RML directors meeting: minutes Bethesda, MD. NN/LM-MR marketing research study: research findings. National Network of Libraries of Medicine MidContinental Region and Culver & Associates. Outreach activities of the National Library of Medicine: a five-year review. Wallingford KT, Ruffin AB, Ginter KA, Spann ML, Johnson FE, Dutcher GA, Mehnert R, Nash DL, Bridgers JW, Lyon BJ, Siegel ER, Roderer NK. Located at: History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD Acc. Bethesda, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, National Institutes of Health 1989. Improving health professionals’ access to information: challenges and opportunities for the National Library of Medicine. National Library of Medicine (US), DeBakey ME, eds. H.J.Res.395 - a joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1988, and for other purposes, Pub. Use of MEDLINE by physicians for clinical problem solving. Lindberg DA, Siegel ER, Rapp BA, Wallingford KT, Wilson SR. MEDLINE on CD-ROM: National Library of Medicine evaluation forum Bethesda MD. (Available from.)Īn act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a program of grants to assist in meeting the need for adequate medical library services and facilities, Pub. The nation’s health information network: history of the Regional Medical Library Program, 1965–1985. Speaker, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MDīunting A. This article has been approved for the Medical Library Association’s Independent Reading Program. The concluding section discusses the many challenges that NNLM staff faced as they transformed the network from a system that served mainly academic medical researchers to a larger, denser organization that offers health information resources to everyone. This article traces the major trends in the network’s development since then: reconceiving the Regional Medical Library staff as a “field force” for developing, marketing, and distributing a growing number of National Library of Medicine (NLM) products and services subsequent expansion of outreach to health professionals who are unaffiliated with academic medical centers, particularly those in public health the advent of the Internet during the 1990s, which brought the migration of NLM and NNLM resources and services to the World Wide Web, and a mandate to encourage and facilitate Internet connectivity in the network and the further expansion of the NLM and NNLM mission to include providing consumer health resources to satisfy growing public demand. The network’s first twenty years were documented in a detailed 1987 history by Alison Bunting, AHIP, FMLA. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), established as the Regional Medical Library Program in 1965, has a rich and remarkable history. National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Regional Medical Libraries, National Library of Medicine Abstract History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD