Thursday, April 23, 2009
New USSTC Videos and More Bliley Docs for LTDL
114 U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) videos are now part of the LTDL Multimedia Collection.
USSTC is a leading manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products including Skoal and Copenhagen. The 114 new videos are from 1970-1980s and include numerous commercials featuring Charlie Daniels – country and southern rock musician, Carlton Fisk – baseball hall of famer, and Shep Messing – soccer goalkeeper. USSTC was an active sponsor of American football players, NASCAR, the Skoal Bandit team, Winston Cup winner Harry Gant and the yearly Copenhagen-Skoal Rodeo Superstars Championship.
To find these videos on LTDL, search the Multimedia collection for “origcn: us smokeless tobacco". If a particular video is available for immediate viewing on Internet Archive, the record will link to the video under "Access Now at Internet Archive"
Highlights from this collection can also be seen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ltdlmultimedia. These clips have proven very popular with more than 1,500 viewings since February 25, 2009.
New Documents added from the TDO site:
- American Tobacco - 76 documents, 2275 pages
- Bliley Brown & Williamson - 46 documents, 1947 pages
- Bliley Lorillard - 3 documents, 106 pages
- Bliley Philip Morris - 37 documents, 447 pages
- Bliley RJ Reynolds - 7644 documents, 33379 pages
- Philip Morris - 1 document, 56 pages
- RJ Reynolds - 13 documents, 452 pages
Total number of documents added (including USSTC videos) = 8,749
To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090423>
**As of Thursday, April 23, 2009, LTDL contains 52,370,115 pages in 10,057,259 documents.
**Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF
Applications for Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research at UCSF are due May 6, 2009, for fellowships beginning July 1, 2009.The purpose of the fellowship is to attract individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds in medical, biological, social, behavioral, and policy sciences to develop a new generation of academic leaders in tobacco control. Upon completion of training, fellows will be well positioned to be active participants in crucial policy debates about the future development and implementation of tobacco control interventions.
The fellowship supports two years of postdoctoral training in tobacco related research. Postdoctoral fellows will have exposure to diverse training including both didactic coursework and individualized mentoring to build a personalized research program. Fellows have come from an array of disciplines, including medicine, public health, nursing, economics, political science, law, sociology, psychology, and cell biology.
We offer individual mentorship with UCSF faculty along with courses in tobacco specific topics, health policy, cancer control and prevention, grant and scientific writing skills, career development, interdisciplinary research, and biostatistics.
Postdoctoral trainees will receive an annual salary commensurate with their experience, approximately $37,000-$51,000, according to the NIH stipend scale. Applicants may learn more about the Center, the fellowship program, and review the list of UCSF faculty and their research interests at the CTCRC website,
tobacco.ucsf.edu.
Please direct requests for information and applications to:
Fellowship Assistant
Phone: 415-476-0140
Fax: 415-514-9345
Tobacco(dot)fellowship(at)ucsf.edu
Thursday, April 02, 2009
15,000+ New Documents Added to LTDL
We've been hard at work adding new tobacco industry documents to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library!
These additions include documents pulled down from the industry sites; "Bliley" and industry documents from Tobacco Documents Online (TDO); BAT documents from the Guildford Depository; and over 2000 Philip Morris Engineering Department documents that had previously been in storage on microfilm.
The breakdown of additions is as follows:
- Brown & Williamson - 691 documents; 7315 pages
- British American Tobacco - 12,443 documents; 31,205 pages
- Philip Morris microfilm - 2004 documents; 92,576 pages
- RJ Reynolds - 75 documents; 71,004 pages
- Tobacco Institute - 131 documents; 426 pages
Total: 15,344 documents; 202,526 pages
To find these newly added documents, search on the date they were posted to LTDL - <ddu:20090402>
**As of Thursday, April 2, 2009, LTDL contains 52,327,409 pages in 10,056,289 documents.**
Many thanks to TDO for sharing documents with us and allowing us to work towards completing our holdings in certain collections and special collections!Monday, March 30, 2009
Video Short of Students Searching LTDL
Tar Wars 4 - An Epic AdventureJames Valastro, of
memeFILMS, an organization dedicated to youth and media-literacy, has created another great short video project combining the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and a team of students at Woodstock Middle School in Vermont.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4800165632310496231In this 6 minute comedy, Woodstock students search for and discover tobacco industry documents outlining product placement tactics and marketing to youth. When the tobacco industry discovers the teens are conducting these searches, the battle begins and the light sabers come out!
Thursday, March 05, 2009
838 New Documents Posted to LTDL
The following new documents were added to the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library today, March 5, 2009:
- R.J. Reynolds: 71 documents, 191,456 pages (very large documents)
- Philip Morris: 478 documents, 5,482 pages (from Leslie Grisham v. Philip Morris Incorporated, et al.)
- Multimedia: 290 resources from RJ Reynolds
Total: 838 documents, 197,263 pages.
To find these new documents, conduct a search on the date they were added to LTDL (in "yyyymmdd" format) =
ddu:20090305As of today, LTDL contains 52,124,883 pages in 10,040,945 documents.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Register for the Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop
Annual Tobacco Documents Workshop: Putting the Tobacco Industry's Words to Work for YouThe University of California, San Francisco
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, announces its one-day workshop on using tobacco industry documents for advocacy.
The workshop will cover:
- introduction to tobacco industry documents databases, including the multimedia database
- hands-on practice searching and extracting key industry documents under the supervision of expert documents researchers
- examples of ways in which the documents can be of use to promote tobacco-free communities
- opportunities to network and brainstorm with top documents researchers and other advocates.
Place: UCSF Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 10:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cost: $25 registration fee to reserve your place, refundable upon completion of the workshop.
For more information and to register for the workshop, please contact:
Jenni Alexander, Jenni.Alexander@ucsf.edu or 415 502 6341.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
New Formats for the Tobacco Documents Bibliography
The new and improved
UCSF Library website is up and running! Stop by and take a look at the new
Tobacco Control Archives section and let us know what you think.
In addition to a new and streamlined format, we now have 2 ways for users to view the ever-growing Tobacco Documents Bibliography:
1) The
Tobacco Documents Bibliography page on the UCSF Library Web Site now has a section titled "Newly Added" - this eliminates the need for scrolling through the bibliography to find recent additions.
2) The Tobacco Documents Bibliography is now also available through RefShare - a feature of RefWorks which allows sharing of references online. Once in the bibliography database, users can export selected references, sort by a variety of fields, print references, create a bibliography of selected papers, and subscribe to an RSS feed of additions to the Tobacco Documents Bibliography - this means anytime we add new references you will automatically be notified and sent those citations (up to 20).
(You do not need to have a subscription to RefWorks to access this shared bibliography.) The bibliography on RefShare is at:
http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=044531177916400000/RWWS6A586201/TobaccoDocumentsBibliography
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