Monthly Archives: March 2012

Possible disruption next week and shorter opening hours on Monday 12 March

Two brief bits of news about library access next week – 12-16 March 2012

1) On Monday the library will be staffed for a slightly shorter period than usually, from 3.45 to 5.oopm.   If you would like to visit the library, please contact us to arrange an appointment.

2) The unit is having new kitchen units and flooring fitted next week.  The kitchen is just next to the library, so there might be some disruption from noise. 

Woodcut of kitchen from Kuchenmeisterey

Woodcut of kitchen from Kuchenmeisterey (c) Wellcome Library, London

 

Medical ephemera in the US National Library of Medicine

This post by Julie Anne Lambert, Librarian of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library, originally appeared on the John Johnson Collection’s Ephemera Resources blog.  We are very grateful to her for allowing us to re-post it here.  She has blogged about a number of other medical ephemera resources.

Medical ephemera in the US National Library of Medicine

(c) U.S. National Library of Medicine

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) contains 69,271 images, including 7,763 posters and 4,445 postcards.These can be searched (including advanced searching) or browsed by an impressive range of categories under What, where and who. Although predominantly from the USA, these images are international with hundreds from the UK, France, China (notably Chinese anti-malaria and anti tuberculosis posters) and Switzerland.
Here today, here tomorrow: varieties of medical ephemera is the online version of a1995 exhibition of medical ephemera from the collections of William H. Helfand and the National Library of Medicine. It is arranged by theme: Addiction, Aids, Bookplates, Children, Medical education, Medical show, Public health, Tuberculosis and Women. The online version contains 140 of the original 400 items. The site also hosts separate online exhibitions of  Aids ephemera (based on an exhibition held in 2002) and Public health posters.

Ephemera and books on ephemera in the NLM collections can be found through Locator Plus.

(c) US National Library of Medicine and William H. Helfand

Related resources: US National Library of Medicine | John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera | More posts about medical ephemera