Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Diane McKenzie Hospital Postcard Collection #70044, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Many items in this collection have been digitized as part of the Diane McKenzie Hospital Postcard digital collection.

Acquisitions Information

Original collection assembled by Diane McKenzie during her career as a medical librarian, and presented to the Health Sciences Library upon her retirement in 2007. Additional postcards donated by Diane McKenzie (Acc. 2011001, 2011002, 2012003, 2012008, 2012009, 2013003, 2013008, 2013009, 2013010, 2014012, 2014013, 2014014, 2014016, 2015002, 2016002, 2016004, 2017007, 2018002, 2018003), Carol G. Jenkins and Brent Jenkins (Acc. 20xx001, 2012004, 2012005, 2012006, 2013011, 2015007, 2016005), Connie Schardt (2015008, 2016001, 2017001, 2017005, 2018001, 2019001), Lynn Eades (Acc. 2012007, 2015006), Barbara Tysinger (Acc. 2012007, 2014018), and Ruth Holst (Acc. 2016003).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Jennifer Louya and Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2018

Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, February 2020

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Academic medical centers--Pictorial works.
• Health facilities--Pictorial works.
• Hospitals--Pictorial works.
• McKenzie, Diane, 1943-
• Pictoral works.
• Postcards.

Diane McKenzie, a white medical librarian, worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library from 1987 until her retirement in 2007. She was named Medical Library Association Fellow in 2008, and honor awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the health sciences librarianship profession.

This collection contains postcards and advertising cards, chiefly portraying hospitals and health care facilities in the United States, but including cards from other countries, or cards about medicine or health related topics. The original collection was assembled by Diane McKenzie during her career as a medical librarian, and presented to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library upon her retirement in 2007. Other medical librarians have added to the collection since that time.