LIBRARY FLASHBACK WITH STANFORD ALUMNI

SUMC alumni recount their memories of Lane Medical Library, and discuss how the library is transforming itself for the future.

Marcus Krupp (MD '39) first encountered Lane Library 71 years ago. He remembers the mural paintings of Arthur F. Mathews and the special meetings of the Zadig Society.
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Hewey Lee (MD '49) used the library a lot, mostly in the evenings, and remembers the extensive collections and the superb library service of being able to get whatever he needed.
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Dean Clark (MD '52) recalls the days when the Ob/Gyn Clinic was in the basement of the Lane Library. He also reminisces about attending the lunchtime medical history class taught by Dr. Reichert in the rare book room.
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Robert Cody (MD '57) remembers the grand Lane Medical Library building on the corner of Sacramento and Webster in San Francisco and what it was like before photocopiers.
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Ross Bright (MD '58) reminisces about the first Lane Library in San Francisco (a "magnificent old stone structure sitting on the hill, often enshrouded in fog"), and talks about the differences he noticed between the old San Francisco library and the new Palo Alto one when he returned to Stanford for his internship in 1961.
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Harry Glatstein (MD '61) recalls the months leading up to Lane's move to Palo Alto and remembers the helpfulness of the Lane Library staff.
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Irving Weissman (MD '65), Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, talks about what it was like when Lane Medical Library first moved to Palo Alto from San Francisco.
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Eleanor Hedenkamp (RN, MS, IBCLIC '66) remembers using Lane a lot as both a nursing school student and a clinical nurse specialist, and contrasts the days of digging around in the stacks for bound journals with today's online access.
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Eugene Ogrod (MD'70), JD recalls Lane Library as a social center surrounded by open fields, and talks about how medical libraries today connect both physicians and patients with quality medical information.
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Klaus Porzig (MD '73) describes how leafing through Index Medicus in the '60s and '70s has been replaced with logging on to the Lane Library website.
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Fernando Mendoza (MD '75), Professor of Pediatrics, remembers Lane Library as his home away from home, and discusses the early years of getting computers into the curriculum.
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Larry Mathers (PhD '71, MD '82), Associate Professor of Pediatrics, remembers many evenings spent amongst Lane Library's stacks and journal collections -- as an undergraduate, a graduate student, and again as a medical student.
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LIBRARY FLASHBACK WITH LANE STAFF

Peter Stangl, Director of Lane Medical Library, 1971-1996, recalls the first selected dissemination of information service piloted by Anna Hoehn, the only Reference librarian at Lane when he arrived in 1971. It was a highly personalized service that entailed Mrs. Hoehn's ability to read and scan all of the new journals and then personally telephone physicians and faculty members with information about new articles published in their field. Peter was grateful for the continued involvement of his predecessor, Clara Manson. She served as Library Director in San Francisco, orchestrated the move to Palo Alto in 1959, and retired in 1971. Miss Manson put Peter in touch with all the people he needed to know to get the most challenging problems solved. Peter discusses the biggest change to libraries which occurred just before 1971. With the introduction of the AIM/TWIX project, Lane got to participate in beta testing the first teletype machine from the National Library of Medicine. This offline computer system was the beginning of what we all know today as PubMed. Since the introduction of computerized searching, things have just gotten better, faster, and more elaborate. But before this, there was nothing...
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LIBRARY FLASHBACK MONTAGE

This video montage, which contains snippets of the above interviews, was shown at the Centennial Open House on April 28th.
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