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Your Librarian

I plan to visit your class on May 5th.

Lee Ann Bryant
Woodward Library
lee.ann.bryant@ubc.ca
604-822-3609 or 604-822-4440

I'm looking forward to meeting you.

Journals - Print

Many journals of historical interest are in storage at the Woodward Library.

Use the Catalogue to identify the journal, then make a storage request. You can do this in person or by telephone.

To search the Catalogue, try the word PERIODICALS in addition to a broad subject term.
I like the Guided Keyword Search for this.

Limit by date. The 'before' limit works well. This will help identify journals that are old enough to be of interest. Be sure to check the library holdings as we may not own the journal from the first volume.

Some examples of what we have in storage -

The Canadian Nurse
1905 -

Public Health Nursing
1909 -

Nursing World
1925 -

International Nursing Review
1927-1939

Public Health Nurses' Bulletin (British Columbia)
1924-1939

Hospital Progress, a monthly periodical of hospital science and nursing education
1937-1984

Canadian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing
1967-1978

Journals - Online

Some older issues of journals have been digitized and are available to us online.


Many volumes of Canadian Nurse are available in the Internet Archive. The earliest volume is 1905.
http://www.archive.org


The Royal College of Nursing digitized their journal, Nursing Record & British Journal of Nursing, back to 1888.
http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/
Some volumes of British Journal of Nursing are also on the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org


Our JSTOR collection has sections on Health Sciences and Health Policy.
Journals include:
American Journal of Nursing, 1900-
Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 1934-
Public Health Reports 1903-
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=49





WHO has digitized the Weekly Epidemiological Record, 1926-
http://www.who.int/wer/archives/en/


Canadian Journal of Nursing Research is digitized back to 1969.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/cjnr/

Please add a comment if you find other titles.

Journals - Microfilm

Microfilm copies of journals are held in Koerner Library. Please ask at the Microforms Desk on level 2.

Oral History Interviews

The Helen Randal Library at CRNBC has many oral history interviews on cassette.
These are listed in the Catalogue. Start with a search on 'oral history'.
You may add another concept but be sure to use an ampersand (&).
Example: oral history & polio
http://www.crnbc.ca/library/

Other possible sources:

UBC Archives Audio Visual Collection
http://angel.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_coll0610-1.php?CISOROOT=/coll0610-1

Oral History Online
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1060

Archival Materials - Print

Archives are organized collections of records pertaining to an organization or institution.


The B.C. History of Nursing Group has archival materials housed in the School of Nursing. This volunteer group was organized in 1989 under the umbrella of the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC) to discover, disseminate, and preserve nursing history in British Columbia. Please see the site for contact information and a list of holdings. Some of the items held are published works, some are archives.

UBC Archives in the Ike Barber Learning Centre has archival materials from many parts of the University including the School of Nursing. Materials are listed in the Archival Inventories.
You'll find archival materials on individual nurses who were part of the university at some point. For example, nurse/scholars Ethel Johns, Lyle Creelman, Margaret Streetwere are listed . See http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch.html



The Memorial Room in the Woodward Biomedical Library has some archival materials.
Please see the index of manuscripts.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/woodward/memoroom/collection/

Note especially this set of letters:
www.library.ubc.ca/woodward/memoroom/collection/inventory_docs/Gonzaga_Mary.pdf


The British Columbia Archival Union List (BCAUL) provides access to
descriptions of records held at 174 publicly-accessible archives in British Columbia.
Using the list you can find out about archives that may interest you (such as the
Providence Health Care Archives located in downtown Vancouver).
Here's the link to the BCAUL database
http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/bcaul.html

Letters & Diaries - Online

Some institutions and publishers are digitizing primary sources, particularly letters and diaries.

You may find some of these interesting:

Helen Fowlds, Canadian Nurse in WWI
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm

Florence Nightingale Letters (UBC's collection!)
http://angel.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_coll1.php?CISOROOT=/coll1

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1053

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1051

SAGA Document Collection (UBC's collection! See for example 'Ethel Johns')
http://angel.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_saga.php?CISOROOT=/saga

Early Books and Pamphlets

These collections are of note -

Early Canadiana Online
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=767
pre-1900

Wellcome Trust has begun to digitize material.
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/etexts.html
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node350.html
There is an interesting images section.
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/


Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=471
pre-1920
Microfiche at Koerner Library

The Memorial Room, Woodward Biomedical Library, has an interesting collection of books from the 1600's on Midwifery and other textbooks and materials on cholera, yellow fever, etc.
Memorial Room books are listed in the UBC Library Catalogue. (We've also started a blog on a collection of artifacts held in the Memorial Room. See http://wdmem.blogspot.com for photographs of infant feeding devices.)

Secondary Sources

Looking for secondary sources?

Catalogue for book material - use the term 'history' along with your concept.

Use Indexes & Databases to find journal articles. Try:

PubMed - note the limit 'History of Medicine'
Cinahl - add the term 'history'
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (a specialized index)
America: History & Life

Subject Guides

UBC librarians have prepared a number of subject guides that may provide additional ideas for sources. See especially:

History

History of Medicine

Canadian Studies

http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/subject-resources.html