Thanks to new search software, users of the History of Medicine Division’s Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program can now browse over 190 existing EAD (encoded archival descriptions) collection guides. Plans call for adding 300 more EADs, many of which have never been described beyond their catalog records. The new search and delivery platform is based…
The Nursing Home Screener, an NLM project to help people locate and screen nursing homes on-line for quality, won a Distinguished Paper Award at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2008 symposium in November. It is being developed for older Americans looking for a home for themselves or spouse, and for social workers, nurses, physicians…
In November, Dianna Adams was appointed head of the Desktop Services Section, Systems Technology Branch, Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS). She takes over from Rex Shuler, who served as acting head for many years. Prior to joining the NLM, Adams was infrastructure operations manager for Lockheed Martin, where she directed a 170-member team…
Ginny Roth, image collection manager of George Mason University’s university relations department, has been appointed curator of the NLM Prints and Photographs collection, beginning in December. She has a master’s degree in library and information science from the Catholic University of America, and extensive experience working with archival, fine art, photographic and audiovisual holdings such…
An international team of scientists including researchers from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a part of the National Library of Medicine, have discovered a new syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), a rare disorder in which children lack sufficient infection-fighting white cells. The scientists also identified the genetic cause of the syndrome:…
