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The OHSU Library is pleased to announce that Kristina DeShazo joined the Library staff as the new Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian on March 11, 2002. Kristina has an MLS from Emporia State University and 17 years of experience in a corporate library and market research group at Intel Corporation. Kristina's diverse background includes selection and purchase of serials in electronic and print formats, considerable work with vendors, extensive experience in project management and reference. Kristi will be maintaining the electronic journals Web page and have a major role in Library's e-journal customer support efforts. Her office will be in Library Administration and she can be contacted by phone at (503) 494-1637 or by e-mail at deshazok@ohsu.edu.
Medical illustrations by Clarice Ashworth Francone will be placed
on display for the first time beginning in early February in the
Library. The Francone Collection, processed by the Library's Special
Collections' staff, was donated to the Library by the Francone
Estate.
Clarice Ashworth Francone was a medical illustrator at the University
of Oregon Medical School from 1929 until her retirement in 1969.
In 1936, after only 7 years at UOMS, she was appointed Head of
the Medical Illustration Department. For many years she was the
only medical illustrator in Oregon.
Ms. Francone was born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1901. After graduating
from high school, Ms. Francone worked at the Mayo Clinic Art Department,
studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and spent her second
year of medical illustration study at Johns Hopkins University,
training under Max Broedel, considered the father of medical illustration.
Much of Francone's stunning work consists of halftones done with
carbon crayon on Ross board, with ink and white highlights added
to sharpen images.
Francone illustrated a number of textbooks. The best known is
the anatomy and physiology textbook, Structure and Function of
Man, which she co-authored with OHSU's Stanley Jacob, M.D. Before
retiring from the Medical School in 1969, Francone was asked to
donate samples of her work to the Archives of Medical Visual Resources
to the Countway Library, Harvard University. Ms. Francone died
in 1981.
The exhibit was prepared by Jerry Fulkerson, OHSU Library staff
member and graphic designer.
Carrie Willman
Information also at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/new.shtml