Jellinek on the Big Book
Since its first edition in 1939, the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous known as the “Big Book” has helped millions of men and women recover from alcoholism. It happened to … Read More
Alcohol History
The Book That Started It All
The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous One of the newest additions to the CAS Library’s collection is The Book That Started It All: … Read More
Dr. Selden Bacon’s Papers donated to CAS Library
The papers of Dr. Selden D. Bacon, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies from 1950 through 1975, were generously donated to the CAS Library by his son, Selden Bacon, … Read More
A First Edition of the AA “Big Book”
In the summer of 2013, we at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library took it upon ourselves to transform the conference room into an historical exhibit, displaying affiliated publications, classic … Read More
The Extraordinary Career of Dr. H. W. Haggard
E.M. Jellinek may have provided the disease concept of alcoholism with its manifesto, but Dr. H.W. Haggard conferred the medical credibility and institutional clout it needed to survive. Haggard was … Read More
Bunky @125
The Information Services Division is delighted to share a special issue of its newsletter to commemorate the 125th anniversary of E. M. Jellinek’s birth. Table of Contents Who remembers Jellinek? – … Read More
Jellineks’ World
Our Research In the spring of 2014, the Center of Alcohol Studies Library hosted the 36th annual conference of the Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS). On the final … Read More
Jellinek According to the World – Part 1
How did Jellinek’s contemporary colleagues regard him? Quotations from two edited volumes offer an insight: the first part is from the recorded proceedings of a conference dedicated to Jellinek’s memory; … Read More
Jellinek According to the World – Part 2
How did Jellinek’s contemporary colleagues regard him? Quotations from two edited volumes offer an insight: the first part is from the recorded proceedings of a conference dedicated to Jellinek’s memory; … Read More
Who Remembers Jellinek?
[This is the editorial of the Jellinek Special Anniversary issue of the CAS Information Services Newsletter, co-authored by Judit H. Ward and William Bejarano.] In 1982, Mark Keller, editor of … Read More