Sunday, February 18, 2007

Week VI

Turning the Pages

This is a fantastic website with digitized images of rare biomedical books from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The presentation was done with Flash, and I've listed some of the images below. If only some of our other museums managed to do such a wonderful presentation online:


































2 comments:

Madison Adams said...

Great find! The LOC and the National Constitution Center have similar displays for some of the historical documents in their collections, but not as comprehensive as this.

Brooke Seidman said...

I agree that this type of presentation of images should be done at all museums. The ability of teachers to open a webpage and utilize digital images of books, artwork, etc. would make learning more meaningful for students!
Good find!

Brooke :)