Heart Gallery LA Photos

In cooperation with WesternU’s Dr. Robert L. Austin Lecture Series, the Pumerantz Library is currently hosting a photo exhibit that showcases portraits of adoptable children coordinated by The Heart GalleryLA.   

Professional photographer and curator Paula Stoeke donates her time and talents to showcase these amazing children in need of adoptive families.  These striking photos will be on display through the end of May 2015.

Infectious diseases and immunization

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The current exhibit on display at the Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library is providing relevant information on selected infectious diseases with information on prevention and immunizations available. The diseases and topics currently on display are:

            History of immunization

            Measles – Treatment and vaccination

            Meningitis & parasitic meningitis – prevention

Two of WesternU’s veterinary professionals have generously loaned the Pumerantz Library their posters on zoonotic diseases. Professor Malika Kachani, DVM, PhD has provided the Library with two posters on Echinoccus granulos and alumnus Roxanna Khorzad, DVM 2008, a poster on Leishmania sp.

We invite you to take a few minutes to come into the Pumerantz Library to view the displays and read through the Measles in the News binder that is updated as new articles come out.  

Ex Libris: Medical Bookplate Digital Exhibit

Medical Bookplates from the Collection of Dr.Bert J. Davidson

Have you ever opened an old book to find a label pasted in the front with the slightly Harry Potter-esque “Ex Libris” written on it? Have you then wondered “what devilry is this be-written twixt yon pages?” Now  you can find out a little more about ex libris during the Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library exhibit “Ex Libris: Medical Bookplates from the Collection of Dr. Bert Davidson”. 

For a limited time the library will be displaying a number of medically themed bookplates alongside an electronic exhibit on the library’s digitized collections page. Be sure to visit our digitized collections where you can study the bookplates more closely, check out old yearbooks, read about the history of WesternU in our newspaper clippings collection, or access old course catalogs.

Our other digitized collections can be access at: http://cdm15885.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ or through the library website.

If you have any questions about the collection please contact the University Archives at 909-469-8489.

"And There's the Humor of It": Shakespeare and the Four Humors Exhibit

Examine the intersection of medical theory and literature with the National Library of Medicine's traveling exhibition currently in the Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library. 

These four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm—were understood by Shakespeare, and generations before him, to define people’s physical and mental health, and to determine an individual’s personality, as well. 

Visit the Pumerantz Library to see this exhibit to learn more about the language of the four humors and their influence in Shakespeare’s plays.  Additional displays, created by the Pumerantz Library staff, show the evolution toward modern medical theory and practice.   

The exhibit will run, in the Pumerantz Library's Lobby, from August 4 until September 12, 2014.  View some photos of the exhibit on our Flickr page. For further information contact the Pumerantz Library at 909-469-5323 or visit the "And there's the humor of it" website.

Harry Potter's World Family Day @ the Pumerantz Library

Share the magic with the family! On Saturday,  March 29, 2014 from 1pm to 4 pm the Pumerantz Library staff will be celebrating Harry Potter's world with a special family fun day.

On this one day the family of WesternU faculty, students and staff are invited to; decorate a wand, discover medicinal plants, create an origami snitch and more.
We will also have as a special guest Boo, a barn owl, from Wild Wings of California.

For more information on the Family Fun Day or the Harry Potter's World Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine exhibit please contact the Pumerantz Library toll free at 1-888-704-16601-888-704-1660. Harry Potter's World exhibit is brought provided by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health - Curated by Elizabeth J. Bland.

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Coming Soon - Harry Potter's World Exhibit

Coming soon! Harry Potter's World Exhibit

From March 10^th to April 19^th the Harriet K. and Philip Pumerantz Library will be hosting “Harry Potter’sWorld: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine.”

Come see this exhibit, on loan from the National Library of Medicine, featuring notable figures from the Renaissance period and learn how their Magic became Science!

Additionally the exhibit will feature information as to how Renaissance medicine has transformed throughout the ages to influence our current practices.

Life & Limb - The Toll of the American Civil War

The perspectives of surgeons, physicians, and nurses are richly documented in the history of Civil War medicine, which highlights the heroism and brutality of battlefield operations and the challenges of caring for the wounded during wartime. Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War focuses on battlefield injuries and life-saving but extreme surgeries, which left hundreds of thousands with permanent disabilities, their missing limbs a silent reminder of the conflict that split a nation.

From April 15 - July 31, 2013, The Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library will be hosting a traveling exhibition created by the National Library of Medicine. Come join us for the Opening Reception of Life and Limb: The Tool of the Civil War on April 15, 2013 from  2:00 – 4:00 pm. For more information please call (909)469-5323 or email circ@westernu.edu.

