Intern in our Digital Lab this Summer
The New York Academy of Medicine’s Library is looking for a digital intern to work in the Library’s digital program. The internship will provide hands-on experience with creating and building digital...
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Facendo Il Libro: The Making of the Book (and a digital collection and exhibit)
By Anne Garner, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Robin Naughton, Head of Digital The Academy Library is thrilled to announce “Facendo Il Libro: The Making of Fasciculus Medicinae, an Early...
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“Alas, Poor Daft Jamie’s Pickled!”: Poetry Concerning the Resurrectionists
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian You may have heard about “Resurrection Men” – people who robbed graves and even killed people to fill the unprecedented demand for cadavers...
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Get Your Primary Sources! Public Health in Modern America & Archives of...
By Robin Naughton, PhD The New York Academy of Medicine Library has closed stacks, and as such, the serendipitous nature of browsing the shelves and discovering a gem stuck between two unlikely...
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The Michael M. Davis Papers and Economics in Medicine
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services & Outreach Librarian Recently, the Academy hosted a talk between Paul Krugman and Tsung-Mei Cheng, entitled “Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of...
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Digitization Pilot: The Robert Matz Hospital Postcard Collection
By Robin Naughton, Senior Digital Program Manager The front of a postcard of Roosevelt Hospital. NYAM Collection. The back of the postcard, with a message from a patient of the hospital. NYAM...
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Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript Cookbooks
By the NYAM Library Team A recipe in verse for “Mother Eve’s Pudding,” from “Recipe book : manuscript, 1700s.” The NYAM Library is happy to announce the launch of “Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript...
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Digitizing Our Manuscript Cookbooks
By Andrea Byrne, Digital Technical Specialist In December 2020, we launched a new digital collection: Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript Cookbooks. This is how we did it. Our new digital collection...
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English-Language Manuscript Cookbooks
By Stephen Schmidt, Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Over the course of a decade, culinary historian Stephen Schmidt has advised the NYAM Library on our extensive manuscript cookbook collection. This blog...
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Updating the Robert Matz Hospital Postcards Collection
By Miranda Schwartz, Cataloger In May 2021, the Library rolled out an update to the Robert Matz Hospital Postcards Collection, one of the digital collections on our Digital Collections & Exhibits...
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