1980

• Books and Journals: 129,278
• Current Periodicals: 1,738
• Tuition: Virginia $3,065, Other $6,365
• Students: 551

• A computer system will improve record keeping in medical records.
• The average cost of a medical journal will increase 213% over the next ten years.
• Ralph Sampson leads the Cavaliers to victory in the NIT Tournament.

Medical School Class of 1980

Amy Richardson, 4th-year class president, signs the Match Day certificate

Dr. Norman Knorr, Dean of the School of Medicine

New bicycle racks on JPA near the Library

Dean of the School of Nursing, Rose Marie Chioni, becomes President of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Children’s Museum opens inside the main entrance of the Primary Care Center

After a two-year study, consultants recommend moving the Hospital to the Blue Ridge site

1981

• Books and Journals: 133,505
• Current Periodicals: 3,0404
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

Wilhelm Moll Rare Book Room

Entrance to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Library Books Stacks

UVa Primary Care Center

The Library’s LIS online catalog goes public

1982

• Books and Journals: 137,129
• Current Periodicals: 3,095
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

Medical School Class Officers, 1982

Medical students learn in all sorts of settings

Keeping up with the information explosion

“In order to put needed information within practical reach of our users in the Medical Center community, the Library must move as rapidly as possible to achieve fully automated and integrated library operations …today we function as an ‘information resource facility.’”

Surgical doll once belonging to Lomax Gwathmey, School of Medicine Class of 1889, donated to the Health Sciences Library

Walter Reed Collection is transferred to the Health Sciences Library, Historical Collections

1983

• Books and Journals: 134,000
• Current Periodicals: 1,700
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• Copy cards are introduced in the Library.
• A new Day Care Center opens under the direction of Mike Halseth at Blue Ridge Hospital.

Without a doubt, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library provides students with a variety of resources, both academic and social

The Spinal Chords Choral Group

University of Virginia Hospital named a Level I Trauma Center

New pagers come into use

The Moll Room, circa 1983

Medical students take part in Easters celebrations

A mud fest during Easters celebrations

1984

• Books and Journals: 139,970
• Current Periodicals: 3,275
• Tuition: Virginia $4,870, Other $9,690
• Number of Students: 556

• Children’s Medical Center becomes a reality.
• Child Care Center opens at Blue Ridge Hospital.
• Blue Ridge Hospital offers eating disorder program.
• Uva’s first bone marrow transplant.
• Program for minority students launched.
• Hospital’s new snack bar named Skylight Inn.

Maurice Apprey, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Dr. Lewis Barnett, pioneer in family medicine at UVa

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new replacement hospital

The Pegasus helicopter becomes the latest transportation for the Emergency Medicine Department at UVa

Terry Holland on the basketball court

Bob Hope helps raise funds for the Children’s Rehabilitation Center

Joan Echtenkamp and some empty shelves in Historical Collections

Clinical trails of lithotripter begin

UVa Medical Center is the only site in Virginia with an MRI device

Dr. William H. Muller

1985

• Books and Journals: 140,403
• Current Periodicals: 3,345
• Tuition: Virginia $5,110, Other $10,310
• Number of Students: 556

• Virginia Ambulatory Service Center opens in May.
• Dr. William Osler’s chair given to the Medical School.
• Headache Clinic for children opens.
• Students treat skiing injuries at Wintergreen.

Marjorie A. Rein, Medical Educator

Students enjoying their 4th year

Maurice Apprey, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Health Sciences Library, circa 1985

The Spinal Chords Choral Group

The unfinished Library basement ready for improvement

Anne Thomas, Student Affairs Office

Robert M. O’Neil assumes the presidency of the University

1986

• Books and Journals: 142,528
• Current Periodicals: 3,360
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• Medical ethics added to the Medical School curriculum.
• The School of Nursing opens a research program.
• UVa receives $1 million grant to finance a minority program in the Medical School.

Stuck in the Stacks as the Library moves into the Computer Age

The new UVa Hospital nears completion

The new Dean, Robert M. Carey, shares his dream for the School of Medicine:
“To improve the health of all people. To manifest human compasssion. To search for the truth.”

A familiar sight in the Health Sciences Library

The Spermatic Chords, an a capella chorus formed by the women of the School of Medicine Class of 1986

1987

• Books and Journals: 147,984
• Current Periodicals :3,482
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• The Library’s LIS sytem to offer electronic access to the catalog.
• 30 years of TLC at the CRC, as the Center is renamed for the Kluge family.
• The Nursing Research Center opens.
• Jean Sorrell-Jones named Director of the Division of Nursing at the UVa Medical Center.

Consulting a reference work in the Library

What bone is this connected to?

Study time in the Library

Pegasus takes to the sky

Time out in the Library

Construction of the new UVa Hospital

1988

• Books and Journals: 152,535
• Current Periodicals: 2,837
• Tuition: n/a
• Number of Students: n/a

• The Medical Cener is officially renamed the UVa Health Sciences Center.
• The UVa Blue Ridge Hospital’s TB Unit closes after 65 years of service.
• The Adult Rehab Unit moves to the Blue Ridge Hospital.
• The University of Virginia Health System discourages smoking on its premises.

The Pegasus Air Ambulance

Rose Marie Chioni resigns as Dean of the School of Nursing after 14 years

The Link took eight months to construct; it is 680 feet long, 17 feet wide, and is covered by 28 tons of copper

Hospital expansion granted final approval

The Blue Ridge Hospital’s TB Unit closes after 65 years of service

The new DxTER system simulates real patient care

1989

• Books and Journals: 148,000
• Current Periodicals: 2,800
• Tuition: Virginia $6,440, Other $13,320
• Number of Students: 556

• The In-Hospital Hospice opens.
• James Craig reires as Associate Dean of Student Affairs.
• Terry A. Thorkildson, Director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library resigns.
• The Library offers computer services that allow patrons to check other UVa libraries and outside databases.
• Phase II of the $2.5 million addition to the Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center is finished.
• UVa is one of ten centers in the U.S. to use the Dornier lithotripter in clinical trials for gallstone lithotripsy.

First UVa patient being treated with the gamma knife

“Harvey,” a computer-operated dummy used for simulating patient care

Jeanette Lancaster named Dean of the School of Nursing

More than 7,500 hours was spent preparing for the opening of the new University Hospital

A presentation in the History of the Health Sciences Library Lecture Series

Patients move across the Link to the new University Hospital

UVa President Robert M. O'Neil announces resignation

Richard D. Pearson becomes Associate Dean of Student Affairs