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Seeing the Picture (Hardin MD blog)

A new blog — Seeing the Picture — has just been launched, for discussion of issues relating to work on Hardin MD. As the title suggests, much of the discussion will center on the unique aspects of pictures on the Web, and how pictures are being handled in digitization efforts by libraries and other groups,Continue reading “Seeing the Picture (Hardin MD blog)”

Hardin, MLA, & Google combat Salmonella

With the recent outbreak of Salmonella infection, the Hardin MD Salmonella Symptoms page has gotten heavy traffic from Google searches. Much of this traffic has come from people clicking the symptom label assigned by a group of Medical Library Association (MLA) librarians, who are a part of the Google Health Coop project. This is aContinue reading “Hardin, MLA, & Google combat Salmonella”

Pictures from classic medical books in Hardin MD

Many of the pictures in Hardin MD are public-domain, meaning that they are not copyrighted. One useful source for pictures that are not copyrighted is classic medical books that are old enough that their copyright has run out. Hardin MD has pictures from three of these books, described below. Dermochromes, by Jerome Kingsbury, pictures byContinue reading “Pictures from classic medical books in Hardin MD”