UCSF Library

The UCSF Library, officially the Kalmanovitz Library, is the library of the University of California, San Francisco and it located at the Parnassus campus. It is one of the world's foremost libraries in the health sciences.

Archives and Special Collections

The UCSF Archives and Special Collections is part of the UCSF Library located on the Parnassus campus in San Francisco, California. The UCSF archives serve as the official repository for the preservation of selected records, printed and born-digital materials, and realia generated by or about UCSF, including the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry, the Graduate Division, and the UCSF Medical Center.^[1] The archives also include rare and unique materials that support research and teaching in the history of the health sciences.^[2]

The institutional archives were officially established in 1963 by UC President Clark Kerr. He mandated the creation of both a records management system and an archives program at UCSF. The medical history rare book collection began in the 1930s, before the establishment of the institutional archives.^[3]

Facilities

The main branch (Kalmanovitz Library) is located at the Parnassus campus, with a secondary location at the Misson Bay campus in the Rutter Center. Additionally, the library is affiliated with the ZSFG Library at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Fishbon Memorial Library at UCSF Medical Center, the UCSF Fresno Medical Library at UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, the UCSF Patient Health Library at Mount Zion Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Library at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Art

The main branch hosts artwork by Hiroshige, Georges Mathieu, Helaman Ferguson, Fred Reichman, R.C. Gorman, Bill Woodrow, Robert Cremean, Sarah Sze.

Holdings

Significant rare book collections and archival holdings include:

• Pre-20th century works related to the health sciences published in the San Francisco Bay Area or by California authors, includes several early medical and dental journals and San Francisco Department of Public Health reports
• Homeopathy archival papers and works from the library of the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific
• Speck collection on cholera, includes pamphlets and reports on cholera epidemics in the US and Europe^[4]
• Ralph H. Kellogg collection for high-altitude physiology
• Incunabula regarding the health sciences and early printed work (16th to 19th century)
• The East Asian Collection, includes works related to the history of Western medicine in Japan and pharmacy and medical schools in Japan from the middle of the 16th century to 1900
• Japanese Woodblock Print Collection^[5]
• HIV/AIDS epidemic material from the UCSF AIDS History Project
• Tobacco Control Archives^[6]
• Biotechnology Archives, including the collections of J. Michael Bishop, Choh Hao Li, the Radiologic Imaging Laboratory, and Harold Varmus^[7]
• Digitized collection of UCSF university publications, yearbooks, pamphlets, and books dating from the 16th century through the 2000s accessible through HathiTrust^[8]

Industry Documents Library

The Industry Documents Library (IDL) is a repository of documents created by the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Hosted by the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, this resource aims to aid the investigation of cross-industry corporate practices that are detrimental to public health. The collection includes the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents and the Drug Industry Document Archive.^[9]

External links

• UCSF Archives and Special Collections
• Brought to Light blog
• UCSF digital collections
• Official site
• UCSF Tobacco Control Archives
• Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

References

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