King's College Hospital Medical School Library

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA KHL & KH/F
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: King's College Hospital Medical School Library
Date(s)	: Created [1850]-1972
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of King's College Hospital View parent record
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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

King's College Hospital Medical School Library.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2000