Valuable alcohol resource free to good home

Dr Alan Blum, co-founder, of Doctors Ought to Care (DOC), which focuses exclusively on counteracting the influence of the tobacco and alcohol industries, has written to us offering to donate his archive of alcohol-related resources.

The archive contains material and media coverage on alcohol marketing and problems and could be an ideal resource for exhibitions and monographs or a valuable addition to a library or museum. It includes more than three decades’ worth of print, marketing media, TV and trade journals and Dr Blum hopes that it can serve as an information resource to regional, national and international health organisations, as well as for researchers, journalists and students. Although it consists mostly of US alcohol advertising, Dr Blum considers that it has global significance.

Digital organisation of the resources could be a valuable project for student librarians or students interested in marketing and alcohol policy. The collection is estimated at 20 boxes plus additional material in climate-controlled storage.

If you are interested in finding out more please get in touch with Dr Blum at: The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, 26 Pinehurst Drive Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401 USA Email: ablum@cchs.ua.edu