Everything about Osler Library Of The History Of Medicine totally explained
The
Osler Library is
Canada's foremost scholarly resource in the
history of medicine, and one of the most important
libraries of its type in
North America. The nucleus of the Library is the collection of 8,000 rare and historic works on the history of medicine and allied subjects presented to the Faculty of Medicine of
McGill University by
Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919). Sir William's original collection is described in the printed catalogue,
Bibliotheca Osleriana, and information on the whole of the printed collection and much of the manuscript collections are listed in the McGill University online catalogue,
(External Link
). Since the opening of the Library in
1929, the collection has continued to grow by purchase, gift, and transfer (particularly, in the latter case, of older books from the
McGill University Life Sciences Library. In addition to the Osler Library's holdings of rare books, there's a strong circulating collection of current secondary works and modern editions of historic texts, as well as a reference collection, archives and manuscripts, portraits and artifacts. In particular, the Osler Library has a large collection of
incunabula (152 volumes), an outstanding collection of editions of the works of
Sir Thomas Browne (author of
Religio Medici, the seventeenth century classic), and a set of some 30,000 French medical theses of the nineteenth century.
In 1921
Percy Erskine Nobbs started the design the Osler library, within the old Strathcona Medical Building and the library officially opened in May 1929. In
1965 both the contents of the library and the interior oak paneling and shelving were moved to their present location within the newly built
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building. The Osler Library was expanded and renovated in 2001-02.
After their deaths, the ashes of both Sir William and Lady Osler were placed in a niche within the library so that he remains surrounded by his favourite books.
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