Call For Requests for Eight New NLM Traveling Exhibitions Is Open

Posted by Miles Dietz-Castel on January 25th, 2023 Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources
Tags: Traveling Exhibit

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The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) opens the Call for Requests for NLM Traveling Exhibitions is now open! Please submit your requests online using this NLM Traveling Exhibition Request Form by 2 pm (ET), February 14, 2023.

The online form enables you to:

• view all available exhibition titles and booking slots during September 2023–March 2025,
• specify up to three exhibition and booking slot preferences—one to be booked if the lottery selects your request, and
• submit one request to the lottery for selecting exhibition bookings.

Please bookmark and visit the NNLM Traveling Exhibitions webpage to access links to the traveling exhibition pages and the online request form when you are ready to submit your requests.

For now, here are the eight titles available for requests. Please visit their traveling exhibition web pages to find exhibition-specific details, such as the number, weight, and dimensions of each exhibition’s shipping container(s).

1. Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine (6 banners)
2. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (6 banners)
3. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature/Frankenstein: Penetrando en los secretos de la naturaleza (bilingual 12 banners)
4. From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry (6 banners)
5. The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (6 banners)
6. Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions (6 banners)
7. Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture (6 banners)
8. Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture/Sobrevivir y Prosperar: Sida, Politica y Cultura (bilingual 12 banners)