Circulating Now Comes Full Circle

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched its Circulating Now blog in 2013 to convey the vitality of medical history in our 21st-century world. In the blog, individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines share stories of their engagement with the NLM collection—which spans 11 centuries, encompasses a variety of digital and physical formats, and originates from nearly every part of the world.

A decade later, and with hundreds of posts published, Circulating Now has demonstrated the public’s esteem for the NLM collection. The Washington Post has called the blog, “varied, lively and sometimes surprising.”

A new open-access book, Circulating Now: Full Circle, presents a collection of curated posts from the blog, edited by Elizabeth A. Mullen, manager of web development and social media at NLM, and Dr. Jeffrey S. Reznick, senior historian at NLM.

The book features six thematic chapters, each illustrated and introduced with a new and original essay describing the content development and reflecting on the programmatic and intellectual significance of the selected posts. The book creates a new access point for researchers and augments the original blog as a deep knowledge base of searchable information about NLM’s collection.

To access the free, digital version of this book, visit:  https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/.