A cross-referencing feature allows verification of author names. Another addition is Film Index International, produced by the British Film Institute. This database covers some 90,000 films and 30,000 persons from 1930 to the present. It includes cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles. Search guides for all of the CD-Rom databases are available beside each workstation.
Many databases also provide online help screens.
These include numerous works in Italian or by Italians on psychiatry, magic and demonology, and general medicine. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Italian writers represented include Giorgio Baglivi, Vincenzo Chiarugi, Scipione Maffei, Giambattista Morgagni, Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Gioseffo Maria Platina, and Antonio Sementini. The donation also contains writings of nineteenth-century superintendents of mental hospitals and many works of the influential Italian school of criminal anthropology led by Cesare Lombroso. Born in Italy, Dr. Mora received his early medical training in Genoa, Zurich, Paris, London, and Boston. His interest in medical history brought him to the Historical Library to use its fine collections.