Falk Library Pictures

2009

This shot of the library’s main floor shows how much a space can change in ten years. Falk Library has since added more study seats in place of the book stacks you see here, but books and journals are still accessible via HSLS Document Delivery.

2009

These books were new to our collection in 2009, but some contents – like those found in Current Cancer Therapeutics – are likely now outdated.

2009

Before the space was needed for other health science offices, the fish bowl was a popular study space in Falk Library. It even boasted some natural light, a feature that will return once the Scaife Hall West Wing construction project is complete.

December 2009

PalPittations, an a cappella group for students in the schools of the health sciences, performs their annual holiday concert at HSLS. Watch some of their more recent performances on the HSLS YouTube page.

2010

During the transition between physical documents and digitized media, scanners were very popular at Falk Library. This photo shows four, including a Cobra Scanner that scanned x-ray images; today the library houses two document scanners.

2011

Students study at Dell desktops running Windows 7.

March 2011

At the beginning of 2011, several hundred visitors toured the wildly popular traveling exhibit Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine. When the exhibit left Falk Library at the end of March, Professor Dumbledore was raffled off to Christina Jolley of the School of Nursing (right). Read more about the exhibit and events here, and check out our current exhibit at hsls.pitt.edu/exhibit.

2011

From November 2009 to July 2019, HSLS hosted the intensive 2.5 day course called “Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians.” Offered three times a year, the workshop drew participants from across the U.S. and Canada, and instructed more than 700 librarians during its run.