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McGoogan Library at Kearney now open

Library storage room. Clear glass windows. Behind glass wall are models like skulls, brains and skeletons.
Wiggton Heritage Center pull up banners, doors to library offices and model storage room.
Six pull up banners with texts describing each UNMC College.

With the start of the spring 2026 semester, Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library opened a new location in Health Science Education Center II at the Douglas A. Christensen Rural Health Education Complex in Kearney.  

McGoogan Library at Kearney is located on the second floor of HSEC II in rooms 202 and 204, and is staffed 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and by appointment on Monday and Friday. 

Education and Research Services Librarian Rachelle McPhillips serves the UNMC Kearney campus and provides curriculum-based instruction, assistance with library resources, research support, and outreach to students, faculty, staff, and UNMC-affiliated partners. The library offers a collection of anatomical models that are available by request. A collection of print books supporting the curriculum will be added later in spring 2026. To make an appointment or for assistance reserving items in the library’s collection, contact Rachelle at rmcphillips@unmc.edu. 

A Poisoned Practice: The Holocaust, Medical Complicity, and the American Response

Faded image of two men in front of building columns. Man on left in black suite, man on right in white suite.
Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport at the Eugenics Record Office, c. 1910 
Courtesy of Truman State University 

Written by: Darby Kurtz

Health care providers are expected to follow the code of “do no harm.” During World War II, the medical community was faced with what happens when those who are trained to heal are weaponized on a massive scale to go against that code.

While doctors under the Nazi regime committed atrocities, the American medical community, like much of the United States, remained mostly silent due to a multitude of factors. A Poisoned Practice explores those factors through the lens of the American eugenics movement and in the news available to the Omaha medical community about the Holocaust during World War II. The exhibit also touches on the medical ethics implications of the Holocaust with the creation of the Nuremberg Code.

A Poisoned Practice is presented in partnership with the Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska at Kearney as a part of a grant funded traveling exhibition program from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the American Library Association.

Find this exhibit on Level 8, McGoogan Library, Wittson Hall or online.

Now on display through June 15th, 2026.

ALL CLEAR – McGoogan Library

UNMC Alert: 

Earlier today, UNMC received an emailed threat of a potential explosive device in McGoogan Health Sciences Library.  

The library was evacuated while the University of Nebraska Police and Public Safety Department (UNPPSD) and the Omaha Police Department (OPD) searched the building.  

The building was deemed safe at approximately 1:50 P.M.  Normal operations at library will resume today at 3 P.M.  

Schools and businesses across the country received similar threats today.

We want to express thanks to students, faculty, and staff for their cooperation and first responders for their quick response.

UNMC ALERT: Library Evacuation

UNMC Alert:

McGoogan Library was evacuated due to a potential threat and is closed until 3PM due to law enforcement activity. Please avoid the area.

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