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NLM Tours Now Available by Appointment Only through January 2016
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will offer tours of the Library by appointment only now through the end of January 2016. The decision to temporarily suspend the daily 1:30 tour resulted from an analysis of visitor statistics from the last five years. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - December 7, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Releases New Health Literacy Tool Shed Website
The Health Literacy Tool Shed is a free, user-friendly, unique, curated online database of more than 100 empirically validated health literacy instruments. The Tool Shed serves as an interactive, one-stop shop where researchers use provided filters to select a health literacy research instrument. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - December 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Launches "For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform"
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a traveling banner exhibition made available free of charge to cultural institutions across the country, and an online adaptation of For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - November 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Announces 2015 AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded six HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects in September 2015 in the 22nd round of the program. NLM has continued its HIV/AIDS-related outreach efforts to community-based organizations, patient advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, departments of health, and libraries. This program provides support to design local programs for improving information access for HIV/AIDS patients and the affected community as well as their caregivers. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - October 29, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Applications Being Accepted for 2016 NLM Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course
NLM, in partnership with Georgia Regents University (GRU), is pleased to open applications for the Spring 2016 and Fall 2016 NLM Georgia Biomedical Informatics course. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - October 14, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

HHS Launches Redesigned Online Radiation Treatment Resource
Health care professionals now can easily find reliable guidance to help diagnose and treat patients who have been exposed to radiation. The first major redesign of the Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) website since it launched in 2007 is available at http://www.remm.nlm.gov/. REMM gives health care personnel key information about the diagnosis and treatment of radiation injuries and access to interactive clinical tools and data. The site was developed by two agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) and th...
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - October 8, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Announces Inaugural Annual Donald Lindberg and Donald King Lecture, October 7
The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the first annual Donald A.B. Lindberg & Donald West King Lecture on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 1:00 PM in Masur Auditorium, Building 10. The inaugural lecture, which honors recently retired NLM Director Dr. Lindberg and former NLM Deputy Director of Research and Education Dr. King, is titled, “Integrating Multi-scale Data for Biomedical Discovery and Clinical Implementation.” It will be given by Russell Altman, MD, PhD, of Stanford University. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 30, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

AIDSource: A Redesigned, Mobile-Optimized HIV/AIDS Information Web Site from the National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine’s Web portal for HIV/AIDS information has been redesigned and given a new name. The new Web site, AIDSource, offers access to a comprehensive collection of HIV/AIDS-related information resources that are reviewed and selected by expert information specialists and librarians. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 28, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

National Library of Medicine Announces IHTSDO Advisory Group Members
NLM is pleased to announce the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has selected the members for the newly formed Advisory Groups (AGs). The AGs are established to conduct specific activities that contribute to the fulfillment of the Management Team's responsibilities or the organization's mandate. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

National Library of Medicine Adds Papers of Congressman John E. Fogarty to Profiles in Science
John Edward Fogarty (1913–1967) was an American legislator who became known as "Mr. Public Health" for his outstanding advocacy of federal funding for medical research, health education, and health care services. Now available from the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a constituent institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is an extensive selection from the John E. Fogarty Papers at Providence College, on the National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science® Web site. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Register Now for 2015 DailyMed/RxNorm Jamboree: Workshop Government Drug Data Put to Use
NLM’s 3rd annual Jamboree will take place September 24, 2015 at Lister Hill Auditorium on the NLM campus in Bethesda, MD. Speakers from the Federal government (ONC, CMS, NLM), industry (First Data Bank), academia (University of New Mexico, University of Pittsburgh), pharmacy standards groups (American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (ASHP), United States Pharmacopeia (USP), and others will present. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 23, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM Launches "Confronting Violence, Improving Women’s Lives"
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a special display, a traveling banner exhibition made available free of charge to cultural institutions across the country and an online adaptation of Confronting Violence, Improving Women's Lives. The special display will be open to the public in the NLM History of Medicine Division (HMD) Reading Room on the first floor of the National Library of Medicine, Building 38 on the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the National Institutes of Health September 17, 2015-August 19, 2016. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - September 8, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

New NLM Resource for Nursing Standards and Interoperability
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released a new web page - Nursing Resources for Standards and Interoperability. The page is a resource for nurses, students, informaticians and anyone interested in nursing terminologies for systems development. It describes the role of SNOMED CT and Laboratory Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) in implementing Meaningful Use in the United States, specifically for the nursing and care domain. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - August 28, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NIH Posts Vacancy Announcement for Position of NLM Director
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland has posted the vacancy announcement for the position of National Library of Medicine (NLM) Director. Applications will be reviewed starting October 20, 2015 and will be accepted until the position is filled. NIH and NLM will be publicizing the vacancy widely. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - August 20, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

NLM and National Endowment for the Humanities Reaffirm Cooperation on Initiatives of Common Interest
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have reaffirmed their partnership, originally established in 2012, following on the visit of NEH Chairman William D. Adams to the NLM. The agencies will continue to develop initiatives that bring together specialists from the humanities, medicine, and information sciences to share expertise and develop new research agendas. (Source: News from the National Library of Medicine)
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - August 19, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news