• • Renamed Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in 1965.

• • But in a title: Harvard Medical School. Department of Health Care Policy.

• • But in a title: Harvard Medical School. Department of Social Medicine.

610 20 |a Harvard Medical School. |b Office for Faculty Affairs. 

610 20 |a Harvard Medical School. |b Office of Resource Development. 

610 20 |a Harvard Medical School. |b Office of the Dean. 

• Use for 2013 and earlier.

• Use for 2014 and later.

Hospitals

• Use for 1996-present. Use the following earlier headings for records prior to 1996:
  
  

• Opened in  1916; merged with New England Deaconess in 1996 to form Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
  
  

• Opened in 1896; merged with Beth Israel Hospital in 1996 to make Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
  
  

• 1980-present. Result of 1980 renaming of the Affiliated Hospitals Center (made up of the Robert B. Brigham Hospital, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston Hospital for Women).
  
  

• Name use dates: 1975-1980. Result of a 1975 merger of the Boston Lying-in Hospital, Robert B. Brigham Hospital, and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
  
  

• Result of 1966 merger of Boston Lying-in Hospital and the Free Hospital for Women; merged with Robert B. Brigham Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1975 to form the Affiliated Hospitals Center; renamed Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980.
  
  

• Founded in 1832; in 1975 merged with the Robert B. Brigham and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals to form the Affiliated Hospitals Center; in 1980, this became the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
  
  

• Founded in 1913; became part of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1980.
  
  

•  Opened in 1914; merged with Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1975.
  
  

• Formed in 1996 from the merger of Cambridge Hospital and Somerville Hospital. 
  
  

• Also known as Cambridge City Hospital, merged with Somerville Hospital to form Cambridge Health Alliance in 1996. 
  
  

• Founded in 1947 as Sidney Farber Cancer Institute; renamed in 1983.
  
  

• Founded in 1947; renamed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 1983.
  
  

• Opened in 1965; is a merger between the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical Library. The Boston Medical Library still exists as a separate entity.
  
  

• 1996-present; sucessor to the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children.
  
  

• 1910-1996; predecessor to the Forsyth Institute.
  
  

• Use for 1981-present. For material prior to 1981 use earlier heading:
  
  

• Founded in 1824 as Boston Eye Infirmary (no LCSH heading could be found for Boston Eye Infirmary).
  
  

• 1827 name of incorporation for Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
  
  

610 20 |a McLean Hospital.

• Founded in 1818.
  
  

• Original name for McLean Hospital.
  
  

• Alternate nineteenth century name for McLean Hospital; exact date(s) of use could not be located.
  
  

• Founded in 1866; known as Cambridge Hospital until 1947.

Genre/Format Terms

Audio Format Headings

• Phonograph records, invented by the RCA company in the mid-20th century, which eventually replaced 78-rpm records in terms of production and popularity.

• Phonograph records played at 78 revolutions-per-minute, the standard playing speed for records until the mid-20th century. The maximum length of play per side was 4 1/2 minutes, and they appeared most commonly in ten-inch and twelve-inch formats.

• Magnetic tape wrapped around two reels, housed in a compact case

• Magnetic tape audio recordings. Use for audiotape recordings that do not fit in “Tape reels” or “Audiocassettes”. 

• Cylinders, usually coated in wax. Sound was recorded with a stylus and played back using a cylinder phonograph. 

• Optical disks used to store and play back digital audio recordings through the use of a laser. 

• Magnetic tapes on which sound is recorded digitally.

• Phonograph records originally invented by Columbia Records, first introduced in 1948. The records have a rotational speed of 33 1/3 rpm (revolutions per minute), and have very fine grooves. They, along with 45 rpm records, replaced 78 rpm records in popularity.

• Very small audiocassettes roughly a quarter of the size of a standard audiocassette that use a capstan drive system.

• Small audiocassettes that are approximately one quarter the size of a standard cassette, and that use only the reels to achieve tape transport.

