New Zoological Health Finding Aid

This post is contributed by Sarah Breen, Library Associate, Special Collections Research Center.

Baby sloth

A new finding aid for the Mitchell Bush Papers (/findingaids/mc00467 ) on veterinary medicine has recently been released. Dr. Mitchell Bush is a leader in the field of modern zoological medicine. He began his career working for the National Zoological Park at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1972. Beginning in 1994 he served as the Chief of Veterinary Services at the Smithsonian Conservation and Research Center. He holds a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and is a visiting scientist at Kruger National Park in South Africa. He graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis in 1965.

This collection contains research and teaching notes, presentations and materials, journals and publications, correspondence, field studies, field notes, research projects, training materials, anesthesia records, digital media such as floppy disks, CD-ROMS and zip disks and film strips, videotapes and 35mm slides documenting medical studies, surgeries and wildlife in national and international settings.

This collection spanning Dr. Bush's as a pioneer of clinical practice and comparative medicine in zoological settings serves as a valuable resource to the veterinary medicine community.
The finding aid to the collection can be viewed here (/findingaids/mc00467 ). If you have any questions, please contact the Special Collections Research Center(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scrc/request ).