1970s

1970

• Library Books and Journals: 76,500
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,360
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $585, Other $1,315
• Number of Medical Students: 329

• A camp for children with asthma and cystic fibrosis is established at the Children’s Rehabilitation Center.
• The Health Sciences Library (aka the Medical Library) adds a new copy machine for evening and weekend use.
• Dr. Wilhelm Moll, Director of the Health Sciences Library, supervises the enlargement and reorganization of the Medical History Collection.
• A fire in the attic of Cabell Hall damages 10,000 volumes in the Health Sciences Library’s storage area.
• The Health Sciences Library offers modern “reference services” with the establishment of online computer searching.
• The Division of Plastic Surgery becomes a full-fledged department.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1970

Dr. Everett Cato Drash, Professor of Surgery, retires in June after 39 years

Medical students in the laboratory

Dr. Tom Hunter receives the Thomas Jefferson Award

Dr. Edward Hook, Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine

The addition of the linear accelerator makes the University of Virginia one of the better-equipped radiation therapy sections in the Eastern U.S.

Dr. William Muller, Chairman of the Department of Surgery

1971

• Library Books and Journals: 84,791
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,444
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• The need for a new library is acute—we have the same space that we had in 1929! We are not talking about a place just to store books and periodicals but a building to house new types of audiovisual and computer facilities …. This new facility with new equipment can play a major role in our program in Continuing Education for the practicing physicians—an exceedingly important part of our total educational program. Friends and alumni have already contributed one-half million dollars, but it will require an additional two million dollars to complete. This is our number one priority for capital outlay!

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Medical students in the Library’s Reading Room

Officers of the School of Nursing Class of 1971

The latest in nursing fashion at the University of Virginia

Third-year medical student and Dr. Wilhelm Moll, Director of the Health Sciences Library, with a model of the new Health Sciences Library Information Center

1972

• Library Books and Journals: 89,046
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,474
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• “Clearly a high priority among our goals for medical education must be to address the complex problems raised by the knowledge explosion.” —William Drucker, Dean, School of Medicine
• The Medical Library and Information Center to become a reality; University of Virginia Medical Center wins grant for a new Medical Library.
• “The primary reason for selecting the site was the idea of placing the new library into the center of existing and future medical and nursing school structures and of unifying the entire health community. Accessibility to the new facility from various parts of the medical and nursing community was also a major consideration.” —Medical Library News, July 1972

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1972

Scenes from Medical School class of 1972’s “The Last Class Play”

Nursing students practicing for their own “last class play”

University of Virginia Medical Center wins grant for a new Medical Library

Graduate Program in the School of Nursing approved

1973

• Library Books and Journals: 85,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,444
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• A new Burn Unit opens on South III.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1973

Student Council Officers for the School of Nursing

(from left to right) Drs. McLemore Birdsong and William R. Drucker, Mr. C. Waller Barrett, and Dr. Wilhelm Moll

The new Jordan Hall

1974

• Library Books and Journals: 94,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,560
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $900, Other $2,200
• Number of Medical Students: 446

• The University of Virginia Hospital is the first medical center in the U.S. to teach courses in hospital infection control and infection surveillance on a state-wide basis.
• Hospital converts to new take-home thermometers.
• McKim Hall undergoes renovation.

Student Council Officers for the School of Nursing

Rose Chioni, the new Dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing

The Corner, circa 1974

The innovative Health Sciences Library links old and new structures. The creation of both a bridge and a library is made possible by the Charlottesville City Council which makes its first grant of air rights

President Edgar Shannon applauds the election of Frank Hereford, Jr. as the fifth president of the University of Virginia

New AstroTurf laid at Scott Stadium just hours before the first game of the season

1975

• Library Books and Journals: 110,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,500
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $1,175, Other $2,650
• Number of Medical Students: 459

• The new Health Sciences Library and Information Center opens August 11th.
• An Audiovisual Center is established in the Library.
• The American Medical Association decides that the term “intern” is obsolete, and all House Staff are to be called “residents.”
• Excavation and demolition begins on homes and land for the new Primary Care Center.

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1975

Camp Holiday Trails

Dr. McLemore Birdsong retires

Classes called off because of snow

1976

• Library Books and Journals: 110, 475
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,564
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• In his dedicatory address on April 9 for the new Health Sciences Library, Dr. Donald Fredrickson, Director of the National Institutes of Health, complimented the Charlottesville City Council on granting air rights for the construction of the Library over a city street. He said, “It completes my earlier search for symbolism of the library in the main stream of traffic.”

The new library, long sought by the University and its alumni, who raised $500,000 for its construction, replaces a facility whose space was essentially the same as in 1929

“I’m delighted about our location. We are almost equal distance from the Medical School and hospital, the Nursing School, and the Jordan building. And, as the Medical Center expands to the south, we will remain more or less in the center of things” —Dr. Welhelm Moll

Dr. Norman J. Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

View of the completed Health Sciences Library

Dr. Daniel N. Mohler

1977

• Library Books and Journals: 114, 869
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,606
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1977

Dean of the School of Nursing, Rose Marie Chioni, with graduate

Dr. Norman J. Knorr named Dean of the School of Medicine

“I am very proud to be appointed Dean of the Medical School. My principal mission in taking on this important assignment will be to further develop the environment in which our faculty and students can work together, and effectively utilize the resources available to the School.”

University of Virginia Traditions: Nursing School Pinning Ceremony, 1977

Perusing a book in the Walter Reed Collection, 1977

1978

• Library Books and Journals: 112,000
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,600
• Medical School Tuition: n/a
• Number of Medical Students: n/a

• ID photos now taken at the University of Virginia Police Department.
• The University of Virginia Health Sciences Library named the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Photo of the Southern Crescent train disaster on December 3, 1978. The University Hospital responds heroically to the disaster

University of Virginia Poison Control Center now accepts telephone calls

New Library corridor connecting the main hospital, Health Sciences Library, and McKim Hall now open

Rare instruments donated to the Health Sciences Library by Dr. Claude Moore

By popular request the hospital snack bar now accommodates a no-smoking section

Blue Ridge Hospital is integrated into the University of Virginia Health System

1979

• Library Books and Journals: 124,634
• Current Library Periodicals: 1,477
• Medical School Tuition: Virginia $2,742, Other $5,742
• Number of Medical Students: 544

• More females choose to go to Medical School.
• The Library reference staff provides nearly 5,000 computerized searches for users
• Parking rates are raised.
• The signing of Ralph Sampson gives hope to the University of Virginia basketball team.

Snow falls on October 10

Dr. James Craig, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine

Norman Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

Dr. Byrd Leavell passes away

Terry Thorkildson is the new Director of the Health Sciences Library

The Health Sciences Library, circa 1979.