Volume 11, Number 3: September/October 2005

Page 2 – The University and its Libraries celebrate 125 years of growth and service to the citizens of Connecticut. • UConn joins the Center for Research Libraries, the nation’s oldest and most significant library consortium. Page 3 - A profile of Stanley Israelite recounts his civic contributions and his role as a creator of the Dodd Research Center. Page 4 - The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center celebrates its 10th anniversary with a series of special events. • The Pharmacy Library occupies new quarters in UConn’s new Pharmacy/Biology Building. Page 5 - The 2005 Connecticut Children’s Book Fair features a great lineup of authors and illustrators. Page 6 - Staff News • The Wharton Data Research Service is now available for financial research. Page 7 - Donors to the University Libraries, January 1 – June 30, 2005

Volume 15, Number 3: September/October 2009

Page 2 The Vice Provost for University Libraries contends the library’s new organizational structure, which aligns with the University’s Academic Plan, will improve services to users. Page 3 UConn alumna and former UConn librarian Nancy Mattoon Kline ’59 pledges seed money to establish the Earl and Dora Mattoon Ward Fund for Human Rights Photojournalism Collections at the Dodd Research Center. Page 5 The new director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies traces its 35 year history and future plans.

Volume 15, Number 2: April/May 2009

Page 2: Vice Provost for University Libraries recounts the Libraries' accomplishments made in the face of a challenging economy. Page 3: Veteran writer and editor Alexander Gavitt Jr. from UConn's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources donates his papers to the Dodd Research Center. Page 5: The late animal cloning pioneer Jerry Yang is remembered by a former graduate student.

Na 1 Nachlass Max Horkheimer, 691 - "Materialien zum Antisemitismus", "Die deutschen Arbeiter und Angestellten", "Neue Enquêten über Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit" (p. IX 164 - IX 166.1-13)

"Materialien zum Antisemitismus" (1940-65): Zeitungsausschnitte, Broschüren, Drucksachen; "Die deutschen Arbeiter und Angestellten" (1930-38):; 1. Inhaltsverzeichnisse, Typoskripte, 5 Blatt; 2. Fragebogen zur Erhebung, Druck, 4 Blatt; 3. Statistische Auswertung der Fragebögen; 4. Max Horkheimer: eigenhändige Notzizen zur Erhebung, 1 Blatt; 5. Robert S. Lynd: 1 Brief (Abschrift) an Erich Fromm, New York, 7.2.1938; 6. "Arbeiter und Angestellten-Enquête". Zum Stand der Ausarbeitung, 1937, Typoskript, 3 Blatt; 7. Bibliographien, Typoskripte, 42 Blatt; "Neue Enquêten über Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit" (1936-37):; 1. Liste der Erhebungen in Österreich, Palestina, USA, 5 Blatt; 2. "Remarque générale sur l'enquête". Typoskript mit eigenhändigen Korrekturen, 9 Blatt; 3. - 6. Protokolle von Familieninterviews in Wien, 1937; 7. "Literatur über die psychologischen Wirkungen der Arbeitslosigkeit" (1936). Typoskript, 15 Blatt; 8. Hilde Oppenheimer-Bluhm: 1 Brief mit Unterschrift an Friedrich Pollock, Jerusalem, 7.12.1936, 1 Blatt; 9. Paul F. Lazarsfeld: "Memorandum Subject: Remarks on the French Questionaire" (12.3.1937). Typoskript, 1 Blatt; 10. Paul F. Lazarsfeld: "Report on the University of Newark Research Center". Als Typoskript vervielfältigt, 9 Blatt; 11. "Publications Directed and Distributed by Bureau of Social Research, Municipal University of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska". Als Typoskript viervielfältigt, 3 Blatt; 12. Programm zur Conférence Internationale des Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1937, Drucksachen, 3 Blatt; 13. The American Sociological Society: Rundschreiben, Drucksache, 2 Blatt;

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: SMALL-VOLUME INFUSION PUMPS

"Technology assessment is a comprehensive form of policy research that examines the short- and long-term social consequences of the application or use of technology" (US Congress 1967).^ This study explored a research methodology appropriate for technology assessment (TA) within the health industry. The case studied was utilization of external Small-Volume Infusion Pumps (SVIP) at a cancer treatment and research center. Primary and secondary data were collected in three project phases. In Phase I, hospital prescription records (N = 14,979) represented SVIP adoption and utilization for the years 1982-1984. The Candidate Adoption-Use (CA-U) diffusion paradigm developed for this study was germane. Compared to classic and unorthodox curves, CA-U more accurately simulated empiric experience. The hospital SVIP 1983-1984 trends denoted assurance in prescribing chemotherapy and concomitant balloon SVIP efficacy and efficiency. Abandonment of battery pumps was predicted while exponential demand for balloon SVIP was forecast for 1985-1987. In Phase II, patients using SVIP (N = 117) were prospectively surveyed from July to October 1984; the data represented a single episode of therapy. The questionnaire and indices, specifically designed to measure the impact of SVIP, evinced face validity. Compeer group data were from pre-SVIP case reviews rather than from an inpatient sample. Statistically significant results indicated that outpatients using SVIP interacted socially more than inpatients using the alternative technology. Additionally, the hospital's education program effectively taught clients to discriminate between self care and professional SVIP services. In these contexts, there was sufficient evidence that the alternative technology restricted patients activity whereas SVIP permitted patients to function more independently and in a social lifestyle, thus adding quality to life. In Phase III, diffusion forecast and patient survey findings were combined with direct observation of clinic services to profile some economic dimensions of SVIP. These three project phases provide a foundation for executing: (1) cost effectiveness analysis of external versus internal infusors, (2) institutional resource allocation, and (3) technology deployment to epidemiology-significant communities. The models and methods tested in this research of clinical technology assessment are innovative and do assess biotechnology. ^

MS 066 Guide to the Howard B. Hamilton, MD, papers; 1945-1997

The Howard B. Hamilton, MD, papers, MS 66, includes material from 1945-1997 related to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF). Hamilton was the Chief of Clinical Laboratories for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission from 1956 until its dissolution in 1975. He served in the same capacity for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, which succeeded the ABCC, until 1984. This collection encompasses this period of time in Dr. Hamilton's career, as well as his related scholarly work after his retirement from RERF. Dr. Hamilton donated his collection of letters, reprints, newspaper articles, photographs, memos, and ephemera to the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center between 1985 and 2002. The collection is in good condition and consists of 3.75 cubic feet (10 boxes).

MS#73 William C. Moloney, M.D., papers; 1952-1954

Dr. Moloney kept a personal journal, with photographs, for much of his two years with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan. Along with other scientists, he studied the biological and medical effects of ionized radiation on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. In January of 1986, Dr. Moloney donated his journal, correspondence and diary pages to the Harris County Medical Archive, whose collections were later incorporated into the Texas Medical Center Library. Dr. Moloney's journal is in relatively good shape containing a mix of handwritten notes and comments, news-clippings, photos, and ephemera. The journal is an important record of personal impressions, thoughts and details of events during a pivotal time in Japan. This 192-pagee journal gives new insights into the work of the ABCC and into the people who participated in that work. The journal covers the period from April 1952 to February 1954. In these documents, Moloney records his struggles with understanding the Japanese culture, his frustration at not being allowed to treat the survivors he studied, and his concerns, fears, hopes and revelations as he dealt with the bombing survivors and their children. The original papers are open for research at the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center in the TMC Library in Houston.