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Name History Collections
William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library
East Carolina University
 
Address Health Sciences Building
Room 4516 A
600 Moye Boulevard
Greenville, North Carolina 27834-4354
 
Contact Ruth M.W. Moskop, Head of History Programs
moskopr@ecu.edu
(252) 744-2240
Melissa Nasea, Librarian
naseam@ecu.edu
(252) 744-2235
Charlotte Critcher, Library Assistant
critcherc@ecu.edu
(252) 744-3181
Dorothy A. Spencer, Library Director
spencerdo@ecu.edu
(252) 744-2212
 
Telephone (252) 744-2240
Fax: (252) 744-3512
 
Online http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/laupuslibrary/histcoll.cfm
http://www.countrydoctormuseum.org
 
Abstract

As a developing library collection with a museum component, the History Collections of the Laupus Library collects, catalogs, preserves, and displays materials relevant to the history of health care. Collections include historical materials from medicine, nursing, the allied health sciences, dentistry, pharmacology, and public health. Materials of worldwide interest dating from the 16th century well into the 20th century are part of this growing collection. The special mission and focus of the History Collections is on primary care practices in eastern North Carolina. In keeping with this focus, the Library supports an Oral History Program through which interviews with long-time health care providers are recorded and archived. There is a strong collection development interest in materials relating to domestic medicine and 19th century alternative medicine. Historical materials relating to minority health care and minority health care professionals are of special interest to the program. There are both circulating and non-circulating components of the History Collections, and although materials housed in the History Collections Room are non-circulating, clients may request photocopies or scans of some of these materials.

Since 2003, The Country Doctor Museum in Bailey, North Carolina has been a project of the Laupus Library. This museum is devoted to interpreting the history of rural health care in the American South.

 
Holdings

With materials from the 16th through the 21st centuries, the collections include approximately 4,000 circulating titles, almost 6,000 non-circulating titles, 200 artifacts, and a growing collection of oral histories, and manuscripts. The Laupus Library’s History Collections are home to The Karel B. Absolon History of Medicine Library and the E. Daniel Shingleton North Carolina Public Health History Collection. Significant microfilm holdings include the Adelaide Nutting Historical Nursing Collection, Early American Medical Imprints, and American Medical Periodicals.

 
ID
HMD/097
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Last reviewed: 07 May 2008
Last updated: 07 May 2008
First published: 18 September 2007
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