
Harvard Library Bulletin
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Scholarly journal for research on @HarvardLibrary collections. Est. 1947; online and open-access in 2020; published by @HoughtonLib at @HarvardUniversity.
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British health reformer John Howard wanted to write about conditions in quarantine facilities, so he had himself quarantined—for 42 days. Read Spencer J. Weinreich's commentary on Howard's account in Harvard Library Bulletin: buff.ly/3jkH5yO #HarvardContagionProject


In medieval Europe, if doctors couldn't cure you, maybe prayer would. Erik A. Heinrichs explains the popularity of prayer broadsides: "Spiritual Solutions for Plague," Harvard Library Bulletin : buff.ly/3xkn8gv #HarvardContagionProject


In her commentary for the #HarvardContagionProject with Harvard Library Bulletin, He Bian writes that in 16th c. China, a new virus required a novel cure, so physician Li Shizhen immortalized one in his compendium of materia medica: buff.ly/3jdE8ji


Welcome back, Harvard Library! Find opening and safety info for all your favorite Harvard University repositories: buff.ly/3xGPf9J


110 years ago, Dr. Wu Lien-teh argued that #masks were vital #PPE during a pneumonic plague epidemic with a nearly 100% fatality rate. Sarah Xia Yu comments in Harvard Library Bulletin: buff.ly/3j0908a #HarvardContagionProject


In her #HarvardContagionProject commentary in Harvard Library Bulletin, Kathryn Olivarius writes about how Edward Barton harnessed the power of vital #data to address the astronomical yellow fever mortality rates in 1850 New Orleans. buff.ly/3B2XT4x


Are you ready for #openaccessweek2021? Join Harvard Library on Tue 10/26, 11 AM for keynote "The bioRxiv & medRxiv Preprint Servers: Communicating at the Speed of Science," by Richard Sever of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Register: buff.ly/2ZibGGU


Happy #openaccessweek2021! OSC Harvard and the rest of Harvard Library are celebrating for the next month and we hope you'll join us. Find all the events and programming: buff.ly/3Gd3qbZ #openaccessweek #OAWeek #Harvard #openknowledge


TODAY at 11 AM EST: #openaccessweek2021 kicks off Harvard University with a keynote by Richard Sever: "The bioRxiv & medRxiv Preprint Servers: Communicating at the Speed of Science." Register: buff.ly/3Gd3qbZ #OAWeek #OpenScience #openknowledge #Harvard


Already a protocols.io user? Join Countway Library TODAY at 12 PM EST to learn more about its advanced features and functionality! The workshop is aimed at current users but is open and free to all. Register: buff.ly/3Gd3qbZ #OAWeek #openaccessweek2021


Attention Harvard Library staff! Come to this info session if you're interested in Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge Grants, which are designed to spark creativity and encourage collaboration. Learn more about all the #OAWeek events Harvard Library: buff.ly/3Gd3qbZ

"publishing it would interfere with working on it": Using the extensive archive Houghton Library, Jeff Noh of McGill University writes on the wild publication history of Harold Brodkey's infamous novel The Runaway Soul. buff.ly/30q3yF0


#Cassava, the "root crop of the century" and enjoyed as tapioca pearls, is available due to the knowledge of Andean and African people that has made the plant's cultivation and consumption possible. From our #PlantHumanities Initiative and JSTOR Daily: ow.ly/qHKy50HUQ2K


New to Harvard Library Bulletin and #HarvardContagionProject: Stanford University #historian Paula Findlen on the 17th-c. Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, first to study plague under the #microscope—and then wrote a book about it. Countway Library holds an original edition. Read more: buff.ly/33A6K2w


New #HarvardContagionProject article in Harvard Library Bulletin: Taylor M. Moore writes on Egyptian old wives' tales, a mysterious medicine bundle in the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, & the connections "between histories of medicine ... & histories of anthropology & collecting": buff.ly/36p4iNo

🎉 Congratulations to Ben Porteous #Harvard22, on graduating and for being the first undergraduate author published in Harvard Library Bulletin online! Read his #translation of an 18th-century Chinese #manuscript held at Harvard-Yenching Institute: buff.ly/3sRnOKT


Just published in Harvard Library Bulletin: Thanks to a Harvard Library #AdvancingOpenKnowledge grant, author Vanessa Formato and colleagues at the Abraham Pollen Archives uncovered the lives and identities of Mass Eye and Ear's earliest #women #physicians. buff.ly/3QVjDrz


📣 PSA: Harvard Library Bulletin is undergoing maintenance this weekend and will be down. You can search past articles on DASH: buff.ly/3gs9Fe8 We will be up and running again soon. Thanks to our friends at Harvard Web Publishing for their hard work!

Part of English at Harvard's 2022 Bloomfield Conference in honor of Prof. James Simpson: a pop-up exhibition Houghton Library w/works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, & more. Harvard Library Bulletin has published the exhibition labels and an essay by curator Bailey Sincox: buff.ly/3QXXkjP

Happy #OAWeek2022! Check out Harvard University's OA Week events related to this year's theme, #OpenForClimateJustice: buff.ly/3MvhuRT. Harvard Library Bulletin is proud to be one of Harvard Library's OA initiatives. Read our 2021 interview: buff.ly/3D99RMu.
