It’s Women’s History Month. To celebrate, we’re profiling 12 women who were pioneers in the field of health and medicine—with a twist. We’re writing about them in first person as if they had access to today’s news. How many can you identify? 1. The Founder I was a mother of two daughters. But when it…
Director of NCBI, Dr. Jim Ostell called his journey to NCBI “a long and winding and strange road.” Part one of this circuitous path, which NLM in Focus published last week, included college classes he never thought he’d need, counter-cultural days, studying the anatomy of the cricket, borrowing a secretary’s computer because it was the…
Meeting in Toronto, more than 1,100 medical librarians, including more than 35 from NLM, gathered in May for the Medical Library Association’s 116th annual meeting and exhibition. The joint meeting with the Canadian Health Libraries Association and the International Clinical Librarian Conference attracted librarians from around the world. Meeting highlights included the John P. McGovern…
National Library of Medicine Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD retired after 31 years heading the world’s largest medical library. He was the library’s longest serving director and one of the longest-serving leaders at the National Institutes of Health, the library’s parent organization. Dr. Lindberg’s last day on the job was March 31, 2015. The day…
On Wednesday, May 14, leaders in medicine, science, IT and librarianship convened at the Natcher Center on the NIH campus to reflect on the contributions the National Library of Medicine has made over the last 30 years, and help chart its course for the future. They were drawn to “The National Library of Medicine, 1984…
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