Digital Spotlight: Florence Nightingale Digitization Project

The FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DIGITIZATION PROJECT is part of an International Digital Collaborative.

Contents: The collection contains more than 2300 handwritten or narrated letters by Florence Nightingale. Suggested search terms such as hospitals, military medicine, nursing, rural health services, and workhouses are provided. Users can search all the collections or a specific collection such as the American Nurses Association or the British Red Cross.

Classroom Connections: Use this digital collection as an excellent example of a biographical collection. Or, use it to focus attention on the value of original letters in historical research.

Featured Digital Objects:
Hospital Design https://bit.ly/2Nfgz7D
Sanitary Engineering https://bit.ly/2QoP4KU
Statistics https://bit.ly/2DQnjJZ

To visit the collection, go to http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/web/florence-nightingale

Website Review: Pictures of Nursing

PICTURES OF NURSING is an online exhibition featuring postcards depicting the social and cultural impact of nurses and nursing.

Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this website includes an exhibition, education, and digital gallery sections. The exhibition presents a series of short narratives along with primary source materials in five areas: introduction, a women’s mission, nursing as a career, gender of nursing, nursing and respectability, and the art of nursing. The digital gallery provides access to primary source materials and the education section features lesson plans, higher education resources, online activities, and other materials.

Librarians will find this online exhibition useful across the curriculum. This highly visual approach will be appealing for students of all ages.

To visit the website, go tohttps://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibi…/picturesofnursing/index.html.