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{"id":589,"date":"2013-07-01T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=589"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:05:52","slug":"welcome-to-circulating-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/07\/01\/welcome-to-circulating-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Circulating Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Jeffrey S. Reznick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <i>Circulating Now,<\/i> the new blog of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/\">History of Medicine Division<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/\">U.S. National Library of Medicine<\/a> (NLM), the world\u2019s largest medical library and home to one of the world\u2019s largest and most treasured history of medicine collections. Encompassing millions of items that span ten centuries, these collections include items in just about every form you can imagine\u2014from books, journals, and photographs, to lantern slides, motion picture films, film strips, video tapes, audio recordings, pamphlets, ephemera, portraits, woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs. Our historical collections also include items from the present day: born-digital materials and rich data sets\u2014like the millions of records in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/indexcat\/ichome.html\">IndexCat<\/a> database\u2014that are ripe for exploration through traditional research methods and new ones that are emerging in the current climate of \u201cbig data\u201d and the digital humanities.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"590\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/07\/01\/welcome-to-circulating-now\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present.jpg?fit=778%2C437&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"778,437\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"Locations of the NLM 1862-Present\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Locations of the National Library of Medicine, 1862 to the present. Top-left to right: Riggs Bank Building, Washington, DC (1862-1866); Ford\u2019s Theater, Washington, DC (1866-1887); bottom-left to right: the \u201cOld Red Brick\u201d building on the National Mall (1887-1962); today, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland.<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present.jpg?fit=778%2C437&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/locations-of-the-nlm-1862-present.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"composite image of four buildings\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locations of the National Library of Medicine, 1862 to the present. Top-left to right: Riggs Bank Building, Washington, DC (1862-1866); Ford\u2019s Theater, Washington, DC (1866-1887); bottom-left to right: the \u201cOld Red Brick\u201d building on the National Mall (1887-1962); today, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why <i>Circulating Now?<\/i>\u2026 For over <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.nlm.nih.gov\/HiddenTreasure\/\">175 years<\/a> our historical collections in their various physical formats have circulated to generations within the<a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101594539\"> reading rooms<\/a> of our various locations in and around Washington, DC. Now, these collections\u2014as part of the trillions of bytes of data produced and delivered by the world\u2019s largest biomedical library\u2014circulate daily to millions of people around the world. <em>Circulating Now<\/em> sustains the tradition and commitment of the NLM, and libraries everywhere, to provide knowledge and expertise freely and to inspire people and enrich lives. <em>Circulating Now<\/em> also conveys the vitality of medical history in our 21st-century world: its relevance and importance for research, teaching, and learning about the human condition. And <em>Circulating Now<\/em> evokes the living quality of the NLM\u2019s historical collections and the stories they offer about the experience of health and disease here in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>So, today, with the launch of <i>Circulating Now, <\/i>the NLM\u2019s History of Medicine Division begins \u201ccirculating\u201d its collections to the world in a new and dynamic way. Through contributions from our researchers, librarians, curators, interns, and other staff\u2014and, I hope, <i>you<\/i>\u2014 this interactive blog will inspire those who have used our collections to share with new audiences what they learned from these rich resources. And I hope those new audiences will be inspired to discover our collections for the first time, to help open new windows onto the past, present, and future of disease and health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/07\/01\/welcome-to-circulating-now\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919.jpg?fit=1062%2C1494&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1062,1494\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1346425192","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"The Mess Kit Vol 1 No 2 April 1919\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>The Mess Kit of Camp Merrit Base Hospital, New Jersey, 1919<br \/>\nCourtesy National Library of Medicine #A109272<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919.jpg?fit=213%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919.jpg?fit=728%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-mess-kit-vol-1-no-2-april-1919.jpg?resize=213%2C300\" alt=\"cover of a printed newsletter illustrated with men marching under the american flag\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Mess Kit<\/em> of Camp Merrit Base Hospital, New Jersey, 1919<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101599568\"><em>National Library of Medicine #A109272<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a researcher myself in our historical collections, I’ve been fortunate to open such a new window, by studying one of my own favorite items from the World War I era: <i>T<\/i><i>he Mess<\/i><i> Kit<\/i>, the official \u201chouse organ\u201d (or in-house magazine) of Camp Merritt Base Hospital, New Jersey. At least fifty military hospitals across twenty-one states and the District of Columbia published and circulated magazines like this during the \u201cwar to end all wars,\u201d all endorsed by the Surgeon General\u2019s Office and brought to life by wounded soldiers and military staff who contributed literary and artistic material. I\u2019ll offer a future blog post about <i>The Mess Kit<\/i>, but for now, let me borrow the words of its editor, Corporal Sydney Flower, as a way to introduce this new blog: \u201c\u2026Its field is very wide; its contents are varied; its uses many. In this number, and in the numbers that follow …You have only to draw up your chair. You are welcome\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off <em>Circulating Now<\/em> will be a series of posts that draws on the NLM\u2019s historical collections and associated others to reenact in a unique way a tumultuous event in medical and American history which occurred 132 years ago this summer: the assassination of, and attempts to save, our nation\u2019s twentieth President, James A. Garfield.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jeffrey-s-reznick.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"551\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/07\/02\/the-president-is-somewhat-restless-reenacting-the-summer-of-1881-and-the-days-following-the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield\/jeffrey-s-reznick\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jeffrey-s-reznick.jpg?fit=220%2C298&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"220,298\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"Jeffrey S. Reznick\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jeffrey-s-reznick.jpg?fit=220%2C298&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jeffrey-s-reznick.jpg?fit=220%2C298&ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-551 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/jeffrey-s-reznick.jpg?resize=77%2C105\" alt=\"Portrait of Jeffrey S. Reznick in the HMD Reading Room\" width=\"77\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Jeffrey S. 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