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These posts serialize the 2017 book “US National Library of Medicine” in the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing.

The book Images of America: The US National LIbrary of Medicine sits on a collage of archival images.

NLM in Pictures—Read it This Summer

June 24, 2018 Circulating Now

Putting together a summer reading list? Images of America: U.S. National Library of Medicine, published a two years ago this month in the popular series by Arcadia Publishing, is sure to please.

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Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is sworn in as the 19th director of the Library on September 12, 2016.

A New History of NLM: The Library in the 21st Century

August 4, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle ~ This is the final post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US

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NLM Staff gathered on the steps of the Library for a photograph.

A New History of NLM: Celebrating 150 Years of Public Service and Looking to the Future

August 2, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This is the eighth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

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The Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communication highrise building underconstruction alongside the National Library of Medicine

A New History of NLM: Information Age

July 31, 2017 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the seventh post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

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An areal view of the National Library of Medicine building on the NIH campus when it was new.

A New History of NLM: A New Name and A New Home

July 27, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Susan L. Speaker ~ This is the sixth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US

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A man works in a book binding shop.

A New History of NLM: World War II and Relocation

July 25, 2017 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ This is the fifth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

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A street mat of Washinton DC showing the location of the Army Medical Library.

A New History of NLM: The “Old Red Brick”

July 20, 2017 Circulating Now

By Anne Rothfeld ~ This is the fourth post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine in

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Handwritter: I am trying to form a great National Medical Library here - a work of great labor - which I am satisfied can only be done under Government.

A New History of NLM: Civil War and the Era of John Shaw Billings

July 18, 2017 Circulating Now

By James Labosier ~ This is the third post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine in

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Detail of a handwritten budget estimate with a line for $150 for Medical Books for Office.

A New History of NLM: Origins and Early Years

July 13, 2017 Circulating Now

By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ This is the second post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National Library of Medicine

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detail from the cover of a new illustrated history of the National Library of Medicine.

Introducing A New Illustrated History of NLM

July 11, 2017 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick and Ken Koyle ~ This is the first post in a series of nine which serializes the new book US National

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In addition to being used to create book pages, #parchment is also an option for covering books. Today on #NationalParchmentDay we're sharing a small manuscript from the mid-#16thCentury. It has a limp parchment cover that has shrunk to the point it no longer fully covers the text block - a common phenomenon for this material, which is very sensitive to the many environmental changes that would happen over the course of centuries.
Today we are celebrating the birthday of Helen Keller (born #OTD in 1880). She lost both her hearing and sight after a bought of illness as a young child and went on to become a disability rights advocate. Among her many achievements was her work on behalf of returning veterans during and after the Second World War. This photograph of Helen Keller at the bedside of a wounded veteran was taken during her visit to the patients of Brooke General Hospital in 1944 and was featured in an article in the hospital's magazine, the Brooke Bluebonnet Broadcast. To the patients and staff she said, "The fighting men have splendid morale...it is hard to define--makes me feel the spirit that is mightier than all wars--a spirit that will at last recreate the world."
Barcodes are wonderful! They are immensely useful for keeping track of collection items in our libraries. Unfortunately, they're also sometimes placed in inconvenient places such as on these reports from the 1880s. In addition to being on the envelope the items are housed in, which is totally cool, both barcodes and call number labels were placed directly on the brittle paper at some point in the past. This isn't best for document preservation for multiple reasons, including that the barcodes are much stiffer and thicker than the surrounding paper. We removed them in the conservation lab so that the historic paper will be safer long term.
This image, produced for the NLM's "AIDS, Posters, and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic" exhibition, was recently featured in the piece by @pozmagazine entitled "Viewing the History of AIDS through Posters." Visit https://loom.ly/R1fL-Bs to follow the conversation between three curators on their recent exhibitions which "emphasize the pivotal role played by HIV and AIDS posters since the virus emerged in the early ’80s." (🔗 link also in bio).
Today's Circulating Now blog looks at "And There's the Humor of It: Shakespeare and the Four Humors," a newly relaunched online exhibition that explores the language of the four humors and their influence in Shakespeare’s plays. The #exhibition features rare books from NLM and the Folger Shakespeare Library collections and includes one university level and two K-12 class resources, as well as a digital gallery of NLM collection items on #humoralism, dating back to the 13th century.
Summer officially arrived this week, and we are feeling the heat! For #NationalHydrationDay, we are sharing this #postcard issued in 1917 that features a painting by artist Fritz-Friedrich Boscovits of a woman (Charity) providing water to a thirsty man. Proceeds from the sale of the postcard were donated to the Swiss Red Cross. Visit https://loom.ly/J2ADtxA to view in NLM's Digital Collections, or see the link in bio.

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