In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19. Application open for 2019-20 fellowships. News about public and academic events as well as Consortium collections. Read more.

June 6-7, 2019
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA

The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.

 

Kathrinne Duffy, Brown University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of science scholar and collector. The collection encompasses 148 autograph letters by renowned scientists from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The selected list of authors of the letters speaks for itself. The collection represents an extremely high historical, research and educational value: 
 
Ampere, Andre
Babbage, Charles
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bohr, Niels

The Historical Medical Library is pleased to announce that the Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) and the records of its successor, Philly Health Info (PHI), have been fully processed and are ready for researcher use.

Aprajita Sarcar, Queen’s University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Timothy Minella, Villanova University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

Lauren Rosati, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow

This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.

Ed Dwight, Washington Evening Star
Astronaut Ed Dwight fitting a space helmet on 13-year-old Stephen Seabron, November 6, 1963. Washington Evening Star, Chronicling America, Library of Congress.