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As part of its mandate, HSIMS (Health Sciences Information and Media Service, formerly called Medical Audio Visual Services [MAVS]) created many videocassettes for the Medical School after its formation and made them available as teaching aids, public awareness tools and medical learning resources for students, staff and faculty. They were written, produced, directed and designed by the staff of HSIMS and also involved students, staff and faculty from Memorial and affiliated teaching hospitals in the St. John’s area. They were retained in the HSIMS storage area in the Health Sciences Centre.

The videocassettes cover the many projects and subjects worked on by HSIMS during the years 1978-1991, including community activities, health education, outreach to youth, and many other topics dealing with medicine and the provision of health care in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The plans provide a detailed look at the estimated and speculative development of Memorial University's new St. John's campus. They show proposed sites of buildings, parking lots, student residences, faculty living quarters, etc., all in relation to St. John's landmarks and locations. The Master Plan is at the back of the report: the text and drawings explain why the plan takes the form it does and shows how it may be transformed from a two-dimensional paper pattern to an actual place that once can inhabit and walk about. The sections examined in detail throughout the plans include: 1. The University and the City; 2. The Academic Brief; 3. The Topographical Study;4. The South Campus and the Junior Division; 5. The Building Pattern; 6. The Circulation System; 7. The Landscape Design; 8. The Schematic Master Plan; 9. The Main Block; 10. The Library; 11. Convocation Hall; 12. Physical Education; 13. University Theatre; 14. South Campus Link Block; 15. The Senior College; 16. Architectural Character.

Fonds consists of material relating to Cluny Macpherson and his own personal papers created during his work in the medical profession and his involvement with a variety of individuals and organizations in Newfoundland and abroad. Fonds is composed of the following series: 1. Miscellaneous material; 2. Correspondence; 3. Professional Activities; 4. Patient Records; 5. Publications relating to Cluny Macpherson; 6. Maps and Photographs.

The Dr. H. Bliss Murphy fonds contains 159 glass slides, which are arranged by subject in six series. The slides consist of individuals, families, landscapes, buildings, religious ceremonies and work in India, various microscopic images, anatomical diagrams taken from the Anatomy Department, London Hospital Medical Collection, physicians, including famous physicians such as Pasteur, Fleming, and Koch, diagrams of medical experiments, procedures, and microscopic images, as well as unrelated subjects such as biblical images, a human skull, a mummified corpse and a poem.

Fonds consists of the following series: 1.0 India (65 slides); 2.0 London Hospital Medical Collection (12 slides); 3.0 Physicians (11 slides); 4.0 Medical Diagrams (26 slides); 5.0 Microscopic Images (34 slides); 6.0 Miscellaneous (12 slides).

The fonds is composed of the following series: 1. Professional and Administrative Files, 1952-1997; 2. Committees and Councils, 1930-1994; 3. Retreats, Meetings, Seminars, Visits, etc., 1966-1998; 4. Briefs, Reports, Papers, etc., 1950-1988; 5. Hospitals, 1953-1991; 6. Discipline of Medicine Files, Grants and Studies, 1957-1987; 7. General Files, 1957-1998; 8. Universities, Colleges and Health Sciences Divisions, 1949-1998; 9. American College of Physicians, 1957-1998; 10. School of Nursing, 1972-1998; 11. School of Pharmacy, 1966-1991; 12. Vice President (Health Sciences and Professional Schools), 1969-1997; 13. Personal Material, 1948-1995; 14. Faculty Material, 1965-1975; 15. Research, 1957-1991; 16. Societies, Foundations and Associations, 1953-1999; 17. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1952-1986; 18. Tapes, Slides and Films, 1966-1986; 19. Photographs; 20. Publications.

Fonds consist of a videotape made during a gathering to celebrate the life of Jan Snellen. The introduction was given by a friend and past colleague in Physiology, Dr. Brian Payton, which was followed by addresses and tributes by friends, family, colleagues and former students who each shed light on the life and career of Dr. Jan Snellen and his involvement with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The fonds consists of material relating to Dr. Kenneth B. Roberts and his work while in the John Clinch Professor of Medical History position in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Also contains work on monographs, (published and unpublished) completed and organized by Dr. K.B. Roberts. Fonds is composed of the following series: 1. Correspondence; 2. History of Medicine Material; 3. Newspaper Articles; 4. Slides and Photographs; 5. Materials relating to Caring for the Sick in Newfoundland - unpublished collection of essays edited by Dr. Roberts.

The photograph contains names of 46 delegates who attended the 1926 Annual Meeting of the Newfoundland Medical Association.
Dr. Whelan’s papers cover the time he was president of the NMA (1968-1969) and consist of minutes of the various committees of the NMA, correspondence, annual reports and proceedings of an open meeting of a planning conference for the Health Sciences Centre (1966). Pertinent issues in Dr. Whelan’s time as NMA president include: planning for the medical school, introduction of Medicare (MCP), and inefficiencies in outpatient care.

The fonds is arranged in the following series:

1. Photograph, 1926
2. NMA Minutes
   2.1. Medical Advisory Committee, February 1968 - January 1970
   2.2. Miscellaneous Minutes, November 1968-September 1969
   2.3. NMA Executive Minutes, 11 February, 1969-21 March 1970
   2.4. Excerpts from Exec minutes concerning specialists 1962-1969
3. Newfoundland Medical Directory, 1969
4. Planning Conference for a Health Sciences Centre, MUN Sept 1,2,3, 1966. Proceedings of an open meeting, Sept 3, 1966
5. NMA AGM Minutes and Reports
   5.1. NMA Minutes and Reports AGM 1969
   5.2. NMA Minutes and Reports AGM 1970
6. Correspondence June 1968 - March 1970
7. By-Laws of the Medical Staff of the Salvation Army - Grace Hospital. St. John’s, Nfld. February 1966

The collection includes Newfoundland Medical Board Directories (1915-2006) and Registers of licenses issued by the Newfoundland Medical Board (1894-1982). Newfoundland Medical Board Directories are an annual publication providing a complete list of medical practitioners resident in Newfoundland who are registered and licensed. Their professional address, and the date and location of their alma mater are given. The registers of licenses issued to medical practitioners usually indicate the doctor’s name, the date they were given the license, their address, the license number, and their alma mater. A menu from the Newfoundland Medical Association’s annual dinner (1955) is also in the collection.

Fonds contains past papers of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for various subjects including anaesthesia, anatomical pathology, cardiology, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, clinical immunology, dermatology, etc. Not all dates are available for each paper, either because they were not distributed by the RCPSC or because the library did not retain a copy. Fonds consists of the following series:

1.0 Examination papers (1959-1999)