Looking for something seasonal for this week, I put in ‘turkey’ and found this beautifully illustrated guide to The costume of Turkey. Not what I had in mind, certainly, but probably even better! Continue reading
If you’re a LIS student and you want to be considered for our spring 2022 internship, the deadline is fast approaching: November 30! The Medical Heritage Library is looking for a Metadata Intern to work with the Content and Metadata Working Group. The internship will provide hands-on experience with current metadata schemas, editing metadata on digital objects, and identifying objects for bulk metadata updates. In addition, the intern will have an opportunity to identify content… Continue reading
~By Nicole Baker, Reference Librarian in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine. The Great Amherst Mystery by Walter Hubbell recounts his personal experience of what has been purported to be one of the most widely witnessed poltergeist phenomena in history. Hubbell observed these events and the family in their home from June 1879 through August 1879. Hubbell believed he was an authority on the “illusive effects” that stage performers like himself… Continue reading
Click on the embedded media below or follow this link to hear an interview with Dr Howard G Bruenn, cardiologist to Franklin D Roosevelt. Continue reading
From Arnold Lang’s 1896 Text-book of comparative anatomy: Continue reading
I make it a point to share this every October: Continue reading
Front page of an 1899 edition of Gazette des hôpitaux civils et militaires de l’Empire Ottoman: Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library is looking for a Metadata Intern to work with the Content and Metadata Working Group. The internship will provide hands-on experience with current metadata schemas, editing metadata on digital objects, and identifying objects for bulk metadata updates. In addition, the intern will have an opportunity to identify content based on available metadata and generate a list of possible items that could become collections. We are looking for interns interested in learning… Continue reading
Check out The second edition of the Scotch doctor. To which is added, a wonderful relation of De Franco’s ghost. With a Full account of what pass’d between the Apparition and the said Doctor, on Sunday last at Two in the Morning from 1720: Continue reading
The title page from the first of four volumes of the Recopilacion de leyes de los reynos de las Indias, republished in 1973. Continue reading
