Are you interested in hosting Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions at your library or cultural institution? Learn how to apply here.
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Throughout the history of America, people have used mind altering drugs. While some of those drugs are socially acceptable, others are outlawed because of their toxic, and intoxicating, characteristics. These classifications have shifted at different times in history, and will continue to change. Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions explores the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of our most potent drugs, from medical miracle to social menace.
Pick Your Poison is a display of six roll-up graphic banners. For more information, join the NLM Traveling Exhibitions listserv.
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First, join the NLM Traveling Exhibitions listserv to receive notification when the opportunity to apply for an exhibition opens up. Then, do the following.
- Develop programs that showcase NLM health information resources and complement Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures and Medical Prescriptions. Below, you’ll find examples of the types of programming ideas you can implement depending on your community’s needs and institution’s resources.
- Partner with your Network of National Library of Medicine (NNLM) members and other organizations in your community for support and collaboration.
- After receiving the listserv post announcing the opportunity to apply for the exhibition, complete the NLM Traveling Exhibition application attached to the email. Describe programming plans, partnerships, and strategies focused around NLM health information resources, which you will implement while hosting Pick Your Poison.
- Submit your completed NLM Traveling Exhibition application to NLMExhibitionApplications@nih.gov
- Watch your inbox for notification 6-8 weeks after the application deadline. NLM will select 14 host sites based on the quality of public programming plans integrating NLM health information resources described in the applications and post the itineraries on the listserv after confirming with the selected host venues.
Find a detailed description of the NLM Traveling Exhibitions application process here.
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NLM offers high-quality, reliable biomedical and health information through print collections and electronic resources.
Put NLM health information resources at the core of the programming plans you describe in your application to host an exhibition. Develop programs that are relevant, accessible, and practical for you and your community. The following ideas exemplify how this can be done:
- Plan seasonal programming or National Health Observance events around NLM health information resources:
- For Talk to Your Doctor Month (August) or World AIDS Day (December), partner with a local research hospital to use ClinicalTrials.gov to share accessible information about what clinical trials are, the range of ways to participate, and what questions to ask when considering enrolling in HIV/AIDS-related clinical trials.
- During Black History Month (February) or Health Insurance Enrollment Month (September), celebrate Black excellence through learning the story of Dr. Leonidas Berry and his fight to desegregate medicine. Have participants write or create art about who they look up to and why in the history of health and health care.
- Support library career development using NLM health information resources:
- Devote a series of library staff professional development sessions to how to use NLM’s medical informatics resources to support health IT and researchers.
- Host an information session, application reviews, or mock interviews for people from underrepresented groups applying for the NLM Associate Fellowship Program for Librarians or the NLM Intramural Research Training Program.
- Improve community health with easy-to-access health information resources:
- Choose a free health-related e-book or get an NNLM Reading Club kit for your next book club.
- Invite nursing students or local nurses from across your region to a training course on Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice and introduce pre-formulated PubMed special queries.
- Develop and market a health information portal on your website with easily accessible links to multilingual health information in the most common languages in your community.
- Plan seasonal programming or National Health Observance events around NLM health information resources:
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Practical Guides
Required Forms
PR Resources
- Exhibition Brochure (PDF)
- Exhibition Poster (PDF)
- PR Information & Images (PDF)
- Pick Your Poison online
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Institutions do the following as part of hosting NLM traveling exhibitions.
- Implement relevant, accessible programming plans and outreach strategies that showcase NLM health information resources, as described in your NLM Traveling Exhibition application.
- Display the exhibition in a safe, secure environment out of direct sunlight.
- Complete and return the Traveling Exhibition Condition Report within one week of receiving the exhibition.
- Make the exhibition available to the public free of charge.
- Arrange and pay for outgoing shipping the exhibition to the next host venue via a trackable, three-day service ($300-$700 estimated cost).
- Complete and submit the Traveling Exhibition Host Venue Report, along with additional publicity and program materials you created for the traveling exhibition and its supplementary events, within two weeks of closing.