Kennedy Institute of Ethics Publications and Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: BRL-025
The collection publications and ephemera related to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its library, dating from 1971 to the 2010s. These include newsletters, promotional materials, and clippings. It includes a number of publications produced by the Bioethics Research Library, including Scope Notes (primers on bioethical topics), bioethics bibliographies, bioethics thesauruses, database guides, and lists of holdings.
The KIE Newsletters include messages from the Institute's Directors, essays on bioethics, and information on the Institute's programs, scholars, and library.
Digitized copies of some publications are available online. These include Bioethics Research Library publications and KIE Newletters.
Materials are open without restrictions.
Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials being used, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for intended use.
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics was established in 1971 at Georgetown University as one of the first bioethics research centers in the world. It library was formally established in 1973. From 1985 to 2009 it was funded by the National Library of Medicine and was known as the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
1.5 Cubic Feet (in 4 boxes)
English
The collection publications and ephemera related to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its library, dating from 1971 to the 2010s. These include newsletters, promotional materials, and clippings. It includes a number of publications produced by the Bioethics Research Library, including Scope Notes (primers on bioethical topics), bioethics bibliographies, bioethics thesauruses, database guides, and lists of holdings.
The KIE Newsletters include messages from the Institute's Directors, essays on bioethics, and information on the Institute's programs, scholars, and library.
The collection was assembled by Bioethics Research Library staff.
The collection has been rehoused in archival-quality folders.
Part of the Bioethics Research Library Archives Repository