Special Tours for NIH Festivalgoers
NLM’s History of Medicine Division is offering special tours for the 2016 NIH Research Festival on September 14-16, from 9 to 10 am, in Building 38 across the street from the Natcher Conference Center. We look forward to sharing highlights of our historical collections and resources. Our current display Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives tells… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - September 8, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
180 Years Old
We’re not planning a party this year, but the National Library of Medicine turns 180 years old in 2016. From our beginning in 1836 as a few leather-bound books in the library of the US Army Surgeon General’s office, we became the world’s largest biomedical library. We’re so large that as of today, our most… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - September 1, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
A Quick Q & A with NCBI Biocurators
In this new, occasional feature we call Quick Q&A, NLM staff share a bit about why they’re motivated and inspired. We also asked them to add something surprising about themselves. For our first Quick Q&A, we reached six scientists in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) who work in the Conserved Domain Database (CDD)… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 25, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Sum7 Source Type: blogs
National Library of Medicine Welcomes New Director Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, today begins her service as director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of NIH. She is the first woman and the first nurse to serve in that role. She will be publicly sworn in as NLM Director at a ceremony at the Library on Monday, September… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 15, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
A to Z with Medical History
From an Arabic manuscript from the year 1094 to social media about Zika, NLM’s History of Medicine Division (HMD) works to ensure that historical and current treasures are available to anyone who’s curious. The NIH Catalyst recently explored the nature of that work, with two stories about HMD’s efforts to preserve and share those treasures–and… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 10, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: NLM Departments Source Type: blogs
What ’s in a Name?
It was 60 years ago today that the National Library of Medicine got its current name. And yes, it took an act of Congress. On August 3, 1956, the National Library of Medicine Act, an amendment to Title III of the Public Health Service Act, placed the Armed Forces Medical Library under the Public Health… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - August 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
Harry Potter: Magic, Myth and Happy Birthday!
Two famous people, one real and one fictitious, both tightly connected to the other, share a birthday on July 31. J.K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, was born (for real) on this day in 1965. Harry James Potter, her iconic best-selling creation, was fictitiously born 15 years later in 1980. The Harry Potter series,… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 31, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Exhibitions Source Type: blogs
Summer Issue of NIH MedlinePlus Now Online
This quarterly publication of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine brings accurate and timely information on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH turns “discovery into health.” This issue covers— how a top chef handles her medical condition why a clothing designer says it’s fashionable to get screened for… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Publications Source Type: blogs
From Ebola to Zika: Saving Historical Resources
This is a story about the risk of loss. Rotting links, drifting content, and challenging content types that are difficult to capture threaten to make material on the web disappear. This is unacceptable when we’re talking about the story of global health events like the recent Ebola outbreak and today’s Zika virus. Documentation of what… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 20, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Programs & Services Web Collecting Source Type: blogs
Long Distance Learning Goes the Distance at NLM
“Hey, Alaska. Welcome to the United States,” said a high school student in Los Angeles to a student in Alaska. “Welcome to the other half,” quipped the Alaskan student. Cultural sensitivity and geography lessons are just a couple of extras to come out of NLM’s Distance Learning Outreach Program. What started as a “what if… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 14, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Programs & Services Source Type: blogs
The Road to Reproducible Biomedical Research?
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other speakers at a recent conference sponsored by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine suggested the reproducibility of biomedical research might improve if scientists could agree on a definition of “reproducibility” and if more information about preclinical trial research findings was available… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
PubMed Celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
PubMed was first released two decades ago in January 1996 as an experimental database under the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) retrieval system. The word “experimental” was dropped from the website in April 1997, and on June 26, 1997, a Capitol Hill press conference officially announced free MEDLINE access via PubMed. See an outline of the… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - June 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Products Source Type: blogs
School May Be Out for Summer, but Science Is Always In
Just before the end of the school year, hundreds of middle and high school students from the Washington, DC area gathered at NIH for the National Library of Medicine’s third annual Science Pathfinders Day. Through demonstrations, hands-on activities, and speeches, students got to experience what it might be like to work in a lab, a… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - June 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events MiM Source Type: blogs
H ōkūleʽa Sails Worldwide with Healing Messages
“Every journey begins with a dream, a vision that can unite others,” said Nainoa Thompson, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and Pwo (expert) navigator of the Hōkūleʽa. “When people come around a set of shared values, they can achieve extraordinary things.” Thompson recounted the dream of the double-hulled voyaging canoe Hōkūleʽa, from its original… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - June 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
Hōkūleʽa Sails Worldwide with Healing Messages
“Every journey begins with a dream, a vision that can unite others,” said Nainoa Thompson, president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and pwo (expert) navigator of the Hōkūleʽa. “When people come around a set of shared values, they can achieve extraordinary things.” Thompson recounted the dream of the double-hulled voyaging canoe Hōkūleʽa, from its original… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - June 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
