W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library:-
The Kellogg Library’s Role in Continuing Medical Education
Kellogg Library:-
The Kellogg Library has had an active role in outreach to practitioners since before it was the Kellogg.
The library and Continuing Medical Education have worked closely throughout their shared history.
The Medical Library
Ancient History– The Medical Library:
1864: Dr. Charles Cogswell donated his personal medical library to the Medical Society of Nova Scotia. He envisioned that this collection would be:
part of a medical college,
and that the collection would also be a resource for medical practitioners in the Province of Nova Scotia.
The Medical-Dental Library
Ancient History: The Medical Library
1864: The Medical Library moved around. First it was housed at the City Hospital;
1875: Library moved to the Medical School on the Carleton Campus
Early 1890’s: Library moved Halifax Visiting Dispensatory.
1908: Faculty of Dentistry opens: Cogswell Library becomes the Medical-Dental Library
Throughout this period the library served both the Faculty and the community of physicians.
Kellogg Library
1915: The library moves into the Forrest Bldg.
1915-1916: A dispute developed between the Medical Society and Dalhousie University over the Cogswell bequests and who owned the what was then called the Cogswell library.
The dispute developed into a “friendly lawsuit”.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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