By Griffin Burgess

Announcing a new exhibit at ZSFG!

From January 28th to March 9th, the National Libraries of Medicine’s traveling exhibit, Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture will be on display in the lobby of the main hospital (Building 25) at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

The exhibit is only available for six weeks, so be sure to visit as soon as you can!

From NLM:

The exhibition explores the rise of AIDS in the early 1980’s and the evolving response to the epidemic over the last 30 years.

The title Surviving and Thriving comes from a book written in 1987 by and for people with AIDS that insisted people could live with AIDS, not just die from it. Jennifer Brier, the exhibition curator, explains that “centering the experience of people with AIDS in the exhibition allows us to see how critical they were, and continue to be, in the political and medical fight against HIV/AIDS.”

Surviving and Thriving presents their stories alongside those of others involved in the national AIDS crisis. The six-banner traveling exhibition utilizes a variety of historic photographs as well as images of pamphlets and publications to illustrate how a group of people responded to, or failed to respond, to HIV/AIDS.

This exhibition was produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health and curated by Jennifer Brier, PhD, University of Illinois.

We’re recruiting for a Digitization and Metadata Intern! If you’re currently or recently enrolled in an LIS (or other) program and are interested in working on some of our super cool digitization, web-archiving, and metadata creation projects we want to hear from you!

The Digitization and Metadata Intern may work any any number of projects, but some of the possibilities we’re most excited about are:

• Creating and cleaning metadata for our project to digitize the stunning set of drawings, paintings, sketches, and photos in the Ralph Sweet Collection of Medical Illustrations.
• Helping to coordinate and carry out capture of UCSF websites as part of our ongoing effort to overhaul our extensive UCSF web-archives collection.
• Assisting with metadata clean up efforts in collaboration with represented community groups, such as with the Black Caucus records.
• Scanning and digitizing historical documents and images requested by our patrons.

Read more about this internship and apply: here. We’re excited to share this work with someone and give prospective candidates opportunity to learn about medical archives.