It's World Blood Donor Day today. I have to admit that I am a lapsed blood donor but I might use today to make a resolution to get back into it next time the blood bus pulls into town. I heard a statistic on the radio this morning that under 10% of us are actually blood donors. Which isn't very much considering the need for it in all sorts of situations.To celebrate (if that's the right word) Blood Donor Day, here are some library resources with ties both obvious and not so obvious, to the red stuff.
Blood - If you do a subject search for Blood in our library catalogue you get 3 pages of results with lots of different categories from Blood Alcohol, Blood Groups and Blood Diseases to the more unusual Bloodsucking Animals and Blood Accusations. Once again both children and adults are represented on the list.
Our Digital Library contains several extremely good Health databases for you to check out any diseases or concerns with relation to blood pressure, blood sugar or anything to do with blood. My family suffers from the common condition Haemochromotosis which is simply put the opposite of Anaemia - we have too much iron in our blood which can be just as devastating to our health. I'm lucky but both my brother and father have to regularly go and be bled (the old fashioned term - today they use the much more medical "venesection").
Which brings me onto the next topic. We couldn't have a blog about the red stuff without mentioning the word Vampire. A keyword search for Vampires reveals almost 2000 entries in our library catalogue. It is a worldwide trend and certainly we have plenty to keep even the most avid Vampire Fan happy. With so much being published in the current market, it is easy to forget that Vampire fiction has been around for a long time. So take a moment to revisit the classics such as Dracula and the novels of Anne Rice.
World Blood Donor day has it's own website "celebrating the gift of blood". And check out the NZ Blood Service website to see if you could become a donor.
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