Monthly Archives: April 2016

Opening hours w/b 2 May 2016

Next week our opening hours will be:

Monday: CLOSED for the Bank Holiday.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4.30pm

Although the Wellcome Unit Library is closed on Monday, readers are reminded that the History Faculty Library in the Radcliffe Camera will be open as usual for Bodleian card holders. As always, please get in touch with us if you would like to visit the Unit library. We hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.

L0035095 Group of nurses before a tent, Portland Hospital Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Group of nurses seated before a tent at the Portland Hospital during the Boer War. Photograph c.1900 Bowlby, Sir Anthony Alfred (1855-1929) Collection Photograph albums, including of the Portland Hospital at Bloemfontein Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

L0035095 Group of nurses before a tent, Portland Hospital, during the Boer War
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images (images@wellcome.ac.uk, http://wellcomeimages.org)
c.1900 Bowlby, Sir Anthony Alfred (1855-1929) Collection
Photograph albums, including of the Portland Hospital at Bloemfontein
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Opening hours w/b 25th April 2016

Next week our opening hours will be:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4.30pm

As ever, please get in touch if you would like to visit the library. We hope you have a splendid weekend.

A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill,
0022440 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
A surgical operation. Oil painting by Reginald Brill, 1934-1935.
Oil 1934 to 1935 By: Reginald Brill; published: 1934-1935; size: ca. 205 x 160 cm.
Collection: Iconographic Collections, library reference no.: ICV No 51428 and Iconographic Collection 11628i
Full Bibliographic Record Link to Wellcome Library Catalogue 

Trinity Term 2016 Seminar Series

The following History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Research Seminars will be given at 2.15pm on Mondays in the Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, unless otherwise noted.

Convener: Dr Atsuko Naono.

Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

‘Medicine in the non-European World’

Dr Nandini Bhattacharya, Dundee
25 Apr: ‘A pharmacopeia for India: Nationalist narratives in colonial India?’

Dr Jonathan Saha, Leeds
9 May: ‘Elephants and anthrax: Burma’s forests, imperial networks and the history of a vaccine’

Dr Simukai Chigudu
16 May: ‘Anatomy of African pathos: How a cholera outbreak became a national disaster in Zimbabwe’

Dr Hanna-Louise Clark
23 May: ‘Administering vaccination in interwar Algeria’

Dr Shilpi Rajpal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Wed, 1 Jun: ‘From lunatic asylums to mental hospitals: Professionalization and medicalization of colonial psychiatry, 1895-1947’

Professor Kate Crosby, KCL
6 Jun: ‘Obstetrics as a model for Buddhist meditation in pre-modern Southeast Asia’

Dr Margaret Jones, York
13 Jun: ‘Policy innovation and policy pathways: Tuberculosis control in Sri Lanka, 1948-1990’

Please note: there will be no seminars on the two May bank holidays (2 May and 30 May)

SOLO maintenance: 8-11 April

This is an advance warning that SOLO will be undergoing essential maintenance from 5pm Friday 8th April to 9am Monday 11th April.  It will still be available but will have limited functionality:

  • Find & Request tab (location information) will not display.
  • Viewing and renewing loans will not be possible.
  • Placing requests will not be possible.
  • Self-issue machines in libraries will not work though staff can still issue books and accept returned books over the counter.

Access to e-resources will be unaffected; readers will still be able to view ebooks and online journal articles.

To find shelfmarks during this period of limited functionality use COPAC. Note that COPAC will not be able indicate whether the book is out on loan.

These limitations are the result of major maintenance work on associated systems. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Our advice is to plan ahead and to place requests in advance.