IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KHL & KH/F
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: King's College Hospital Medical School Library
Date(s): Created [1850]-1972
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 4 files, 2 volumes, 6 pamphlets
Name of creator(s): King's College Hospital Medical School Library
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Medical School Library was founded in 1839, when the first King's College Hospital was opened in Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Apart from an early Report Book covering the years 1839-1852, few records refer to it until 1946. During World War Two, the upkeep of the Library had been unavoidably neglected. A Library Sub-committee was elected in 1945 and the next year a new appointment was made, that of a full-time Librarian.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records concerning King's College Hospital Medical School Library, [1850]-1972; remedies and recipes, [1850-1900] & 1980, (KH/F3), manuscript pages with covering letter from sender, Lilian S (sic) to Gillian Pentelow, Librarian of King's College Hospital Medical School; medical formulary and treatments book, [1920-1940], (KH/F4); correspondence, 1858-1967, (KHL/F1), mainly to and from the staff of the Library and Dr Herbert Willoughby Lyle, Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Lecturer on Ophthalmology of King's College Hospital Medical School, concerning publications; correspondence between senior staff of King's College Hospital and the Medical School, and the Medical School Librarian, 1947-1971, (KHL/F3), concerning records, particularly case notes, kept in the Medical School Library, including a list of the case notes placed in the Library by Dr Frederick F Cartwright in 1958, and an index, by condition and patient name to the 'medical case records for 1905'; sport cups volume, 1951-1962, (KHL/F4), recording loans and returns of Clubs and Societies Union cups which were kept and displayed by the Library; article, 1966, (KHL/PBN1), 'The Medical School Library' by Dorothy S Ramsay, reprinted from King's College Hospital Gazette; 'General notes for the use of students' pamphlets, 1953, (KHL/HAN1), (4 copies); 'Guide to the use of the Library' pamphlet, 1972, (KHL/HAN2).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as above.
Conditions governing access:
Administrative and committee papers are closed for 30 years from the last date on file.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
King's College Hospital Medical School Library.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2000