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Wellcome Library catalogue reaches 50,000

• Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:24:09 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Wellcome Library catalogue reaches 50,000
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Forwarded to STHC-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH.  --Russell Johnson


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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:50:13 +0100 
From: "Schupbach ,Mr William"   [w.schupbach@wellcome.ac.uk]
Subject: Wellcome Library catalogue reaches 50,000
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On August 16, 2001, a 1930 photograph of the New York health and beauty guru
Marguerite Agniel demonstrating exercises to strengthen the abdominal
muscles became the 50,000th picture to be recorded in the Wellcome Library
catalogue.  The international collection of pictures was assembled by
American-born Henry S. Wellcome from about 1880 to his death in 1936, and is
regularly updated with new acquisitions.  After several years of planning
and preparation, computer cataloguing of the pictures started in April 1992,
and scarcely a working day has gone by since then without a record being
added to the catalogue.  The Wellcome Library catalogue is available on the
web at http://library.wellcome.ac.uk, and it now receives between 1,200 and
2,500 hits a day from researchers worldwide.  Progress with the catalogue
continues, and one of the next steps will be the addition of more
reproductions of the pictures.

William Schupbach
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
England
E-mail: w.schupbach@wellcome.ac.uk
Library catalogue: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk
(To view catalogue, use  browser setting View>Encoding>Unicode UTF8)

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