Volume 4/January 2019
Hospital Library Services Program Newsletter
Happy 2019! We hope the information in this month's newsletter will be interesting to all of you. Let us know of any events you are involved in, that we may share with other members!
We have been busy working to bring you an exciting series of Health and Wellness webinars on a variety of topics we hope will be of interest to you. They are free, but you must register for each one that you would like to attend. Below are the topics and date for each. You can sign up via our website . We hope you will be able to attend and find the information very useful for work/life balance.
January 24 from 10-11 AM : Preventing Workplace Burnout: Self-care Strategies
February 15 from 10-11 AM : Just the Winter Blues? Facts & Myths about Seasonal Affective Disorder
March 14 from 11 AM - Noon : Grief in the Workplace
April 30 from 1-2 PM : Ending the Mental Illness Stigma
May 15 from 1-4 PM: Nature Heals : Connecting with Nature to Improve Health & Wellness (see website for complete details on this final session).
Register for this webinar about the update on DOCLINE 6.0! Presented by Erin D. Latta from the National DOCLINE Coordination Office. DOCLINE is the National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s document delivery and interlibrary loan service. The objectives of this session include: Recognize the changes in the redesigned DOCLINE 6.0 ; Explain to others how the Google sign-in process works ; Understand how to view/update library profiles and how to submit borrow and lend requests.
We hope you will take advantage of this webinar, especially if you have questions in regard to the DOCLINE 6.0 update.
Reminders for HLSP members:
  1. If you received grant money from HLSP in the last year, please make sure you make sure to use up any remaining funds by March 31, 2019. Money remaining cannot be rolled over to the next year.
  2. Final Reports of items you have spent your 2017-2018 grant money will be due by May 1, 2019. Forms will be sent out in mid-March (please remember to include your receipts). Please return completed forms to Molly Brown on or before May 1, 2019.
The Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America, from the National Library of Medicine
"The year was 1793. The place was Philadelphia, which was at that time the nation’s capital. The city was thriving. And so was a dangerous disease called yellow fever.

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton would contract it. As would the prominent physician and founding father Benjamin Rush. George Washington didn’t get it. He fled the city.

Because so many fled, many of the people most instrumental in caring for the afflicted and burying the dead were African Americans.

Now, at the same time that Americans have rediscovered Hamilton through a bestselling autobiography and a sell-out Broadway show, the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia needs retelling." ( continue reading )

The National Library of Medicine has created an impressive exhibition of this time in early American history and the scourge of the yellow fever epidemic that engulfed Philadelphia in 1793. In addition to the article above, there is also an online exhibition , which includes a wide variety of rich primary sources for you to investigate if you are not near the D.C area. Or you can visit the Library's History of Medicine Division in person, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, where the exhibition will be on display until May 22, 2019. The collection includes historical documents on yellow fever dating back to the 1793 epidemic in Philadelphia until the early 20th century, when US Army Major Walter Reed confirmed mosquitoes were the transmitters of the disease.

If you are interested in pursuing the history of yellow fever in more depth, another fascinating source is the book, " The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History ", available at your local library!
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