Donald Mason Library: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Title: Donald Mason Library: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Description: The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is postgraduate centre devoted to research, education, training, and consultancy in the field of tropical health. Affiliated to the University of Liverpool, the School has links with United Nations organisations, health ministries, universities, non-governmental organisations and research institutions worldwide and is involved in numerous programmes to control diseases of poverty and to develop more effective systems for health care. The School maintains a strong portfolio of research, much of which is based in the developing countries of the tropics. There are also laboratory-based programmes, particularly in the area of parasitic and other communicable diseases. Research ranges from studies devoted to improved delivery of health services to poor and disadvantaged populations, through social science research and clinical intervention studies, to basic studies in the molecular sciences, genomics and immunology of communicable diseases.
The Donald Mason Library is a small, highly specialised library with holdings in tropical medicine, parasitology, veterinary parasitology, entomology, international public health, and Tropical paediatrics. Although not very strong in the area of Caribbean studies the library has approximately 100 monographs covering information about tropical medicine, health care issues, environmental health, agriculture and nutrition in the Caribbean region. This includes 23 reports and technical papers published by the Pan American Health Organisation.
The library has a run of the journal 'Tropical Agriculture' from 1973, and a run of 'West Indian Medical Journal' from 1953. Both emanate from the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, and both are still active.
In addition the library houses over 360 periodicals covering global health issues, such as 'Tropical Doctor', the 'International Journal of Health Services', 'International Agricultural Development' and the 'World Health Organisation Technical Report Series', where current information on the Caribbean will also be found.
As material on the Caribbean is not kept together as a discrete collection, it is advisable to use the University of Liverpool's online library catalogue at http://library.liv.ac.uk/ to locate specific resources.

Strengths: The Donald Mason Library does not have particular strengths in the area of Caribbean studies, but its journals from the region may be of some use to interested scholars.

Size: c.100 monographs and 2 periodicals pertinent to Caribbean studies

Catalogue: Innopac

Catalogue URL: http://library.liv.ac.uk

Main URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/lstm.html

Access: Library open to staff and students of the School and University of Liverpool. Bona fide scholars welcome by appointment.

Acquisition dates: 1898 - present

Note: Please note that the online catalogue includes books from all University of Liverpool libraries not just the Donald Mason Library at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Interest: Caribbean

Complete: Complete

Subjects

Medical sciences

Health

Agriculture

Personal/Corporate names

Places

Caribbean