This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":1008,"date":"2008-12-05T13:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2008-12-05T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:33:12","slug":"wpic-library-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wpic-library-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"WPIC Library to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/files\/2008\/11\/wpic2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"63\" \/>The Library of Western Psychiatric Institute &amp; Clinic (WPIC) will close permanently on Friday, December 19, 2008.\u00a0 In the future, reference consultation and educational services will be available to the WPIC community through Falk Library.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for disposition of the print collection are incomplete.\u00a0 January-March 2009 will be a transitional period, during which the books, videos and bound journals will be sorted and packed.\u00a0 Some materials will be moved to Falk Library, while others will be sent to the HSLS remote storage facility.\u00a0 See the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=990\">\u201cObtaining Materials from the WPIC Print Collection\u201d<\/a> for instructions on how to request print materials during this period.<\/p>\n<p>Since its beginning in 1942, WPIC Library has become one of the world&#8217;s most comprehensive collections in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences.\u00a0 An online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/wpic\/timeline\/index.html\">timeline<\/a> describes the growth and activities of the Library.<\/p>\n<p>~ Barbara Epstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Western Psychiatric Institute &amp; Clinic (WPIC) will close permanently on Friday, December 19, 2008.\u00a0 In the future, reference consultation and educational services will be available to the WPIC community through Falk Library. Plans for disposition of the print collection are incomplete.\u00a0 January-March 2009 will be a transitional period, during which the books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2008","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}