By Sarah Eilers ~ The National Library of Medicine has a rich new set of digital resources for researchers interested in the history of global
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Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data II
By Brianna Chatmon ~ Imagine you are building a house from ground up, every single decision must coordinate with the next. If you choose a
Shared Suffering Onscreen
Circulating Now welcomes guest Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, PhD, Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Seattle University, to discuss his research on the history of scientific filmmaking
International Film Festival Includes NLM Titles
By Sarah Eilers ~ Coming up September 24-26, the Healthy Scepticism Film Festival, a free virtual program organised by the Wellcome Trust, features a range
Exploring the Data of Web Archives as Part of Data Science @ NLM
Over the past year our project was to gain practical experience with tools and techniques for the study of web archives data.
Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data
By Brianna Chatmon ~ I wasn’t surprised when I learned that some of the world’s oldest leather-bound manuscripts housed at The Nag Hammadi Library and
Films of State: Using Government Film
By Sarah Eilers ~ Last week I presented (Zooming, of course) at the “Films of State: Moving Images Made by Governments” conference, cosponsored by the
NLM Collections Tour: Epidemics
Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about epidemics.
Airborne Infection Control in 20-Century Peace and War
By Tom Quick ~ The world can change unexpectedly in times of crisis. This story begins, like so many histories of medicine, with an illness.
Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures
Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers Katherine Randall, Linsey C. Marr, PhD, and E. Thomas Ewing, PhD to explore the history of public health messaging during the 1918 influenza epidemic.