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January Issue 2007
Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC, Presents Exhibit Featuring America's Women Physicians
The
Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC, will host the
national traveling exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine:
Celebrating America's Women Physicians, on view through Feb.
14, 2007, in the Wachovia Gallery of the Main Library.
The exhibit tells the extraordinary story of how American women such as Matilda Evans, the first African-American physician to be licensed in South Carolina, struggled during the past two centuries to gain access to medical education. Changing the Face of Medicine features the life stories of diverse women physicians from around the nation and highlights the broad range of medical specialties women are involved in today.
Two interactive kiosks traveling with the exhibit offer access to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) "Local Legends" Web site (www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends), which features outstanding women physicians from every state, and to a Web site created for the larger exhibit at NLM (www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine). The exhibit Web site offers access to educational and professional resources for people considering medicine as a career, as well as lesson plans for classroom activities. A section called "Share Your Story" allows the public to add the names and biographies of women physicians they know.
The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD, and the American Library Association in Chicago, IL, organized the exhibit with support from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health and the American Medical Women's Association. The traveling exhibit is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the NLM from 2003-2005.
The Richland County Public Library partnered
with USC's College of Library and Information Science and the
School of Medicine Library to bring the exhibit to Columbia. A
number of free programs and other events for the public have been
planned in conjunction with the exhibit.
For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings,
call the Library at 803/929-3457 or visit (www.richland.lib.sc.us).
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