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Four 16mm color film strips.

Collecting Roses: The Catholic University Film Collection Finding Aid

October 24, 2019 Circulating Now

By Ethan Cheng ~ I’ve always wanted to work in a library. As a student of the life sciences spending the summer doing neuroscience research

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Detail from an abstract artwork with cell and genetic elements and the name Dr. Stan Cohen.

Stanley N. Cohen Papers Open for Research

January 24, 2019 Circulating Now

By James Labosier and John Rees ~ An important new archival collection, the Stanley N. Cohen Papers (1948–2016), is now available at the National Library

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Stackes of film canisters on shelves.

Opening the Vault: Finding Aids for Film

January 10, 2019 Circulating Now

By Gabrielle Barr ~ Every day, staff at the National Library of Medicine are working to maintain and expand the online catalog that provides the

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Photograph of Bernadine Healy standing in a white lab coat holding lab equipment.

Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010)

March 13, 2018 Circulating Now

By Megan O’Hern ~ A new archival collection, the Bernadine Healy Papers (1958–2010) is now available at the National Library of Medicine. Though she was

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A pyramid diagram with the NGI Initiative at the top, agency programs in the middle, and the commercial Internet at the bottom.

HPCC Archived at NLM: Evolution and Assessment

December 14, 2017 Circulating Now

By Sally Howe ~ This third and last blog post associated with announcing the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) archival collection has three topics. First

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A map of the southern hemisphere showing measurements of the antarctic ozone hole.

HPCC Archived at NLM: Collaboration and Creation

November 7, 2017 Circulating Now

By Sally Howe ~ In a blog post in September we announced the release of a finding aid for the HPPC archive. That post focused

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Map of U.S. with multiple connections spread nationwide.

High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM

September 25, 2017 Circulating Now

By Sally Howe ~ People today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone about the infrastructure that enables

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A map of the continental United States with blue dots.

The Power of Aggregation

February 21, 2017 Circulating Now

By John Rees We all appreciate the convenience of the modern shopping experience. Who doesn’t love visiting a local farmer’s market on a Saturday morning

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Films and Essays from NLM: Medicine on Screen

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

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the <em>Depressive Neurosis</em> 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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