2006 marked the 170th anniversary of the decidedly unsplashy founding of the National Library of Medicine in 1836, as the Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army. It wasn’t until 1956, with passage of the National Library of Medicine Act, that the Library was rechristened the National Library of Medicine, moving…
January marked the launch 10 years ago of the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed as an “experimental” database under the Entrez retrieval system, with full access to MEDLINE. “Experimental” was quickly dropped, however, and, at a June 26,1997 Capitol Hill press conference with Vice President Al Gore, the information highway became a freeway. PubMed opened up…
Lisa Boyd, consumer health librarian with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) National Network Office, National Library of Medicine, was selected for the 2006-2007 class of the NLM/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Fellows Program. Through a combination of in-person and virtual learning opportunities, the program prepares emerging leaders for director…
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