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NLMA-MUNMED
archival collaboration
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Dawn Mason Photo |
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Prompted by the
development of history of medicine courses at Memorial, the NLMA has
undertake proper archival arrangements and descriptions of its own
records to make them available to medical students, the medical
community and other interested researchers.
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By Jonathan Carpenter |
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The NLMA has partnered with the MUN
Faculty of Medicine to promote the medical heritage of Newfoundland
and Labrador.
Prompted by the development of history of
medicine courses at Memorial, the NLMA has undertake proper archival
arrangements and descriptions of its own records to make them available
to medical students, the medical community and other interested
researchers.
“We had in its possession historical
records dating back to the 1920s, when the Newfoundland Medical
Association was formed. These records trace the history of the
Association along with the practice of medicine throughout the province.
As well, over the years we have collected an array of antique medical
instruments, primarily through our members, including the late Dr. Ian
Rusted and his brother Dr. Nigel Rusted,” said Executive Director Rob
Ritter.
“Right now, these records and instruments
are not being used to their full educational capacity. Through
collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, we hope to change this by
turning our papers into a working archive and bringing the instruments
to the attention of medical students and others,” he added.
By partnering with the university, the
NLMA will have access to a finding aid for its records developed through
Electronic Archival Description (EAD), which is now being used as part
Memorial’s Digital Archive Initiative.
The Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive
(FMFA) is also utilizing the EAD program for the creation of a finding
aid for the Dr. Henry Gault collection. As of this spring, Archival
Assistant Shaina Goudie has been working on the arrangement and
description of our collection as well as the creation of the finding aid
using EAD. The end result of this project will be a searchable online
archival collection of valuable medical history that will be accessible
to students, faculty and other researchers.
The NLMA is also partnering with the FMFA
on a digitization project of the NLMA’s newsletters.
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