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Two white men take blood from a young black youth outside a building, other black adults and youths look on.

D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea

April 7, 2015 Circulating Now

By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918–2000, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in

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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.

We're revved up for #WorldMotorcycleDay! This 1926 #postcard features a photograph of rural visiting nurse Elizabeth McPhee astride her BSA motorcycle in Scotland. The Eilean Donan Castle is visible in the background.

Happy #PrideMonth! Today we are sharing the cover from the #FirstIssue of "Tales of the Closet" (Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer/Fall 1987, Isolation). This award-winning #ComicBook series by Ivan Velez, Jr. depicts the everyday lives and struggles of eight LGBTQ+ youths in a high school in Queens, New York in the mid-1980s and served in part as an education tool during the HIV/AIDS crisis.

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