{"id":19897,"date":"2021-10-29T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=19897"},"modified":"2021-10-29T17:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:35:59","slug":"a-library-is-a-hospital-for-the-mind-alvin-toffler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/a-library-is-a-hospital-for-the-mind-alvin-toffler\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA library is a hospital for the mind.\u201d \u2013 Alvin Toffler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look through your hospital of books and find words that can create inspirational poems. It\u2019s the last week for submission.\u00a0 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 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 the following topical collection of books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Citizen Science<\/strong><br \/>\nCitizen Science; The Crowd and the Cosmos; Diary of a Citizen Scientist<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Health Literacy<\/strong><br \/>\nDeep Medicine; The Digital Doctor; The Future of Healthcare<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disability Health<\/strong><br \/>\nEvery Note Played; Switched On; Tough as They Come<\/li>\n<li><strong>End of Life<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Unwinding of the Miracle; Can\u2019t we talk about something more Pleasant?; The Five Invitations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environmental Health<\/strong><br \/>\nAmity and Prosperity; Plastic: A Toxic Love Story; What the Eyes Don\u2019t See<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little book spine poem to get your creativity started!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19898\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem-1024x487.jpg\" alt=\"A book spine poem that reads: Health Librarianship; Putting Patients First; Answering Consumer Health Questions\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem-1024x487.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem-768x365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/R5Poem.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look through your hospital of books and find words that can create inspirational poems. It\u2019s the last week for submission.\u00a0 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&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/a-library-is-a-hospital-for-the-mind-alvin-toffler\/\">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":[52,314],"tags":[331,60,325],"class_list":["post-19897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","tag-book-spine-poetry","tag-medical-librarians-month","tag-nnlm-region-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897","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=19897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19900,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19897\/revisions\/19900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}