In the Library

The Wellcome Library held a reception on 18 September to mark the retirement of Professor Vivian Nutton, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Professor Nutton is acknowledged as one of the foremost experts in the ancient… Continue reading

This summer marked the 35th anniversary of William Schupbach, Curator, Paintings, Prints and Drawings, starting work with what was then the Wellcome Institute. Since then, William and colleagues have undertaken a mammoth cataloguing task, to allow access to the illustrative… Continue reading

The Library blog generally focuses on items in the Wellcome Library’s holdings, mentioning their catalogue descriptions in passing: it rarely features the unglamorous process of how those catalogue descriptions are created. Two new additions to the catalogue of archives and… Continue reading

Each year the Library closes for a week to allow staff to work on projects that could be disruptive to our readers during normal open hours. This year our stocktaking activities included a full tidying of all open access collections… Continue reading

Encore, the Library’s new user-friendly catalogue interface, has recently undergone a few changes. Just a few weeks ago we upgraded to a new version which offers a better way of saving and emailing records, improved search functionality, and the ability… Continue reading

The Library’s Year in Review is out now and is available as a PDF document for viewing and downloading. It covers our activities during 2008, specifically highlighting our digitisation programme. We also showcase some of our exciting acquisitions from the… Continue reading

Regular visitors to the Wellcome Library website may have noticed the launch of Encore, our new online catalogue interface, during the dark days of February. Summer arrived and brought with it an upgraded version of Encore, which has now been… Continue reading

The library will close for its annual stock take and related activities at 16:00 on Saturday 27 June and re-open at 10:00 on Monday 6 July. Even while we are closed, registered members of the Library can access a growing… Continue reading

This week, after close to 40 years of working for the Wellcome, Chris Carter retires from his job as Senior Photographer in the Wellcome Library. The image shown above is one of the rare examples we have of Chris actually… Continue reading

To celebrate the launch of the BMJ archive – digitised under the auspices of the Wellcome Library’s Medical Journals Backfiles project – an editorial in today’s BMJ offers readers a prize of £1000 for the most interesting use of the… Continue reading