The Heritage Room is named in honour of Dr. Margaret Elder Hart, B.Sc., M.A., Ed.D., LL.D., Director of the University of Manitoba School of Nursing, 1948-1972. The Dr. Margaret Elder Hart Heritage Room bears her name in recognition of her contribution to nursing education and her lifelong interest in nursing history.

The Heritage Room is managed in accordance with the following Goals and Guidelines:

Goals:

• To locate, collect and preserve archival resources related to the history of nursing education in Manitoba.
• To re-direct resources, when possible, to appropriate existing collections.
• To serve as an information centre for archival resources related to the history of nursing located in other
  collections.
• To collaborate with the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of Manitoba in the
  cataloguing, storage and access of materials collected by the Heritage Room.
• To make these archival resources available for scholarly research.

Guidelines for Acquisition:

• Materials will be collected, based on:
  • historical significance
  • unique contributions to the body of knowledge on nursing education in Manitoba
  • acrhival materials related to other aspects of nursing may be collected to ensure their preservation.
• The Heritage Room welcomes:
  • unpublished nursing education materials such as records, rules, time records, calendars, yearbooks,
    correspondence, films, videos, selected textbooks;
  • diaries, notes or records of individuals involved in nursing educations in Manitoba;
  • documents from former schools of nursing that cannot be deposited with other collections of
    museums;
  • labelled photographs;
  • short and long term loan of appropriate artifacts and display materials.
• Artifacts directly related to the School/Faculty of Nursing at the University of Manitoba will be collected.
• Where possible, items not directly related will be re-directed to the appropriate school of nursing archives or
  museum.