Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:47:46 -0500
From: Maggie Heran <[log in to unmask]>

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PRESS RELEASE                                         Contact:
Maggie Heran, Director

Lloyd Library & Museum

513-721-3707

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For Immediate Release

Date:   February 24, 2005

Lloyd Library and Museum Announces Expanded and Enhanced Website

The Lloyd Library and Museum is pleased to announce important additions
and enhancements to its website.  New features include databases never
before available and now accessed only on our website.  They are the
Eclectic Medical Journal Index, created by the Lloyd Staff, and
Pharmacists in World War II, created and maintained by Lloyd Scholar,
Dennis Worthen, in conjunction with his book, Pharmacy in World War II.
The Eclectic Medical Journal Index is the only one available for this
Cincinnati publication and indexes its entire run of 97 volumes
published from 1849 to 1937.  Pharmacists in World War II includes over
11,000 pharmacists, pharmacy students, and those returning from the
military on the GI Bill.

Also new is our first online exhibit-a virtual representation of the
Lloyd's successful 2003-2004 exhibit Mining the Lloyd: Book Artists
Reveal Secrets and Treasures from the Lloyd Library and Museum.  The
Lloyd collaborated with local artists Susan Brumm and Diane Stemper in
inviting book artists to choose a text from the library's collection and
use it as an inspiration for a new creation.  The online exhibit is a
reproduction of the exhibit catalog and features color photographs of
the artists' books, their statements, and the title of the Lloyd text
that inspired the work.  Introductions from co-curators, Brumm and
Stemper, explore the relationship between science and art, making the
case for a visual arts display within a scientific context. Another
improvement has recently been negotiated with the University of
Cincinnati Libraries that makes searching Lloyd's holdings through UC's
online catalog easier for our patrons.  Accessed from our website,
Lloyd's catalog records have been available through UC's UCLID online
catalog for several years, although up until recently it was not
possible to search only Lloyd holdings.  One can now change location to
the Lloyd Library and Museum before searching, which eliminates holdings
from other UC libraries or affiliates and returns results only from the
Lloyd.

Other enhancements have been made to simplify access and provide for
more content.  For instance, there is a separate section for Lloyd news
which includes information about events and exhibits, feature articles
and headlines, as well as all press releases issued from the Lloyd.
There is also an expanded section for the Lloyd Scholar with more
information about his publications, projects, activities, and a
biographical sketch.  Our history found in "About Us" now includes all
Lloyd Showcases written by our scholar, which provide supplementary
chapters of the library's past, highlighting several different
biographical aspects of founder John Uri Lloyd. For more information
about the Lloyd Library and Museum, see below.

            The Lloyd Library and Museum, located at 917 Plum Street,
downtown Cincinnati, is a local and regional treasure.  The library was
developed in the nineteenth century by the Lloyd Brothers-John Uri,
Curtis Gates, and Nelson Ashley.  Incorporated in 1898, its original
purpose was to provide a reference and research facility for Lloyd
Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies
of the period.  A trust was established in 1919 to guarantee that the
library would continue to fulfill its mission "to collect and maintain a
library on botanical, medical, pharmaceutical, and scientific books and
periodicals and works of allied sciences" into the future.  The
library's operations are still supported by that trust and today, the
Lloyd Library and Museum is recognized worldwide by the scientific
community as a vital research center.  Housing hundreds of thousands of
volumes on the subjects of pharmacy, botany, horticulture, herbal and
alternative medicines, natural products, homeopathy, and eclectic
medicine, the Lloyd maintains a vast collection of scientific texts-from
the most current works to those that date back hundreds of years.
Included in this rare book collection is an original copy of the
ten-volume Flora Greca (1840) by John Sibthorp, an original copy of
Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal (1739), Mesue Vulgare (a 1493
"common book" of remedies), and an array of rare European texts from the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  The Lloyd also houses archival
collections, including the papers of John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd,
Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., and the Eclectic Medical College of
Cincinnati.  Free parking is available behind the library building.  For
more information about the Lloyd Library and Museum, please visit our
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.;
third Saturday of the month, September through May, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m.

Maggie Heran, M.L.S.
Director
Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Phone: 513/721-3707
Fax: 513/721-6575
email: [log in to unmask]
www.lloydlibrary.org