• Sound recordings on grooved discs made of polyvinyl chloride, shellac, or other materials. Use this heading for 45-rpm records, 78-rpm records, long-playing records (LPs), audograph recordings, and graphophone records. 

• Sound recordings on reels of magnetic tape. Use this heading for reel-to-reel tapes. 

• Sound recordings on spools of wire. 
  
  

Electronic/Digital Format Headings

• Optical disks on which audio, data, and programs are recorded and accessed digitally using lasers. Use this heading for CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, and CD-ROMs.

• Information, especially digital information. 

• Structured sets of data held in computer storage, especially those that incorporate software to make them accessible in a variety of ways. A database is used to store, query, and retrieve information, typically comprising a logical collection of interrelated information that is managed as a unit, stored in machine-readable form, and organized and structured as records that are presented in a standardized format in order to allow rapid search and retrieval by a computer.

• Sets of information describing the contents, format, and structure of a database and the relationship between its elements, used to control access to and manipulation of the database.

• Filmless x-ray examination technique which produces images that can be stored as a computer file. 

• Optical disks on which video recordings and data are recorded and accessed digitally using lasers. DVD capacity is approximately seven times that of CDs. 

• Information electronically recorded that requires a computer or other electronic device for display, interpretion, and processing. 

• Media that facilitate transportability of pertinent information concerning patient's illness across varied providers and geographic locations. Some versions include direct linkages to online consumer health information that is relevant to the health conditions and treatments related to a specific patient.

• Images recorded and stored in computer and video systems.

• Communication by means of a system that allows computer users to exchange messages in electronic format on a network, often but not always comprising messages from one individual to one or many others via telecommunications links between computers or terminals.

• Messages between computer users.

• Compilations of recorded information, often standardized in format and content and treated as a unit, that are machine readable and created, modified, stored, retrieved, and distributed by digital means. Although analog data is also electronic, this concept does not typically include analog data.

• Memory system used in various data storage devices, including flash drives (AKA jump drives or thumb drives), MultiMediaCards (MMC), Secure Digital cards (SD), miniSD and microSD cards, and Extreme Digital memory cards (xD). 

• Thin, round, magnetic disks, on which data is stored. Disks are usually housed in a protective square plastic case, and measure 8 inches, 5.25 inches, or 3.5 inches. Also use this heading for ZIP disks, which are a type of super-floppy. 

• Information gathered and used for analysis pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the earth’s surface.

• Digital electromagnetic disk with a large data storage capacity, generally housed in a hard drive. 

• Devices housing one or more hard disks for digital data storage and retrieval. 

• Collections of images, usually, but not always, held in electronic format for retrieval by computer. Image databases may contain images of works of art, documents, medical CAT scans, or other images. 

• Data storage devices in disk form that use lasers to write and access data. 

• Perforated paper tape, on which information is recorded digitally by punched holes. 

• Stiff paper on which information is recorded digitally by punched holes.

655 _7 |a Text Messaging |2 mesh

• Interchange of short written messages between cellphone/mobile device users.

Paper Format Headings

• Records that relate to budget, personnel, supply, and similar facilitative operations within an organization.

• Nonprint materials, such as slides, transparencies, motion pictures, or filmstrips, that make use of sight and sound to convey information; refers especially to such materials when used for instruction.

• Personal papers of members of a single family; usually of parents and their children, but sometimes including papers of spouses and their families as well.

• Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources and kept for their informational content.

• Notebooks used in laboratories to make notations and calculations regarding experiments and observations.

• Private documents belonging to an individual. For records kept by public officials or other persons for their private or personal use but relating to their official duties, use "office files."

• Documents amassed in the course of the execution of a vocation, career, or occupation, including correspondence, memos, official forms, etc.

• Documents distributed to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.

• Blank books or albums designed so that a variety of items may be affixed to the pages, including photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia.
  
