Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present
Category: Series
Short projects comprising several posts focused around a particular topic.
Revealing Data: Flu Masks on Ships, 1918
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Ariel Ludwig, Jessica Brabble, and E. Thomas Ewing, from Virginia Tech to explore the use of masks on World War
Revealing Data: Ars de Statica Medicina, 1614
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Caterina Agostini, who discusses a recent acquisition at the NLM History of Medicine Division’s collection: the Ars de statica medicina
Making Exhibition Connections: New College of Florida
Libraries, museums, and organizations throughout the United States and across the world host National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibitions. These sites plan and present
Revealing Data: Learning About Zika
NLM collection items reveal how data has informed scientists’ understanding of Zika and its impact on the health of individuals and communities around the world.
Revealing Data: Dr. James Herrick and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Professor of History and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at
Seeking Leek Island: An Interview with Pamela Robertson
In 2019, Circulating Now published two blog posts about a scrapbook NLM had recently acquired. One post related the history of Leek Island Military Hospital
Making Exhibition Connections: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Francisco Fajardo and Jorge Perez talk about hosting Surviving and Thriving.
‘Barbed-wire disease’ during the First World War
By Matthew Stibbe ~ Even before the guns fell silent in Northern France and Belgium on November 11, 1918, the prevalence of mental disturbance among
Revealing Data: Charting Pain in 1879
By Krista Stracka ~ Rollin R. Gregg’s Illustrated Repertory of Pains in the Chest, Sides and Back published in 1879, came to the National Library