Slide 2:
Memphis Public Library, DIG Memphis Library History Collection. Copyright: Memphis and Shelby County Room, Memphis Public Library & Information Center.

• Main Library – Entrance.
• Mural on the wall of the Highland Branch Library. Note on slide: "Highland -- 9/77 -- Mural."

 
Slide 3:
Grant, R. (2021, Nov.). How Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-great-book-scare-people-worried-contaminated-books-could-spread-disease-180972967/.
 
Slide 4: The Pivot.

• https://www.memphislibrary.org/learn/adults-online-programs/
• https://events.dbrl.org/event/5607762
• https://kclibrary.org/summerreading2021

 
Slide 5:
ASIST Keynote talk: Floridi, L. (2021, Oct. 30). Semantic Capital: What It Is and Why It Matters. Association for the Society for Information Science & Technology, Annual Meeting.
 
Slide 6:
19th-century artistic rendering of the Library of Alexandria, where Callimachus compiled the Pinakes
 
Slide 7:

• British Library, Illustrated account on cautery points and medical recipes. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/illustrated-account-on-cautery-points-and-medical-recipes
• National Library of Scotland, Digital Collections. A Scots Buik on the Plague! https://digital.nls.uk/learning/scots-plague-buik/index.html

 
 
Slide 8:

• Text from the British Library’s “Chronicle of the Black Death (1348). https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item103973.html
• Image, the Dancing Deaths, a wood-engraving titled "The Dancing Deaths", from page 56 of "A History of Wood Engraving" by George Woodberry; the caption says it is from Schedel’s Chronicarum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Dancing_Deaths.png

 
Slide 9: From Harvard Library’s online collection: Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics.
https://library.harvard.edu/collections/contagion-historical-views-diseases-and-epidemics
 
Slide 10: from Proquest (Smallpox).

• New York School System, Annual Report, 1841.
• Image 2: see Pandemic Reading: Smallpox in Colonial America, from the Library Company of Philadelphia. https://librarycompany.org/2020/04/23/pandemic-reading-small-pox/
• Reference to The Christian Observer, July 7, 1909, “The Disinfection of Library Books”

 
Slide 11: “The Great Book Scare” -

• “How books at Library are Disinfected” – from Wilmington, Delaware, 1902;
• Mississippi Department of Archives and History: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89065008/1914-04-17/ed-1/seq-2/
• Indiana State Library: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015675/1906-10-18/ed-1/seq-5/
• Also the following article (follow the references).The article is in JSTOR:
  • Greenberg, Gerald S. “Books as Disease Carriers, 1880-1920.” Libraries & Culture 23, no. 3 (1988): 281–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25542069.

 
Slide 12: Open-Air Schools.

• McDonald, N. (1918). Open Air Schools. McCelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Available on Google Play. Note that there are many other related books on Google Play!
• Reading Rooms: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/08/27/rooftop-reading-rooms

 
Slide 13:

• The "open-air crusaders" of Elizabeth McCormick Open air School, Chicago, USA, 1911 From Wikipedia; the image is from the book which is available on the Internet Archive.
• Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, June 23, 1911, Image 1: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95076637/1911-06-23/ed-1/seq-1/

 
Slide 14: From Library of Congress Chronicling America.

• The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.), October 09, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
• The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.), October 08, 1918, Image 1

 
Slide 15: from Hathi Trust.
 
Slide 16: New York Times, 1918, Proquest search
 
Slide 17:

• History of Vaccines website.
• Podair, S. & Simon, S. (1957). Health Education in the Public Library. Public Health Reports 72(10): 918.
• Image: Iron Lung ward-Rancho Los Amigos Hospital.gif - Film publicity photo of an imaginary iron lung ward. -Food and Drug Administration

 
Slide 18:

• Centers for Disease Control., “You Won’t get AIDS from Hide ‘n’ Seek”. With misinformation too readily available, this campaign from America Responds to AIDS attempted to reach a wide audience with neutral images and straightforward information on ways people could not “catch” AIDS. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/survivingandthriving/digitalgallery/detail-A027893.html

 
Slide 19:

• Ingraham, C. (2015, Jan. 27). California’s Epidemic of Vaccine Denial, Mapped. Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/27/californias-epidemic-of-vaccine-denial-mapped/.

 
Slide 20: Images from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
 
A few sites:
 

• The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library. Influenza Encyclopedia: The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918 – 1919: A Digital Encyclopedia. http://www.influenzaarchive.org/
• National Library of Medicine Online Collections: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/
• Harvard University Library’s Collection of Contagion and Diseases: https://library.harvard.edu/collections/contagion-historical-views-diseases-and-epidemics
• College of Physicians of Philadelphia, History of Vaccines: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/
• The Library Company of Philadelphia, Pandemic Reading.