Southcentral Foundation, led by former NLM Board of Regents member Katherine Gottlieb, has been selected to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award announced on November 16 by the US Secretary of Commerce. “The Foundation is the only health entity in the US to have won this award twice,” said Gottlieb, president of Southcentral Foundation. “It…
When Dr. Frederick “Skip” M. Burkle, Jr. delivered the 2012 Leiter Lecture he started with an apology. “It’s not that uplifting,” he said of the topic of his talk, “but it is all quite accurate.” Dr. Burkle addressed challenging public health issues, and the potential for enhanced information management, in a talk titled “Future Humanitarian Crises: Challenges to…
It was a week like no other at the National Library of Medicine. For five days in May, people brought their family treasures to NLM to learn how to protect and preserve them. They came with photos, books, a family Bible, an American flag too old to have 50 stars, and an evening gown worn…
The annual meeting and exhibition of the Medical Library Association (MLA) will take place in Washington, DC, May 21-26. Billed as “the premier event in health sciences information,” the session will be held at the Washington Hilton, at 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW. The theme of MLA ’10 is “Reflect and Connect.” Staff from NLM and its…
March is Red Cross Month. The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton and others. It is one of the 186 private, national societies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, formed in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1863 by Henry Dunant, which offer neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war.…
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