Holdings:

The Chapter’s photograph collection dates back to 1951. Currently a project is under way to digitize the photo collection and make it available on the Chapter’s web site.

Inquires about the Chapter’s archives and photo collection should be directed to:

Pamela Kerns
57 Montague Street, Apt. 9J
Brooklyn, New York 11201
718-855-7448
E-mail: Pamela Kerns

Materials

Please send archival materials to:

Stephen Novak
Archives and Special Collections at Columbia University
Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library
701 West 168th St., LL1-25A
New York, NY 10032
Attention: NY/NJ Chapter Archives

Access:

A finding aid for the documents is available in paper copy or on a CD.

Management:

The Archives Committee is responsible for the maintenance of the Chapter’s archives. A list of current Archives committee members is available.

Historical Note:

The New York Regional Group, the predecessor organization of the chapter, was organized in 1951. Its documents were passed from committee to committee. In 1987-88, Pamela Kerns during her term as chapter chair appointed an archives committee which began to organize our documents, photographs and artifacts. Barbara Niss, the archivist at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Hospital, reviewed the collection and wrote the guidelines for its management. Members of the Chapter maintained the Archives. Judith Topper based her history of the Chapter on its documents.

In 1993, a serious backlog had developed. Arsenia Q. Avetria of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Chair of the committee proposed the employment of a professional archivist; she also developed the budget to come to grips with the backlog and to plan the reorganization of the archives.

Kathleen A. Moeller, Chair 1993-1994, and the board implemented the plan and provided the funds. Carla Tobias, a certified archivist who had organized the Archives of HSLANJ (Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey), was appointed as part-time archivist of our collection. The arrangement and the finding list is her effort.

This information was provided by the Archives Committee.