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Dec
06
0 comments Tags: hospital librarians, Member Spotlight, National Library of Medicine, New Hampshire
If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour? I would love to focus more on my creative side…something I have yet to discover. As I move closer to retirement, I need to find ways of staying relevant, purposeful, and yet enjoy a new chapter in Life. I… Read More »
Posted in: Communities of Interest
Dec
06
0 comments Tags: National Library of Medicine
The UMASS Chan Medical School Lamar Soutter Library (LSL) is currently hosting the NLM Traveling Exhibit Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection. This exhibit uses historic postcard images to demonstrate some of the history of the nursing profession as well as cultural values of the last century as it relates to nursing. The University… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Graphic Medicine, NLM Resources
Nov
27
0 comments Tags: Funded Projects, Member Spotlight
This guest post is shared courtesy of Bonnie Combs of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor about their NNLM Region 7 Funded Project “Opening Doors to the Outdoors”. People with disabilities constitute a substantial part of the American public. About 1 in 4 people in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have one or more disabilities. While… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project, Weekly Newsletter
Nov
20
0 comments Tags: graphic medicine
This month, R7 was excited to contribute to the “Health Information @ The Library” series for Public Libraries Online with “Graphic Medicine and Public Libraries: A Tool for Health Literacy.” Which makes it a great time to do a quick update on R7 and graphic medicine. Here’s What’s New This fall, we introduced two new… Read More »
Posted in: Communities of Interest, Graphic Medicine
Nov
09
0 comments Tags: academic libraries, Focused Outreach, New Hampshire, public libraries
This summer, I drove up to southern New Hampshire to visit public and academic libraries. Region 7 is conducting Focused Outreach to Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, NH and Litchfield County, CT. My colleagues Sarah Levin-Lederer and Bennie Finch made separate trips. For my Cheshire County visits, I identified libraries by looking at the NNLM Membership… Read More »
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