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2018
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Max Fink, M.D. Digital Collection
The Max Fink Papers at Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries document the extraordinary career of psychiatrist and neurologist Max Fink, MD. Dr. Fink is a world leading expert and defender of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). His studies of ECT began in 1952 at Hillside Hospital in New York and he has published prolifically for six decades on the use and effects of ECT. In 1979, he authored Convulsive Therapy: Theory and Practice, the book medical historian Edward Shorter and internationally recognized psychiatrist David Healy called the “definitive medical text on electroconvulsive shock.” The collection is comprised of nearly 250 linear feet (475 boxes) of original research materials dating from the 1880s through 2017 and includes Dr. Fink’s notes, manuscripts, publications, correspondence, grant reports, and visual materials on the research and study of convulsive therapy (electroshock), catatonia, melancholia, pharmaco-electroencephalography, and psychopharmacology. The first release of the Max Fink Digital Collection, a subset of the papers, includes nearly 7,000 items (20,000 pages) of original notes on experimental psychiatry, outgoing letters to colleagues, professional writings, and an autobiographical memoir completed in 2017. More items from the archival collection will be digitized in the future.Date: 2018 -
Dental Instruments: Past and Present
The online Dental Instruments: Past and Present digital collection is made possible by a National Network of Libraries of Medicine grant awarded in Summer 2017 to Stony Brook University Librarians: Kathleen Kasten, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences; Jamie Saragossi, Head of the Health Sciences Library; and Shafeek Fazal, Associate Dean for Library Technology, Discovery, and Digital Initiatives. The works contained within this collection are the final products of a joint collaboration between the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, Library Information Technology, and the Preservation Department. The project was conducted during the Spring 2015 academic semester, and its goal was to create a digital exhibit based on the Dental Instruments: Past and Present exhibit on display in the Health Sciences Library by digitizing images, text, and objects. The physical exhibit went on display at the Health Sciences Library in 2014 and is composed of items from several collections, including: The Mills Collection, the collection of Dr. Allan Kucine, the Baer Collection (held at the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine), as well as items provided by the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine and a copy of The long climb: From barber-surgeons to doctors of dental surgery, donated by the author, Philias Garant, DDS, Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine. This digital collection represents the items on view in the physical collection, complemented by a bibliography, educational references, and explanatory texts.Date: 2018 -
Otto Ege: Fifty Original Leaves From Medieval Manuscripts
“Otto F. Ege: Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts” is a digital collection published by Stony Brook University Libraries in December 2017. An educator and book seller, Otto F. Ege (1888-1951) is perhaps best known for separating and systematically removing pages or leaves from books. A self-proclaimed biblioclast or “book-breaker,” Ege rationalized that disbinding volumes provided the masses with opportunities to study and to have tangible experiences with authentic medieval manuscripts. As a result, modestly funded libraries and smaller institutions were able to acquire manuscript specimens at a reasonable cost. The digital collection features photographs of the Ege-compiled portfolio “Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI Century.” Special Collections owns portfolio “No. 19” of the 40 unique sets created by Ege. The rectos and versos of each leaf, context cards, and housing have been photographed and fully described in accordance with Dublin Core and VRA metadata standards. The University Libraries created the collection to increase accessibility to the manuscripts and to aid efforts by students and scholars to “virtually” reconstruct the books from which the scattered leaves were taken.Date: 2018