Dahlgren Memorial Library Launches New READ Posters

October 30, 2008

 

October marked National Medical Librarians Month, and Dahlgren Memorial Library observed the occasion by releasing a new series of READ posters featuring Georgetown Medical Center faculty and students. The poster campaign is themed “cura personalis,” after the Jesuit ideal of caring for the whole person. The idea behind the campaign is to promote the library's humanities collection. Dedicated in honor of Dr. John M. Eisenberg, a prominent medical center physician, the humanities collection is intended to help current and future physicians and scientists grow professionally and personally through a development of intellectual interests.

The books and people represented by the new posters range from student James Martin and Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor to Father Paul McCarren, S.J., and Barchester Towers .

Describing his choice of book, Father McCarren (pictured) said, “Trollope charms us into facing how foolish we are. He chats about his characters’ worries, crotchets and obsessions so beguilingly that I laugh right along with him. Only after I’ve laughed for some time does it suddenly hit me: ‘Wait, these people are just like me!’ I read on, but not quite so smugly.”

Click here to see the full collection of posters.

Photography by Taffy McKeon.

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