Organization Type: Archive Address: 34 Isabella Street City: Toronto State Or Province: Ontario Zip / Postal Code: M4Y 1N1 Country: Canada Telephone Number: 416-777-2755 Abstract: The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives was established to aid in the recovery and preservation of our histories. Its mandate is to acquire, preserve, organize, and give public access to information and materials in any medium, by and about LGBT people, primarily produced in or concerning Canada. To support this function, the Archives also maintains significant non-archival collections, which include a research library, international subject files, and an international collection of queer periodicals. It is our mandate to make this information available to the public for education and research. Over the years, we have helped hundreds of people - students, artists, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers - working on various projects. Holdings: Given that the CLGA's founders were also members of the collective that published The Body Politic, it should come as no surprise that our earliest holdings consisted of records from that influential gay and lesbian liberation newspaper. As the '70s progressed and word of the Archives' existence spread across the country, donations started pouring in from organizations and private individuals. These days, the CLGA preserves a wide range of material including personal papers, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, periodicals, and clipping files. However, unlike many more traditional archives, we also collect artifacts like buttons, board games, t-shirts, and banners. As if this weren't enough to keep researchers busy, we also have a reference library and a rare book collection. Our National Portrait Collection, established in 1998, honours those that have made a significant contribution to LGBT life in Canada. Contact Name, Title: Raegan Swanson, Executive Director Contact Telephone Number: 1-416-777-2755 Contact Email Address: executivedirector@clga.ca Web Site: http://www.clga.ca Collection Subject Strengths: History of Public Health, HIV/AIDS Organization Type: Library Address: 2K3.28 Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre University of Alberta City: Edmonton State Or Province: Alberta Zip / Postal Code: T6G 2R7 Country: Canada Telephone Number: 780-492-7947 Abstract: The Rawlinson Rare Book Collection for the health sciences is located in the Phyllis Russell Rare Book Room at the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta. The collection is named after Dr. Herbert E. Rawlinson, an early graduate of the Faculty of Medicine and a professor of Anatomy at the University of Alberta from 1927 until he resigned in 1962 because of illness. He passed away in Victoria in 1975. His personal collection of books formed the basis of this present day special collection. The collection has grown thanks to subsequent donations and by selection. The Rawlinson Collection consists of approximately 1500 volumes. The books may be consulted in the rare books room; however, they do not circulate due to their age, fragility, or rarity. Students, staff, faculty and members of the general public are welcome to access the collection by presenting their OneCards or other acceptable identification at the service desk of the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. If you live outside of Edmonton and would like to access content from the Rawlinson Rare Boook Collection please make an interlibrary loan request with your home library. They will liaise with our interlibrary loan department and our collections manager to assess the feasibility of making duplicates of the item. Holdings: The Rawlinson Collection contains over 2000 items from ranging in age from the 1500 until the 2011. Some of our more impressive items include: A handsome, full-size 1934 edition of Vesalius’ illustrations (Icones anatomicae) from De humani corporis fabrica, reprinted from original plates (these plates were subsequently destroyed during World War II). · A printer’s proof edition of Marcello Malpighi’s Opera Posthuma (1660). · A beautifully preserved and bound, autographed and dedicated, first edition of John Howard’s An account of the principal lazarettos of Europe (1789). · Dechambre’s Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales, 1864-1869. · Mr. Hunter’s Anatomy Lectures, 1755. Holograph notes taken by a student of William Hunter. Donated by the Mewburn family. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/aboutus/health/rawlinson/ · Galen’s Librorum pram classis: naturum corporus humani – a 1590 copy with a handsome modern replica binding. · Guy de Chauliac’s La grande chirugie (1598) – the Sabistan of its day. · Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection of Her Majesty, the Queen, at Windsor Castle – the complete anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. · William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine (1769) – a first edition of one of the earliest home medical manuals. Contact Name, Title: Trish Chatterley, Collections Manager, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library Contact Telephone Number: 780-492-7933 Contact Email Address: trish.chatterley@ualberta.ca Web Site: http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/history-of-medicine/rawlinson Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, History of Medical Education [show all 8] Organization Type: Museum Address: Ann Baillie Building National Historic Site, 32 George Street City: Kingston State Or Province: Ontario Zip / Postal Code: K7L2V7 Country: Canada Telephone Number: 613-548-2419 Abstract: The Museum of Health Care at Kingston is a safe haven for more than 30,000 artefacts, including medical, surgical, and laboratory instruments, commemorative objects, and patient care items. Individuals and institutions donated the artefacts in the various collections, which date from the late 18th century to the present. The collection can be searched on the Museum's website at <a href="http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca" > http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca</a> or Artefacts Canada. The Museum can provide images for both web publication, and high-resolution images for print publication. Holdings: More than 30,000 artefacts. Contact Name, Title: Paul Robertson (Curator) Or Dr. James Low (Executive Director), Curator, Executive Director Contact Telephone Number: 6135482419 Contact Email Address: museum@kgh.kari.net Web Site: http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia, History of Cardiology [show all 21] 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] Organization Type: Archive, Library Address: 1200 Main St. West City: Hamilton State Or Province: Ontario Zip / Postal Code: L8N 3Z5 Country: Canada Telephone Number: 905-525-9140 Fax Number: 905-528-3733 Abstract: Although the collection includes materials relating to the history of health and medicine throughout world, the emphasis is on the Canadian experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works published about the North American, British and French experience form the bulk of the collection. All items are included in the library catalogue searchable from <a href="http://catalogue.mcmaster.ca/catalogue/" > http://catalogue.mcmaster.ca/catalogue/ </a>. Reference service is available and interlibrary loans of the secondary resource materials only. Digital copies of some primary resources is available. Holdings: The primary resources consist of approximately 2000 items. They include classical texts, family medicine manuals, homeopathic works, annual reports of 19th century psychiatric hospitals, annual reports and publications of government departments,19th century Canadian medical periodicals, posters, public health and patent medicine ephemera. It is a small but interesting collection. Contact Name, Title: Anne Mckeage, History of Health and Medicine Librarian Contact Telephone Number: 905-525-9140 x 22828 Contact Email Address: mckeage@mcmaster.ca Web Site: https://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/index/mcmaster-library-collections/library-collections Collection Subject Strengths: History of Homeopathy, History of Medicine, History of Public Health [show all 4]
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