural veterinary medicine; Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad & other hospitals; and World War II veterans’ oral interviews mentioning health & medical care. Also included in the collections are a notable amount of material on psychiatry, including records of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, its founders, and associates. The society’s State archives holdings include licensing files; records of health- and veterinary- related State agencies; and records of State hospitals & other institutions. The society's Kansas Museum of History holds an extensive collection of equipment from Kansas medical personnel, including quack medical devices confiscated by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
    Holdings: Over 1700 manuscript collections, archival series, photographs, and other items relating to all aspects of medicine with related published materials and museum artifacts. Some records and collections have restricted access due to federal or State privacy statutes or donor conditions.
    Contact Name, Title: Lin Fredericksen, Reference staff head
    Contact Telephone Number: 785-272-8681, ext. 117
    Contact Email Address: lfredericksen@kshs.org
    Web Site: http://www.kshs.org
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Dentistry, History of Health Regulation, History of Hospitals [show all 16]
  3. Organization Type: Library
    Address: 120 St. George Street
    City: Toronto
    State Or Province: Ontario
    Zip / Postal Code: M6N 5C7
    Country: Canada
    Telephone Number: 416-978-5285
    Fax Number: (416) 978-1667
    Abstract: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library houses approximately 15,000 items in the history of medicine. These materials are for use in the library only. Limited photocopying is permitted. The library's particular strengths are in the history of anatomy, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, dentistry, and psychoanalysis.
    Holdings: The Library holds approximately 15,000 items. About 10 incunables, many 16th century volumes, but no precise figures are available. Some manuscript material, including a number of Florence Nightingale's letters. Small collection of medical caricature prints.
    Contact Name, Title: Philip Oldfield, Librarian
    Contact Telephone Number: (416) 946-3177
    Contact Email Address: philip.oldfield@utoronto.ca
    Web Site: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Gynecology and Obstetrics, History of Medicine [show all 8]
  4. Organization Type: Archive, Library, Museum
    Address: 448 Wylie Drive
    City: Normal
    State Or Province: Illinois
    Zip / Postal Code: 61761
    Country: United States
    Telephone Number: 309-451-7852
    Fax Number: (309) 451-7761
    Abstract: Collection focused on materials related to the history of addiction treatment and recovery in the United States. Access by appointment only. No interlibary loan.
    Holdings: 15,000+ books, monographs, articles, artifacts dating from early 1800s to present.
    Contact Name, Title: William White, Emeritus Senior Research Consultant
    Contact Telephone Number: 941- 575-9882
    Contact Email Address: bwhite@chestnut.org
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Medicine, History of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, History of Psychiatry [show all 5]
  5. Organization Type: Library
    Address: Sigmund Samuel Library Building University of Toronto 9 King's College Circle Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5
    City: Toronto
    State Or Province: Ontario
    Zip / Postal Code: M5S 1A5
    Country: Canada
    Telephone Number: 416-978-2280
    Fax Number: 416-971-2848
    Abstract: The Gerstein Science Information Centre is the largest science and health sciences academic library in Canada. It has a print collection of 1,036,694 volumes of journals and books. The library also provides access to over 100,000 online journals and books. We provide circulation, reference, inter-library loan, document delivery and information literacy instruction to University of Toronto affiliated individuals. The building facilities are open to visiting scholars. Use of the library's resources by the wider community is facilitated by open access, inter-library lending, and user-pay services. The library has a complete set of Index Medicus (in its various title changes) and many major reference titles such as the Catalogue of the Royal Society of London. We have a copy of A.C.P. Calllisen’s Medicinisches Scriftsteller-Lexikon (in a 1964 reprint) which is not widely held. The library currently maintains subscriptions to the databases Science in the 19th century periodicals and to History of Science, Technology and Medicine and to Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We also house some notable medical historical microform sets (such as the American Medical Periodicals 1797-1900; Canadian Medical Journals 1826-1900; and the Landmarks of Science) which are held in the affiliated Robarts Library Building where all microform is located.
    Holdings: The Gerstein Science Information Centre has a print collection of 1,036,694 volumes consisting of 505,815 monographs and 530,879 serial volumes in paper. The library also provides access to over 100,000 online journals and books. Our holdings include an extensive collection of materials donated to this library through an international campaign in the years immediately after a fire in 1890 destroyed the entire collection which had been built up in the previous 50-70 years. Many rare items from our collection have been moved to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library; however much material remains here. We still have a substantial collection of monographs in our unique ‘old class’ scheme which is based on the classification scheme used at one time at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris; the ‘old class’ scheme was abandoned in 1950 but much material was not reclassified and remains in the old class. We also have an extensive collection of “pamphlets” which do not have subject analysis of any kind but only keyword access for title or author or sometimes imprint in our catalogue; there is no subject analysis for these pamphlets but they are organized in broad categories such as pathology or surgery; the pamphlets range from dissertations to full monographs to 10 page pamphlets; we have about 85 standard library pamphlet boxes of these. Our serials are generally complete from the first volume; we have some serial titles going back to the 18th century. The materials relating to the history of medicine are not separately housed but are integrated in our main collection. Some materials must be requested from our offsite storage facility; this status is indicated in the catalogue by the location “Downsview” and retrieval from there takes approximately 2-3 days. We do not have a dedicated history of medicine librarian.
    Contact Name, Title: Sandra Langlands, Director, Gerstein Science Information Centre & Director (acting), Science Libraries
    Contact Telephone Number: 416-978-6370
    Contact Email Address: s.langlands.melvin@utoronto.ca
    Web Site: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/gerstein/
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Botany, History of Cookery and Nutrition [show all 19]
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