Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday October 26th, just in time

for Halloween and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this week we have a

spooky well it's not that spooky it's actually really fascinating episode

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All right, so we had the opportunity this week to hear from Megan Rosenblum once again.

You guys may remember that she was on my show many moons ago and we talked an awful lot about the death positive

movement we also talked a bit about library science and she continues along you

know those traditions she's currently working as a

collection strategies librarian at UCLA Library in here in LA. She, you know, used to

work as a medical librarian and gosh she has so many cool things that she does in addition to her core work.

She's the obituary editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association and the President of the Southern California

Society for the History of Medicine.

And of course she's the co-founder and director of Death Salon, which is the arm of the

order of the good death that puts on events and as I mentioned a leader in the death positive movement

but we're going to talk about a peculiar unique maybe I should say perhaps eccentric but I think absolutely fascinating interest of Meggans and she wrote a whole book about it.

It's called Dark Archives, a librarians investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin.

Yes, human skin. So without any further ado, let's get into it guys. Here she is Megan Rosenblum.

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