{"id":19873,"date":"2021-10-22T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=19873"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:56:20","slug":"a-room-without-books-is-like-a-body-without-a-soul-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/a-room-without-books-is-like-a-body-without-a-soul-cicero\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA room without books is like a body without a soul.\u201d \u2013 Cicero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look for the soul within your books by sharing a poem with words on their spines. In honor of National Medical Librarians Month and National Health Literacy Month NNLM is hosting a book spine poetry contest. All participants will be entered into a lottery to receive a free copy of each of the books selected from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/nnlm-reading-club\">NNLM Reading Club\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; a total of 15 books to add to your collection and share with your users!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Grab some books (at least 3)<\/li>\n<li>Stack them up!<\/li>\n<li>Arrange the titles to create a health related poem<\/li>\n<li>Take a photo and share it with us!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>How to Enter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Submissions will be accepted throughout October. Send us your entry on Twitter by tagging @nnlmregion5\u00a0and\u00a0#BookSpinePoetry\u00a0or e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:nnlm@uw.edu\">nnlm@uw.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Individuals can submit up to<strong> three <\/strong>times.<\/p>\n<p>10 winners will be selected following National Medical Librarians Month and Health Literacy Month.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will receive a collection of 15 books on Citizen Science, Digital Health Literacy, Disability Health, End of Life and Environmental Health.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little book spine poem to spark your creativity:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19877\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem_10.22.21v4-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"This book spine poem reads, &quot;A Homemade Life, On Trails, The Pull of the Stars, Written in Stone.&quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem_10.22.21v4-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem_10.22.21v4-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem_10.22.21v4-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem_10.22.21v4.jpg 1479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Go Region 5!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look for the soul within your books by sharing a poem with words on their spines. In honor of National Medical Librarians Month and National Health Literacy Month NNLM is hosting a book spine poetry contest. All participants will be entered into a lottery to receive a free copy of each of the books selected&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/a-room-without-books-is-like-a-body-without-a-soul-cicero\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9,314],"tags":[331,57,60],"class_list":["post-19873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-health-literacy","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","tag-book-spine-poetry","tag-health-literacy","tag-medical-librarians-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19875,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}