Starting in October, the entire NationaI Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland became tobacco-free. While smoking inside or in close proximity to NIH buildings has been forbidden for many years, the new regulations ban the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco and all other tobacco products anywhere on the Bethesda campus.
Beginning in 2009, the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSIOU) will be produced only in XML, while continuing to be available through the end of 2008 in both XML and PDF formats. Also, the List of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE (LJI) will be discontinued at the end of 2008 and its data will…
For the sixth consecutive year, the NLM and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) co-sponsored the Leadership Fellows Program, which prepares emerging leaders to assume the directorships of academic health center libraries. The 2008-2009 Fellows and Mentors are: Laura K. Cousineau, assistant director for program development and resource integration, library associate professor, Department…
The National Library of Medicine is serving as one of nine host institutions for the 2009 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and ARL member libraries, the program offers career-enhancing fellowships to MLS graduate students from underrepresented groups. Fellowships include a six- to twelve-week internship…
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) began seeking proposals in July for the SNOMED CT multi-lingual modular workbench that will host terminology editing, translation, mapping and other applications. The National Library of Medicine is the US member of IHTSDO, which is charged with distributing SNOMED CT through its Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)…
NLM in Focus 