In 2005, the Eccles Health Sciences Library was gifted a research catalog belonging to the late Irene Loewenfeld, PhD. A prominent and respected researcher of the human eye, Dr. Loewenfeld edited and published the principal medical textbook on the pupil in 1993 after conducting over 50 years of research on the subject. We will present on Dr. Loewenfeld’s methodology for collecting, synthesizing and organizing her own research and the cultural significance of her achievements.
Objective 1 To gain an understanding of the process involved in digitizing and organizing a private medical research catalog in a medical library setting
Objective 2 To gain an understanding of the process and methodology for cataloging extensive private medical research
Objective 3 To gain an understanding of the life and research of a prominent scholar of the pupil of the human eye, and the cultural significance of her achievements as a woman in this field
