January is National Blood Donor Month. With that in mind, NLM in Focus is recognizing the people at the National Library of Medicine, and people everywhere, who make a difference by donating. National Library of Medicine staffers are generous blood donors. NLM held two blood drives in 2011, one in May and one in December,…
The National Library of Medicine has had the honor of leading the 2011 NIH Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). NIH staffers have been so generous they exceeded the $2.4 million goal before the end of the donation period. The total at this writing is more than $2.6 million. Donations are being accepted through February 15, 2012.…
Virginia Tanji, Director of the Health Sciences Library at University of Hawai’i Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, became the new Chair of the Board of Regents in 2011. Tanji has served as Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1989. She graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with a…
2011 was a milestone year filled with celebrations to mark the Library’s 175 years of public service and information innovation. People throughout NLM served on planning committees, suggested ideas on the NLM anniversary Wiki, or participated in various events. The 175th anniversary activities also engaged people in the medical and scientific communities, library and informatics…
“There’s nothing else like this,” says NIH postdoctoral fellow Alika Maunakea during a visit to the National Library of Medicine’s new exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness. The exhibition explores health and medicine from the perspective of contemporary American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. “America’s Native population has a lot…
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