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Descriptive Summary

Title	Richard B. Talbot Papers
Manuscript Collection number	Ms95-024
Creator	Richard B. Talbot (1933-1994)
Extent	2 boxes (1.4 cubic feet)
Repository	Newman Library, Special Collections Department. University Archives. University Libraries. Blacksburg, Virginia 24062-9001
Shelf location	AR15/C5

Administrative Information

Access: Collection is open for research. Collection is housed in the Special Collections Department in Newman Library.

Preferred Citation: Robert B. Talbot Papers, Ms95-024, Special Collections Department, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

History

Dr. Richard B. Talbot was professor, Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Medical Informatics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. He also served as a consultant in the areas of veterinary medical regulatory and governmental affairs, veterinary informatics, and veterinary medical pharmacology and toxicology.

Richard Talbot was born and reared in Marshall County, Kansas. He attended Kansas State University where he was awarded baccalaureate and doctor of veterinary medicine degrees. He later obtained a Ph.D. degree from Iowa State Unversity.

Talbot also was a faculty member at Iowa State University and the University of Georgia. He started at Iowa State as an instructor of physiology and moved through the ranks to associate professor. At the University of Georgia, he served as professor, as chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, as director of the Institute for Comparative Medicine, and as dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Talbot came to Virginia Tech from the University Georgia in 1975 to help the university plan and develop the Virginia/Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. He served as dean of the college until the first class was graduated in 1984. From 1984 until October of 1987 he devoted full time to research and teaching. For the next two years, he served as director of the Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation at the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on leave from Virginia Tech. At FDA he was responsible for the part of FDA that evaluates all new animal drug entities that sponsors request approval to market in the United States. His work there included an initiative to begin management of new drug applications using electronic submissions and procedures to implement the generic animal drug and patent restoration act. Talbot returned to his teaching and research responsibilities in November of 1989. His research interests involved veterinary medical informatics and included:

• Management and retrieval of pharmacological and toxicological information,
• Management and retrieval of national and international regulatory information,
• Veterinary medical manpower predictive models, and
• Economic aspects of veterinary medical delivery systems.

His work was funded by the FDA and the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop an information base on potential drug residues in food products of animal origin. He also worked in the areas of pharmacologic and toxicologic effects of the stable rare earth compounds.

Talbot was a consultant to several universities and pharmaceutical companies, to the National Institutes of Health, the Bureau of Health Manpower, the FDA, the USDA, and Hazelton Laboratories Corporation. He served on the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Committee on Veterinary Medical Sciences. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, as president-elect of the American Veterinary Computer Society, and chairman of the American Veterinary Medical Association's Committee on Informatics. He was editor of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals and Biologicals, a standard reference work for veterinary medicine.

Dr. Talbot's activities also included service on the Board of Directors of Hazelton Corporation, a life sciences corporation, and First Virginia Bank of the Southwest. He was a member and president-elect of the Rotary Club of Blacksburg, Virginia, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

The collection consists primarily of speeches, speech resource and research materials, administrative notes, departmental program planning and budgeting materials. Speech resources folders are organized chronologically, with undated items first followed by dated items.

• Box 1 (Folders 1-46)
• Box 2 (Folders 47-57)

Inventory

Box 1 (Talbot)

• Folder 1. Speeches, 1967
• Folder 2. Speeches, 1968
• Folder 3. Speeches, 1969
• Folder 4. Speeches, 1970
• Folder 5. Speeches, 1971
• Folder 6. Speeches, 1972
• Folder 7. Speeches, 1973
• Folder 8. Speeches, 1974
• Folder 9. Speeches, 1975
• Folder 10. Speeches, 1976
• Folder 11. Speeches, 1977
• Folder 12. Speeches, 1978
• Folder 13. Speeches, 1979
• Folder 14. Speeches, 1980
• Folder 15. Speeches, 1981
• Folder 16. Speeches, 1982
• Folder 17. Speeches, 1984
• Folder 18. Speeches, not dated
• Folder 19. Speech resources 1
• Folder 20. Speech resources 2
• Folder 21. Speech resources 3
• Folder 22. Speech resources 4
• Folder 23. Speech resources 5
• Folder 24. Veterinary Medical Informatics
• Folder 25. Departmental Program Planning and Budgeting 1: Anatomy & Histology, Avian Medicine
• Folder 26. Departmental Program Planning and Budgeting 2: Medical Microbiology
• Folder 27. Departmental Program Planning and Budgeting 3: Medicine & Surgery
• Folder 28. Departmental Program Planning and Budgeting 4: Pathology, Parisitology, Physiology & Pharmacology, Diagnostic Laboratories
• Folder 29. Model Budget: VMRCVM Budget
• Folder 30. Model Budget: Cost Center Budgets
• Folder 31. Model Budget: Miscellaneous (expenditures, revenues, salaries, enrollment, start-up comparison)
• Folder 32. Correspondence
• Folder 33. Physiology of Aging 1
• Folder 34. Physiology of Aging 2
• Folder 35. "The View from Here," article about Dr. Talbot by Warren Strother
• Folder 36. "The Behavior of Certain Lanthanons in Rats" by Goran Magnusson
• Folder 37. "Quality and Equality in Helath Professions Education and Service" by Lloyd C. Elam
• Folder 38. "The Book of Life" by Robert L. Sinsheimer
• Folder 39. Administrative notes: Administrative Development
• Folder 40. Administrative notes: Faculty Effort and Faculty Retention
• Folder 41. Administrative notes: Program Development I-V (Instruction, Physical Plant, Financial Resources, Teaching Hospital, Research & Graduate Programs)
• Folder 42. Administrative notes: Program Development VI-X (Support Services, Organization & Administration, Personnel Development, Intercollegiate & Extramural Relations, Public Service Extension)
• Folder 43. History of the AVMA
• Folder 44. Biographical materials
• Folder 45. Miscellaneous materials
• Folder 46. Paperweight from dedication of Richard B. Talbot Educational Resources Center

Box 2 (Talbot)

• Folder 47. Title pages of reprints pulled from collection
• Folder 48. Title pages of reprints pulled from collection
• Folder 49. Conference presentations
• Folder 50. Appraisal of the Safety of Chemicals in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics
• Folder 51. Slides
• Folder 52. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--sources unknown
• Folder 53. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--sources unknown
• Folder 54. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--journals not available in Addison
• Folder 55. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--journals not available in Addison
• Folder 56. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--journals not available in Addison
• Folder 57. Documents from Dr. Talbot's files--journals not available in Addison

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