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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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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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This year, the NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group began documenting the landscape of organizations, programs, and advocacy efforts that exist to address current issues in #WomensHealth. Learn about the new Women’s Health web archive in today's Circulating Now blog post, "Documenting Women’s Health Organizations and Resources on the Web" (🔗 in bio or https://loom.ly/AR-nh5k).
Historic titles recently released through PubMed Central via NLM's partnership with the Wellcome Trust include the:
For #TitlePageTuesday, we are featuring images from Practica de Partos, a midwifery manual authored by Benita Paulina Cadeau de Fessel. Madama Fessel, as she was known, was a professionally trained midwife from Paris who immigrated to New Orleans, Mexico, and finally ended up in Lima in about 1820 where she founded and headed up La Maternidad, a school of midwifery. Printed in Lima in 1830, this book is one of the oldest items in the collection from Latin America that was written by a woman.
"Think boldly, don't be afraid of making mistakes, don't miss small details, keep your eyes open, and be modest in everything except your aims."--Albert Szent-Györgyi's advice to biographer Ralph Moss (1984)
Join us next week on Thursday, September 21 at 2 PM ET to welcome Kelly S. O’Donnell, PhD for the 7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine. In "Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care," Dr. O'Donnell will discuss the roles, expectations, and contributions of spouses of physicians in the twentieth century.
Staff of NLM's predecessor institution, the Army Medical Library, gathered together for this group photo in the mid-1940s.

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