  

Research Data and Research Administrative Records Format Headings 

• Research data that has been manipulated for analysis, possibly through calculations or visualizations (graphs).

• Research data that has been categorized based on assessments of the research subject. More often found in clinical research. Ex.: patients that have been assigned a category or score based on their observed behavior. 

• Protocols, methodologies, and other sets of instructions used to conduct a clinical research project.

• Code dictionaries and instructions for coding raw data into a machine-readable format.

• Data that has been coded from its raw form into a machine-readable format. Data that is more likely to be coded is likely to have come from a standardized data collection instrument, such as a survey instrument, interview schedule, examination, test, or medical record.

• Refers to any type of data. It is useful to apply a more specific heading, either instead of, or in addition to, this one.

• A bank of data, usually electronic, used to manage and analyze data collected throughout a project.

• Research administrative records related to grant funding. May include grant applications, reports, correspondence, and other related records.

• Records related to Institutional Review Board (IRB) requirements and decisions. Might include applications, cede review applications (for ceding administration of a project to another institution), reports, safety plans (for clinical research), and confidentiality agreements. 

• Standardized interview instructions and forms used by interviewers during clinical and social research. 

• Data collected during research that has not been manipulated in any way. May include data that has been entered into forms, tables/spreadsheets, survey instruments, or other data collection instruments.

• Any passage composed to summarize a set of data (raw, analyzed, or otherwise). Not to be confused with summary statistics (mean, median, mode), which would be categorized under analyzed data.

• Standard forms generated and/or used during the research project to collect information from study participants.
  
  
  

Visual Format Headings 

•  Refers to a broad class of photographs having images in gray tones, black, and white, and sometimes one hue (which can result from chemical processes used, including toning, or from aging).

• Slides having images composed of gray tones, black, and clear areas; may include one hue as a result of process, toning, or discoloration.

• The broad class of photographs having images composed of more than one hue, plus the neutral tones. 

• Photographic slides having images composed of more than one hue, plus the neutral tones. 

• 16-mm or 35-mm strips of positive film, usually containing 30 to 50 frames of pictures and text. Filmstrips were usually displayed using a projector while an accompanying audio recording was played separately. 

• Betacam videotape with digital quality resolution. Introduced by Sony in 1993.

• Describes images created using a binary numerical system electronically stored in the form of encoded picture elements, or pixels.

• Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. 

• Optical discs used to store and play back digital video recordings through the use of a laser. 

• Transparent positive images made or mounted on glass for projection, usually but not necessarily photographic, measuring 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 by 4 inches for projection onto a screen by means of a specialized projector.

• Digital videotape format for digital video recording and playback with excellent resolution.

• Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.

• Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. 

• Photographs of minute objects, usually taken through a microscope. Distinct from "microphotographs," which are images reduced to minute size.

• Images produced on photographic film by a radiation other than light, especially x-rays or gamma rays.

• The thin, flat pieces of glass on which specimens are mounted for the purpose of microscopic examination.

• Positive transparencies in mounts suitable for projection, usually 35mm film in a mount of 2 by 2 inches.

• Proprietary name for an analog videocassette format developed by Sony in 1969, using 3/4" tape with a running speed of 3.75 inches per second. 

• Standard size and format for consumer-level analog recording on videotape cassettes. Describes a videotape one-half inches in width (12.7mm); this videotape format, known primarily as VHS (Video Home System), was developed in the 1970s for use with home videocassette recorders.

• Videotape recordings wound around two reels, housed in a plastic container called a “cassette”. Use this heading for any non-VHS videocassette recordings, including Betacam (TM) and Mini-DV.

• Optical discs used to store both audio and analog video recordings through the use of lasers. Discs are larger than DVDs, and are sometimes housed in plastic cases resembling floppy disk cases. 
  
  

• Magnetic tape video recordings (sometimes including sound). Use this heading for reel-to-reel video recordings. 

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