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Becker Blog
New Librarian Joins Health Information Services at Becker Medical Library
We are pleased to announce that Cantron (Tré) Quarles has joined Becker Library as a Librarian in Health Information Services. Tré will be a key contributor to Becker’s systematic and scoping review service, in addition to providing valuable reference assistance and library instruction. Prior to coming to WashU, Tré worked at Harvard Medical School’s Countway [Read more]
Explore the History of Hearing Aids through a New Digital Exhibit!
“How Did We Get Hear? Historic Hearing Devices 1800-2000” is a new digital exhibit from the Becker Archives that explores the long history of hearing devices, from mechanical conversation tubes to electronic transistor hearing aids. The exhibit features nearly 100 different hearing devices from Becker Archives’ Central Institute for the Deaf–Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices [Read more]
ORCID Adoption and WashU Medicine
Since October 2022, the Bernard Becker Medical Library has been monitoring ORCID adoption among the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis faculty. This process was in response to the August 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memo: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research, (OSTP Memo). In [Read more]