Paleo CSI Speaker Series

Stop by the Pumerantz Library on March 21, 2013 to hear Dr. Brian Kraatz talk about prehistoric mammalian fossils of Asia and Arabia.

Refreshments will be served at 5 pm and the lecture will begin at 5:30.

For more information call 909-469-5323.

Paleo CSI - Family Fun Day

On Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 you are invited to bring your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews to Family Fun Day at the Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library. 

Come join us in celebrating WesternU’s paleontologists and enjoy the Paleo CSI Exhibit. Activities for children and cookies will be offered from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information please call 909-469-5323.

Paleo CSI Exhibit

The Pumerantz Library is hosting an exhibit titled “Paleo CSI” which is scheduled to open October 25, 2012.  The exhibit focuses on the research by paleontologists on the Western U faculty: Dr. Elizabeth Rega, Dr. Brian Kraatz, Dr. Amy Chew, Dr. Matthew Wedel and Dr. Gerald Bales.  

Items on display include a black bear and coyote skull, tools used by paleontologists, and a 68-65 million year old triceratops fossil that you can touch! You are invited to view the exhibit anytime during library hours and attend our upcoming speaker series. Dates will be announced at a later time.

“Women of Western U” Exhibit and Reception April 9th, 2012

The Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library would like to invite you to join us for a reception Monday, April 9, 2012 from 1:00pm-3:00pm as we celebrate the Women of Western U, a first in a series.  

Faculty, staff and students are invited to this event to see the exhibit and enjoy our guest speakers. Light refreshments and snacks will be served.  The exhibit will be available for viewing through the summer.  

For more information please contact the library at 909-469-5323.  

Exhibit and Reception @ Pumerantz Library
1 pm to 3 pm
April 9, 2012

New Library Exhibits

The two new exhibits featured at the Pumerantz Library are "Black History Month" and "Chocolate: Food of the Gods". Both exhibits occupy the walls and display cases located on the first floor of the library.

The Pumerantz Library continually updates its exhibits throughout the year, please stop by and take a look.

From the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

The NLM is making a significant contribution to World Veterinary Year. At the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Reading Room in Bethesda, MD they will be hosting a new exhibit titled "From Craft to Profession: The Transition from Horse Farrier to Professional Veterinarian".

This exhibit will feature illustrated manuscripts and books from their historical collection. The exhibit runs from July 11, through Friday, October 7. For more information please visit the exhibit's site.

World Veterinarian Year - Library Exhibit

In our continuing effort to celebrate World Veterinarian Year the library has recently expanded our exhibits. In May we showcased the rinderpest eradication program and in June we will present a display on the only veterinarian to win the Nobel Prize, Peter Doherty, DVM.

Included in the exhibit is a veterinarian timeline, a display on the local dairy industry, and the formation of Western Univ. College of Veterinary Medicine.

The focal point is Titus a hand drawn copy of an anatomical model of a horse.

Stop by the Pumerantz Library frequently to see what has been added to the exhibit.

Rinderpest Eradication - World Veterinarian Year

The library's May exhibit, the first rotating display, will feature the Rinderpest and its eradication. The eradication was declared April 14, 2011 in the Republic of Mali, and then on various dates in other countries. This is the first disease ever declared completely eradicated in the history of the Food and Agricultural Organization’s (FAO) history.

Rinderpest is a panzoonotic disease that has regularly devastated buffalo and cattle herds in Asia and Europe and has occasionally caused havoc in North Africa. For information on the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme and the disease itself please visit the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Animal Production and Health Division website.

2011 is World Veterinary Year

This is the year that veterinarians around the world are called upon to promote their profession and educate the community on what veterinarians do and can do not only for our animal friends but for mankind as a whole. Veterinarians have been treating animal and and by extension humankind for over 250 years, from the original “horse doctors” to the modern day small animal cardiologists; the veterinary field has grown and specialized.

Locally the Pumerantz Library is teaming up with Western University’s College of Veterinary Medicine to provide displays on the history of not only the field of veterinary medicine in general but also the College, faculty and deans. The Library will have one featured display showcasing the history of veterinary medicine as wells as the history of WesternU’s College of Veterinary Medicine. We will also have smaller display that will feature a different rotating topic.

To stay current with World Veterinary Year events at the library watch this blog, check out our Facebook page or stop by the Pumerantz Library often to see what’s currently being featured. For more information on the World Veterinary Year organization please visit the Vet 2011 site.