Скачать или смотреть Preserving Community Pharmacy History: Institutional and Personal Approaches

In this presentation, Hannah Swan, archivist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, will take a two-pronged approach to archival histories of the community pharmacy. She will first highlight the collections of the Edward Kremers Research Library and Archive, exploring manuscripts, books, and ephemera available to researchers. Several case studies will foreground what these materials can teach us not only about pharmacy history, but about broader social, cultural, and economic histories as well. The second half of the presentation will be dedicated to the practical side of collection management. Hannah will share her expertise both as an archives and library professional and as a personal collector. (She was the 2022 recipient of the National U.K. Book Collecting Prize for her personal collection of books and ephemera.) She will touch on her work processing and digitizing the EKRLA collections, but also how this work can be scaled down for the hobbyist pharmacy collector. Topics covered will include cataloging, digitization, and basic preservation.

Hannah Rose Swan is the archivist for the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, currently working on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant-funded project to process, digitize, and exhibit the collections of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Archives and Records Management from University College London and a master’s in Book History and Material Culture from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she has worked on the collections of the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum, the Public Library of Brookline, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Tajikistan, after which she spent time living and working in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is the 2022 recipient of both the Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize and the U.K. National Book Collecting Prize from the ABA for her personal collection of midcentury party-planning books and ephemera.