The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics A unique collection within the JGH Health Sciences Library

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical EthicsA unique
collection within the JGH Health Sciences Library

• Shiri Alon, MLISJewish General Hospital
• Presented to the AJL Annual Convention
• June 20, 2011

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The JGH Health Sciences Library

• Over 4000 books
• Two sub-collections
• Patient and Family Resource Center (PFRC)
• The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
  for Judaica and Medical Ethics

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The JGH Health Sciences Library

• Health Sciences Library space

Drazin Fiction
Patient and Family Resource Center
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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics
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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics

• Initiated by Rabbi Myer Schecter (1929-2005)
• Establishment of a Judaica and Medical Ethics
  Library
• would help further promote the JGH as a unique
  acute care hospital
• strengthen its Jewish identity in the community

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics

• Initiative proposed to Avrum, Joseph and Louis
  Drazin to honour memory of their parents, Samuel
  and Gertrude Drazin

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics Judaica

• Examines many aspects of Jewish culture and life
• reference works, memoirs, art work and fiction
  representing historical and contemporary times.
• Judaica emphasis on
• Jewish history
• Holocaust
• Growth of the State of Israel
• Canadian, Quebec and Montreal Jewry
• Jewish history of Montreal
• Jewish art, music, medicine
• Synagogue history
• Archaeology of Israel
• Jewish holidays

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics Medical Ethics
and Bioethics

• Books written by physicians, clerics and
  ethicists
• Birth
• End-of-life
• Ethics in administration
• Patient rights
• Emergency medicine
• Critical care
• Psychiatry
• Religious values in health and medicine
• Human cloning
• Intensive care
• Multicultural issues
• Nursing
• Professional misconduct
• AIDS, SARS

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics Fiction

• Classic Jewish writers
• Humor
• Philosophy
• Biography
• Poetry
• Dictionaries

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics

• New acquisitions purchased annually
• Recommandations from
• Clinical Ethicist
• Chief Medical Librarian
• "New Bioethics Titles" from the Kennedy
  Institute of Ethics
• Current topics
• Staff

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The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library
for Judaica and Medical Ethics

• Main priority is Jewish content " soul of the
  HSL "
• Over 1600 titles
• Maintain three paper journals
• Challenges
• Circulation
• Browsing
• Some new titles...