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Who can use the Mulford Library? |
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Departments at the Mulford Library include Information Services (which includes reference assistance and education services), Access Services (which includes circulation, reserves, and interlibrary loan), and Library Administration. Bibliographic control (acquisitions, cataloging, serials, etc.) is provided centrally and located at the Carlson Library on Main Campus. A directory of Mulford staff is available, and additional information about the departments and staff members at the Carlson Library is available on their web site.
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Who can use the Mulford Library?
Although our primary users are University faculty, residents, staff, and students, anyone is welcome to come in and use the Library for healthcare research. Some helpful hints for people from the community using the Library:
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Getting to the Mulford Library
The Mulford Library is located on the University of Toledo Health Science Campus (former campus of the Medical College/University of Ohio). To get to campus:
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History of the Raymon H. Mulford Library
The Raymon H. Mulford Library has its beginnings in 1967 with the hiring of Ronald M. Watterson, MSLS, founding librarian. Mr. Watterson and a small staff organized the first Medical College of Ohio Library at the William Roche Memorial Hospital on South Detroit Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Robert G. Page, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. Liberato J. A. DiDio, Chairman, Dept. of Anatomy, Dr. William Easson, Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Mr. Harold Bloomquist (consultant, Francis Countway Library, Harvard University), and Mr. Watterson were appointed to the Library Building Committee, communicating their vision of the future structure to the architects. The building was designed by Don M. Hisaka and Associates, Architects.
Ground breaking for the library building took place on January 11, 1973. Estimated at a pre-construction cost of $6 million, it was the second building constructed on the Medical College of Ohio campus. The Library was dedicated on May 15, 1975. Dr. Richard Ruppert, then a member of the Ohio Board of Regents, was the speaker. The Mulford Library was featured in the Mid-August 1975 issue of Architectural Record, pages 74-77. The issue focused on engineering for architecture, and included a feature citing "12 Examples of Effective Architect-Engineer Collaboration." The execution of the architectural plan was hailed by the Record as "Bravaura Performance Lends Glamour to a Concrete Structure."
The Library is named for Raymon H. Mulford, a former president of Owens-Illinois (1961-1968) who led the Toledo company during the era of its largest financial growth. In addition to being a skilled businessman, Mr. Mulford was a local and national civic leader who served as vice-president of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. He was a trustee of the National Center for Voluntary Action during Richard Nixon's presidency and locally showed interest in understanding the problems faced by the chronically unemployed.
Mr. Watterson retired in August, 1990, and was honored by the Medical College of Ohio in 1991 when he was named Librarian Emeritus. At that time the Special Collections Room on the fourth floor of the Library was renamed the Ronald M. Watterson Room. Mr. Watterson is remembered for his role in the design of the MCO flag, the MCO seal, MCO trustee robes, and the Dominick Labino glass mace that is used at graduation ceremonies. Mr. Watterson died in 1993. Dr. Liberato J. A. DiDio served as the Acting Director after Watterson's retirement until David W. Boilard was hired as Library Director in 1991.
Since that time, the Library has begun its evolution toward a digital environment. Today, the Mulford Library offers access to over 85 full-text electronic textbooks and 773 electronic journals, has an active information management education service, web-based services including the internationally recognized, "Instructions to Authors" page, a third-generation online catalog, and outreach services. In 1993, the Mulford Library became a founding member of OhioLINK, a statewide consortium of public and private universities and colleges. The OhioLINK consortium provides access to over 45 million monographic titles (10 million unique titles; including the collections of six other Ohio medical school libraries), over 100 research databases, nearly 7000 full-text electronic journals, patron-initiated borrowing of book materials, and free interlibrary loans.
The Library holds several interesting art pieces including the Chinese Fu dogs, a bust of Johannes Von Mikulicz-Radecki presented by the Toledo Surgical Society, and the MCO Time Capsule. Annually, the first year medical students honor and remember those who donated their bodies to scientific study by presenting a memorial piece to the Library. A painting, Model and Drawing (by Adam Grant), was the first to be donated followed by a needlework piece, a quilted wall hanging, and numerous memory albums.
In July 2006, when the Medical University of Ohio merged with the University of Toledo to become the new University of Toledo, the Mulford Library became part of the University of Toledo Libraries.