Thursday, January 17, 2008
Multimedia Collection podcast
We are pleased to announce a new podcast that provides an opportunity to view and listen to a selection of historically significant tobacco industry audio and video clips from the LTDL Multimedia Collection. This podcast is an introduction to the vast collection containing recordings of focus groups, internal corporate meetings, depositions of tobacco industry employees, government hearings, corporate communications, and commercials housed in UCSF and can be easily used in the classroom. Viewers can enjoy the podcast in its entirety (40 min) or watch three individual segments.
This public podcast is available to viewers and listeners all over the world and can be accessed from
Podcasts@UCSFWednesday, January 09, 2008
New Documents Added!
We have rolled out another update of
LTDL that includes many new industry documents as well as a new "User Preferences" feature.
Document Additions:- 135,000+ Philip Morris documents
- 356
RJ Reynolds documents (259 from 2006 and 2007)
- 7900 Tobacco Institute documents from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Total added: 444,296 pages in 143,878 documents!
New Features:User Preferences -
We have added a User Preferences feature to allow you to set display preferences for an entire session. These settings include: Long or short display, sort order, and the number of results per page. User preferences will apply to searches done in basic, advanced and expert search modes and will remain for the entire session or until you change the preferences. The User Preferences page can be found under the
"PREFS" tab in the Search section.
Help Pages Have Moved -
In order to accommodate the new User Preferences feature and to consolidate all of our Help screens into one area, we have moved the Search Help pages. FAQs and the Search Help pages are now accessible from the top level
Help button next to "About the Library"
Please let us know how these features are working for you. As always, we appreciate any comments and feedback!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
CTCRE Symposium in February
Mark your calendars!
The
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) at UCSF is pleased to host the symposium and poster session:
It’s About a Billion Lives:
Advances in Tobacco Control
Celebrating Five Years of Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 8:00A - 12:00P
505 Parnassus Ave., UCSF, Health Sciences West, Room 303
Presentations include:
Social and Economic Determinants of Smoking in Rich and Poor Countries: Evidence for Reverse Health Disparities?
Elmer E. Huerta, MD, MPH
President, American Cancer Society and Director, Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center
Unselling Smokes: Reversing Tobacco Marketing Strategies
Pamela M. Ling, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Industry Efforts to Undermine the World Bank and WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
The symposium will also have a poster session featuring work that is not included in the oral presentations.
For information or to present a poster, contact Jenni Alexander at 415-502-6341 or jenni.alexander(at)ucsf.edu.
Monday, December 10, 2007
"Smoke this Book"
Paul Collins wrote a fascinating essay for the December 2nd issue of the New York Times Sunday Book Review which explores the 1970's practice of binding advertisements directly into the center of paperback books.
According to the author, "The bulk of paperback advertising came from tobacco companies, which were looking for new places to push their products after a federal ban on cigarette advertising on television and radio passed in 1969."
Collins used LTDL to follow the paper trail of who was behind this practice, how much money was involved in this type of marketing, and who reaped the benefits.
Read the full New York Times
essay.
For further information and a timeline of the original marketing studies, print run orders, and customer complaints (with links to LTDL documents), access Paul Collins' blog,
Weekend StubbleThursday, December 06, 2007
We've Reached 8 Million Documents!
We released a new version of LTDL today which contains document additions and new features. The following additions bring the total to 8,006,384 documents!
Document Additions
-103,494 new Philip Morris documents
-18,040 new Tobacco Institute documents provided by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). Please note some of the document dates in the metadata may be inaccurate.
-593 new DATTA transcripts
New FeaturesNext/previous Bates:Now, when you view a document's record (either from the pURL page or the search results), you will notice arrows before and after the document's bates number(s). Clicking on the arrows allows you to “page” to the previous or next Bates number in that collection.
For those already familiar with this feature in BATDA, this is useful for exploring the documents that surround a particular document or may have been attached at one time. Please note, Bates numbers are only valid within a collection - for instance, the very last bates number in the Philip Morris collection would not have a "next" bates.
E-mailing Bookbag:Users are now able to email their bookbag to more than one email address.
To do this, Enter 2 or more email addresses in the "To" field, separated by commas.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tobacco Advertising Exhibit at UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco’s Library and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education are hosting “Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry’s Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking.” This exhibit of historic cigarette advertising and promotional items was curated by Laurie Jackler and Robert Jackler and Robert Proctor, two Stanford University experts on the tobacco industry’s marketing of their disease-causing products.
The exhibit shows --principally through advertising images-- how, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies used deceptive and often patently false claims in an effort to reassure the public of the safety of their products. Images of physicians were frequently used to sell cigarettes: Doctors were depicted as satisfied and enthusiastic partakers of the smoking habit. Images of medical men (and a few token women) appeared under soothing reassurances of the safety of smoking. Liberal use was also made of pseudo-scientific medical reports and surveys.
The exhibit will run through February 29 at the UCSF Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue, Fifth Floor, San Francisco. The Library is open M-Th 7:45 AM – Midnight; Fri 7:45 AM - 8:00 PM; Sat 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM; and Sun 10:00 AM - Midnight
An online version of the exhibit can be seen at
http://tobacco.stanford.eduThursday, November 08, 2007
Documents Added, New Features and Fixes
An updated version of LTDL was released today containing new documents as well as some new features and fixes.
Additions to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection at Internet Archive: Twenty seven (27) tapes from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute collection, which contains videos from the Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research, have been uploaded to the UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos collection on Internet Archive (IA). These are available for immediate viewing or downloading. To find these available videos,
search LTDL for records that have “RPCI” in the “special collection” field and “IA” in the “access” field (Example -
speccoll:rpci access:IA)
The
UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos collection now contains more than 500 items. If you have questions or need additional information please contact Polina Ilieva, Project Archivist at (415) 476-1024 or by e-mail - polina.ilieva(at)library.ucsf.edu
Document Additions to LTDL:-219,906 new Philip Morris documents have been added to LTDL. The vast majority of these are from Barbara Schwab, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al.
-2164 RJ Reynolds documents have also been added.
New Popular Documents section: California's Tobacco PropositionsThe UCSF Library's Tobacco Control Archives previously contained a selected documents collection known as the "California Documents from the State of Minnesota Depository." This special collection has been has been modified and moved to the
Popular Documents section of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
A companion to "
Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles" by Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach, this research collection provides insight into industry plans to fight local smoking initiatives, weaken enforcement of and support for California's 1995 smoke-free workplace legislation, and undermine California's tobacco control program.
Dates are more "readable" in document records:While the date fields in each document are still in the YYYMMDD format, we have added an additional format of "Month Day, Year" (for example, October 15, 2000) for each date field where there is a full date available. We hope this will help users scan the results when looking for documents with specific dates.
Users are now able to exclude "file folders" from a search: This exclusion is done by default in the Basic and Advanced Search screens. In the Expert Search screen, users will now have a check box to "exclude folders". This exclusion only applies to documents that have "folder" or "tab" in the Document Type (dt:) field and are 1 page in length. If you want to include folders in your search, simply uncheck the box.
MSA Collection choice:In the collections box on the search screens, users could previously choose "all", to search all collections, or "none" to clear the boxes for individual selection. Users now have the option to choose “MSA” in all three search screens. This will select just the seven Master Settlement collections (PM, RJR, Lorillard, B&W, AT, TI and CTR).
As always, we value your input on these new features and fixes! Please contact us with any feedback, problems, or praises.
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