Beginning in 2013, the Albin O. Kuhn Library's Special Collections and Center for Biological Sciences Archives will be contributing participants in the History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium. Managed by the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division, the Consortium contains finding aids or research guides to over 3,600 archival collections from nearly 40 institutions. Other participants include the Medical Archives at Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, McGill University Osler Library Archives, and Columbia University Health Sciences Library.

Participating in this Consortium will bring increased access to the Center for Biological Sciences Archives collections and will better assist researchers in locating related archival collections outside of UMBC. For example, a researcher using the Consortium search to locate archival materials on immunology will find over 100 results, including the International Union of Immunological Societies records and the American Association of Immunologists records available at UMBC. This Finding Aids Consortium focuses only on archival collections that relate to the history of medicine; a more general archives search is available using ArchiveGrid.

To learn more about the History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium, the Center for Biological Sciences Archives, or general archives related questions, please contact Lindsey Loeper at (410) 455-6290 or lindseyloeper@umbc.edu