[SOA] Lloyd Library Begins New Research Initiative

[Anna Heran]

Anna K. Heran
Archivist/IT Specialist
Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati OH 45202
(513) 721-3707
www.lloydlibrary.org <http://www.lloydlibrary.org/> 
 

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PRESS RELEASE                 Contact:    Maggie Heran, Director

                                          Lloyd Library & Museum

                                          513-721-3707

mheran at lloydlibrary.org

 

For Immediate Release

 

February 14, 2008

 

Lloyd Library and Museum Launches New Initiative:

Historical Research Center for the Natural Health Movement

 

Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 4-7pm the Lloyd Library and Museum kicks
off a new endeavor in its long tradition of collecting, maintaining,
preserving, and making accessible historic and current books and
journals, as well as archival materials, on a wide variety of
disciplines that fall under the subjects of natural history, botany,
pharmacy, and medicine-an endeavor critically needed to balance and
enhance the documentation of medicinal botany-the creation of the
Historical Research Center for the Natural Health Movement.  This
initiative will position the Lloyd to become the central repository for
the archives and personal papers of those involved in both scientific
and grass roots efforts to bring natural health into the mainstream.

The March 1st event will feature speakers Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist,
author, and instructor, presenting "A History of Late 20th Century
Herbal Pioneers;" A. Douglas Kinghorn, Jack L. Beal Professor and Chair
in Natural Products Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy,
The Ohio State University, presenting "The Development of Pharmacognosy
in 20th Century United States;" Mark Blumenthal,Founder and Executive
Director, American Botanical Council, presenting "The Importance of
Documenting the History of the Natural Health Movement;" and Anna K.
Heran, Archivist, Lloyd Library and Museum presenting "A Case in Point:
The Varro "Tip" Tyler Papers."  Other activities include the formal
opening of Tip Tyler's papers for research, an exhibit from the Tyler
Papers, Lynn Carden's art exhibit "It Began at the Lloyd: An Artist's
Journey," and a catered reception.

The Lloyd Library is prepared and equipped to offer its facilities and
services to house, maintain, preserve, organize, and make accessible in
one location this crucial body of knowledge for the scholars of today
and tomorrow who will be investigating the natural health movement.  Not
only does the library have a professional archivist on staff with more
than ten years experience, but it is also in the process of developing a
space plan to accommodate new archival collections.  New collections
will be added to the library's existing archival collections, covering
names and institutions in the fields of pharmacognosy, herbalism,
chemistry, and pharmacy.  They will join already existing collections
such as those of John Uri Lloyd; Lloyd Brothers, Pharmacists, Inc.;
Varro E. Tyler; George Hocking; Alex Berman; Stephen Buhner; Susun Weed;
Clarence Meyer (author of Herbalist Almanac); the Eclectic Medical
Institute of Cincinnati; John Milton Scudder; and Robert F. Raffauf,
among many others.

The Lloyd's new initiative is significant in that currently there is no
other known institutional endeavor to collect such materials as widely
as the Lloyd Library will with the establishment of this research
center.  The Lloyd is seeking cooperation from all participants in the
natural health movement to help establish a centralized location for the
study of the ongoing development of medicinal botany and other
alternative healing practices.  This center will assist researchers by
reducing the amount of travel needed to complete their studies, as well
as provide an indispensible contextual environment complete with a vast
collection of current and historical works, both published and
unpublished.

In addition, the library is the optimum site for this project because in
many respects, the Lloyd already is the "Historical Research Center for
the Natural Health Movement."  An increased effort to add archival
collections to its many other significant resources will enhance its
goal of comprehensive documentation in the fields of naturopathic
healing and alternative medicine.  In addition, this project continues
and honors the legacy of founder John Uri Lloyd, who was relentless in
his investigation and advocacy of medicinal botany.  He and his brothers
not only built the library, but also provided for its future, because
they understood the critical need to acquire historic and current
resources and preserve them for posterity.  The establishment of this
research center underscores their commitment and embodies their belief
that the past is the path to the future.

      For more information, visit the Lloyd website at
www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Open third Saturday of the month, September through May, 9:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.

 

 

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life

 

 

 
Maggie Heran, MLS, Director
Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
mheran at lloydlibrary.org
Phone: 513-721-3707
Fax: 513-721-6575
www.lloydlibrary.org
 
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