Shiri Alon , MLIS Jewish General Hospital Presented to the AJL Annual Convention June 20, 2011

1. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical EthicsA unique collection within the JGH Health Sciences Library Shiri Alon, MLISJewish General Hospital Presented to the AJL Annual Convention June 20, 2011

2. The JGH Health Sciences Library • Over 4000 books • Two sub-collections • Patient and Family Resource Center (PFRC) • The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics

3. The JGH Health Sciences Library Health Sciences Library space Drazin Fiction Patient and Family Resource Center

4. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics

5. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics • Initiated by Rabbi Myer Schecter (1929-2005) • Establishment of a Judaica and Medical Ethics Library: • would help further promote the JGH as a unique acute care hospital • strengthen its Jewish identity in the community

6. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics • Initiative proposed to Avrum, Joseph and Louis Drazin to honour memory of their parents, Samuel and Gertrude Drazin

7. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics: Judaica • Examines many aspects of Jewish culture and life • reference works, memoirs, art work and fiction representing historical and contemporary times. • Judaica emphasis on: • Jewish history • Holocaust • Growth of the State of Israel • Canadian, Quebec and Montreal Jewry • Jewish history of Montreal • Jewish art, music, medicine • Synagogue history • Archaeology of Israel • Jewish holidays

8. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics: Medical Ethics and Bioethics • Books written by physicians, clerics and ethicists • Birth • End-of-life • Ethics in administration • Patient rights • Emergency medicine • Critical care • Psychiatry • Religious values in health and medicine • Human cloning • Intensive care • Multicultural issues • Nursing • Professional misconduct • AIDS, SARS

9. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics: Fiction • Classic Jewish writers • Humor • Philosophy • Biography • Poetry • Dictionaries

10. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics • New acquisitions purchased annually • Recommandations from: • Clinical Ethicist • Chief Medical Librarian • "New Bioethics Titles" from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics • Current topics • Staff

11. The Samuel and Gertrude Drazin Memorial Library for Judaica and Medical Ethics • Main priority is Jewish content– " soul of the HSL " • Over 1600 titles • Maintain three paper journals • Challenges: • Circulation • Browsing • Some new titles...