Twice in a Lifetime: The Pandemic of 1918 and How it Resonates in 2020

Twice in a Lifetime: The Pandemic of 1918 and How it Resonates in 2020

Twice in a Lifetime: the Pandemic of 1918 and How it Resonates in 2020

From Ebling's History of Medicine Librarian, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler at UW-Madison, presented for Waunakee Public Library on October 21, 2020.

In 2018 Micaela Sullivan-Fowler installed an exhibition called "Staggering Losses: WW1 and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918." Little did she know that the exhibition would be shuttered by another Pandemic, the one we are experiencing in 2020.  

• She will give a short background on the exhibition itself, how the "Spanish Flu" affected our local populations

• and how the exhibition resonated for those who visited.  

• Micaela will also touch on the similarities and differences between the two Pandemics.

REALM Toolkit to Support Reopening Practices for Library Staff

Toolkit resources to support reopening practices for library staff are available to download

The REALM Project is providing a toolkit resources to support reopening practices for library staff. 

Currently it includes:

• REALM test results in visual format
• Decision-making checklist
• REALM 101: An introduction to COVID-19 and the project

Check back often as additional resources will be available soon.

This originally appeared on DragonFly: The PNR Weekly Digest.

MLA's Leiter 2020 Lecture: Dr John Brownstein's talk on Digital Epidemiology and the Covid-19 Pandemic recording

Missed the Leiter Lecture at MLA last week?
The webcast has been preserved for your convenience.

 Dr. John Brownstein's talk on: Digital Epidemiology and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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The Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship was established in 1983 to stimulate intellectual liaison between MLA and the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This year's speaker is Dr. John Brownstein, who will be speaking on translation impact on the surveillance, control and prevention of disease, the development and application of data mining and citizen science to public health in relation to his work with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The one-hour lecture is freely available at the link above. 

• You don't need to be registered for the conference to view the recording

Thanks to Patricia Gallagher, Librarian at The National Library of Medicine who made the

announcement to Medlib-L.