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NLM ANNOUNCES: ART EXHIBITION at National Museum of Health
& Medicine
Now Booking Other Venues
A unique exhibition that explores links between art, health care
and healing will become available for bookings in medical libraries,
museums and art galleries, beginning in 1999.
"All the Symptoms of an Artist: Working from Medicine" opened in January at the National Museum of Health & Medicine in Washington DC. The seven featured artists are all current or former health care practitioners. The curator, Cynthia Roznoy, shares this dual background: an art historian and manager of the Whitney Museum of Art's museum in Stamford, Connecticut, she is a former nurse.
"Symptoms" first opened in Philadelphia last summer, at the Esther Klein Gallery of the University City Science Center. A critic for the Philadelphia "Inquirer" lauded the show's fine premise and especially Elizabeth Hill's "striking figurative sculptures" and Frederick Franck's "softly meditative" zen-like paintings. The "Weekly's art critic described June Ahren's sculptures as "elegant and hauntingly spare," Cynthia Stone's "unnervingly attractive color field paintings, [which move in a] delightfully dangerous way." And Libbie Soffer's textile works as "surreal winners." The artists in the show all exhibit regularly in galleries and museums throughout the United States and overseas. June Ahrens was recently awarded the best Artist/Advocacy by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. A former public health and emergency nurse, she is currently an artist-in-residence at a homeless shelter. One of her works, "Used and Worn" is a carefully assembled installation of 500 used bars of soap, each assigned its own empty sardine can and then adhered in a tight grid to a wall. The 5-by-6-foot work shows soaps that Ahrens has collected from people of all walks of life. It is at once a send-up of minimalism and an evocation of the evanescence of life.
The show can be reconfigured for various size spaces, varying from approximately 1000-2500 square feet, and including upwards of 20 works. It rents for $6500-10,000 per venues (for 10-12 week periods), depending on the nature of the institution. Johnson & Johnson sponsored the initial tour. Openings for 1999, 2000 and 2001 are now being offered.
For further information, call Betsy
Self, OATH (Organization for Artists Trained in Health Care),
at 215 849 5790 or fax 215 849 5791.
submited by Marcia Zorn; originally posted to MEDLIB-L
On Monday, April 12, the National Library of Medicine unveiled its new web catalog, called LOCATORplus, which will allow anyone with Internet access to find out what books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and other items are contained in the world's largest medical library.
There are many exciting new features which will be available via LOCATORplus. Customers using the catalog from the Web can search by author, MeSH subject, title, conference name, keyword and many other specific fields, then e-mail the results to themselves. Current receipts of both serial and monograph material will be displayed along with information about material which is on order or available electronically. Hotlinks to online journals will be available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other resources will be available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of the History of Medicine, TOXNET, HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs.
LOCATORplus is part of NLM's new integrated library system (ILS) which was installed for in-house use in November 1998. The ILS is being used for acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection management, circulation and preservation. LOCATORplus is the ILS's online public access catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for the Library's cataloging records, replacing existing online access methods, such as Locator, CATLINE, AVLINE and SERLINE. LOCATORplus brings together a number of previously disparate databases, along with information formerly available only to staff, using state-of-art information retrieval technology.
Beginning April 12th, search NLM's LOCATORplus. The site is updated daily. For a preview of the system use the Quick Start Tutorial.
submitted by National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region; originally posted to hlib-nw
It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine to procure services to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related information by patients, the affected community, their care givers, and the general public. Request for Quotations (RFQ) Number NLM 99-055/SLF will be issued on or around April 9, 1999. Copies of the RFQ may be obtained by writing to the National Library of Medicine, Office Of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N17, Bethesda, MD 20894, Attention: Sheila L. Fauble, Procurement Technician. Copies of the RFQ may also be obtained by emailing the request to Ms. Fauble. Fax requests will NOT be accepted.
RFQ 99-055/SLF will also be available in electronic format. The RFQ may be downloaded from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Home Page on the World Wide Web (WWW), after April 9, 1999. The home page URL is http://www.nlm.nih.gov/oam/oam.html (see NLM Small Purchases - Simplified Acquisitions). The period of performance is anticipated to start on or about September 30, 1999 and expire on or about March 31, 2001. All responsible and responsive sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the National Library of Medicine.
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