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Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MLA 50 th Anniversary Meeting Saturday, October 19, 2002. Working on the Next 50 Years: The NLM Update. Betsy L. Humphreys, MLS Associate Director for Library Operations National Institutes of Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Mid-Atlantic Chapter of MLA 50th Anniversary Meeting Saturday, October 19, 2002 Working on the Next 50 Years: The NLM Update Betsy L. Humphreys, MLS Associate Director for Library Operations National Institutes of Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
MAC’s Illustrious Founders Scott Adams (1947) NIH Library Estelle Brodman, Ph.D (1951) Army Medical Library Ida Marian Robinson (1964) University of Maryland
NLM Strategic Plan - 2000-2005 • Organize and provide access to health-related information • Encourage use by health professionals and the public • Strengthen the informatics infrastructure for biomedicine and health • Conduct and support informatics research
NLM Collection Development Manual • Major review and revision underway • Multidisciplinary outside advisory committee includes: • Alison Bunting (also chair, NLM Board of Regents) • Jonathan Eldredge • Send any thoughts to: • Duane Arenales, Chief, Technical Services Division, duane_arenales@nlm.nih.gov
~3,300 full text journals and many other resources
Current size: ~ 72,000 articles from ~80 journals • Recent additions: • All American Society of Microbiology Journals • Pilot project: Scan and OCR complete backfiles of participating journals, including BMLA.
The Archiving Forum: preserving digital content (and the opportunities it holds) for the Long Haul • Joint NLM-American Medical Publishers Associaton (AMPA) event • March 4, 2003, Philadelphia (in conjunction with AMPA annual meeting) • Limited size, so therefore invitational • Will be broadcast via the Internet
FY 2002 3,257 DOCLINE libraries 3,038,934 requests; 91% filled
Easy Electronic Access vsHospital Security Concerns(in the HIPAA Era) NLM and the RMLS are seeking best practices to promote.
NLM Strategic Plan - 2000-2005 • Organize and provide access to health-related information • Encourage use by health professionals and the public • Strengthen the informatics infrastructure for biomedicine and health • Conduct and support informatics research
NLM Customer Service -- ~ 50,000 remote inquiries in FY 2002 • Current priorities: • Replace CustQ with Seibel software • Greater ability to analyze inquiries, provide timely feedback to product developers • Potential use by RMLs • Implement NativeMinds “Vrep”
NLM Strategic Plan - 2000-2005 • Organize and provide access to health-related information • Encourage use by health professionals and the public • Strengthen the informatics infrastructure for biomedicine and health • Conduct and support informatics research
Librarian recruitment, education, and career development • Scholarships for MLS students from minority groups – via MLA and ALA • Post-masters NLM Associate Fellowship program • Opportunities for practicing health sciences librarians • Leadership development • New NLM CE courses
YOU are our best recruiters … 2002/03 NLM Associate Fellows
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NLM Strategic Plan - 2000-2005 • Organize and provide access to health-related information • Encourage use by health professionals and the public • Strengthen the informatics infrastructure for biomedicine and health • Conduct and support informatics research
Gene Indexing: an article from Nature Neuroscience • Indexers create link between article PMID and mouse Myo7a gene record in LocusLink • Indexers add descriptive statement to mouse Myo7a gene record in LocusLink: “participates in anchoring and holding membrane-bound elements to the actin core of the stereocilium”