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1991 the Regional Medical Library Network Was Expanded from Seven to Eight Regions TUTES O F HEALTH NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE PROGRAMS & SERVICES FISCAL YEAR 1 99 1 Further information about the programs described in this administrative report is available from: Office of Public Information National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 (301)496-6308 Cover: In Fiscal Year 1991 the Regional Medical Library Network was expanded from seven to eight regions. It also underwent a name change and is now designated the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (abbreviated NN/LM). The network is described on page 10 of this report. NATIONAL INSTITUTES O F HEALTH NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE PROGRAMS & SERVICES FISCAL YEAR 1 991 U.S. DEPARTMENT O F HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES • Public Health Service National Library of Medicine Catalog in Publication 2 National Library of Medicine (US) 675 M4 National Library of Medicine programs and services -- U56an 1977- - Bethesda, Md The Library, [1978- v ill, ports Report covers fiscal year Continues National Library of Medicine (US) Programs and services Vols for 1977-78 issued as DHEW publication , no (NIH) 78-256, etc , for 1979-80 as NIH publication , no 80-256, etc Vols for 1981-available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va ISSN 0163-4569 = National Library of Medicine programs and services 1 Information Services - United States - periodicals 2 Libraries, Medical - United States - periodicals I Title II Series DHEW publication , no 80-256, etc Ill PREFACE The reader of this year's report will note a number of important events. New 5- year contracts were signed with the eight Regional Medical Libraries that, together with 130 Resource Libraries (primarily at medical schools) and 3600 Local Libraries (primarily at hospitals), make up the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. In addition to supporting the basic structure and programs of the National Network, the new contracts emphasize Grateful Med® and Loansome Doc training, demon- strations, exhibits, and other activities related to outreach. The online information retrieval network continues to grow, both in number of users and breadth of services. Statistics contained in the chapter on Library Opera- tions reveal that the number of users and searches both hit an all-time high this year. Two new network capabilities were introduced in 1991. In January, the Library introduced the "clinical alert" service (described in the "Special Initiatives" chapter) designed to accelerate the speed with which potentially life-saving medical informa- tion from the NIH is disseminated to the practicing community. Another enhancement to the network was the introduction of "Loansome Doc." Loansome Doc (see Library Operations chapter) allows the Grateful Med user to place an online order to a network library for a copy of any article referenced in MEDLINE®. Among other notable events in 1991, all of which are described in this report: • A Long Range Planning Panel on Toxicology and the Environment began its work to advise the NLM about its services in that area. • The first year of operation of the new NLM Office of Health Services Re- search. • The release of a second version of the UMLS Knowledge Sources, including a prototype of the Information Sources Map. • The award of a first contract to create, in complete anatomical detail, three- dimensional representations of the male and female human body. • The introduction of a new retrieval tool called Entrez, which searches nucle- otide and protein sequence databases and MEDLINE citations in which the sequences were published. • Progress in the Library's campaign to encourage medical publishers to issue their works on acid-free ("permanent") paper is described in the Special Ini- tiatives chapter. On behalf of the staff of the National Library of Medicine, I would like to thank our many partners throughout the nation and around the world for their help. The creation and dissemination of medical knowledge is a truly international undertak- ing; working together we continue to improve our information systems for the benefit of all. A Donald A. B. Lindberg/M.D. Director IV CONTENTS Page Preface iii Calendar of Events vi Special Initiatives 1 Unified Medical Language System 1 Paper Preservation 2 NLM Outreach Activities 2 High Performance Computing and Communications 4 Library Operations 5 Planning and Management 5 Collection Development 5 Bibliographic Control 6 Network Services 8 Special Onsite Programs 10 Health Services Research 11 Specialized Information Services 17 Databases under ELHILL 17 AIDS 18 TOXNET and Its Files 19 Other Programs 20 Lister Hill Center 22 Computer Science Branch 22 Information Technology Branch 25 Communications Engineering Branch 26 Educational Technology Branch 29 Audiovisual Program Development Branch 31 National Center for Biotechnology Information 33 Database Building and Enhancement 33 Basic Research 34 Communication 35 Extramural Programs 35 Biotechnology Information in the Future 36 Extramural Programs 37 Research Grants 37 Training 39 Resource Grants 40 IAIMS 40 Publication Grants 41 Bioethics 41 Committee Activities 41 Plans for FY1992 42 Office of Computer and Communications Systems 43 Development Branch 43 Applications Services Branch 44 Systems Support Branch 44 Computer Services Branch 45 International Programs 46 Collaboration with Individual Countries 46 International MEDLARS Agreements 46 Collaboration with the W.H.0 47 Special Foreign Currency Program 47 International Meetings and Visitors 47 Administration 49 Financial Resources 49 Personnel 49 Awards 49 Equal Employment Opportunity 50 Appendixes 52 1. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms 52 2. Staff Bibliography 56 3. Extramural Programs-Supported Publications 60 4. Board of Regents 68 5. Board of Sdentific Counselors/LHC 69 6. Board of Scientific Counselors/NCBI 70 7. Biomedical Library Review Committee 71 8. Literature Selection Technical Review Committee 73 TABLES Table 1. Growth of Collections 12 Table 2. Acquisitions Statistics 12 Table 3. Cataloging Statistics 13 Table 4. Bibliographic Statistics 13 Table 5. Circulation Statistics 13 Table 6. Online Searches 14 Table 7. Offline Searches 15 Table 8. Reference Services 15 Table 9. History of Medicine Activities 16 Table 10. Extramural Grants and Contracts Program 42 Table 11. International MEDLARS Centers 47 Table 12. Financial Resources and Allocations 49 Table 13. Staff 50 VI CALENDAR OF EVENTS—FISCAL YEAR 1991 1990 Sept-Dec: "Public Health in New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century" (exhibit) Oct 1: Network awards contracts to 30 "unaffiliated" health professionals Oct: NCBI initiates Technical Reports Series Oct: Friends publish NLM calendar Oct 2: Lecture: DNA Regulatory Sequences & Local DNA Structure—D. Ghosh, R. Nussinov Oct 3: Florence Mahoney Lecture by A. Sabin Oct 12:President signs PL 101-423 establishing a national policy on permanent paper Oct 31: IMPAG (International MEDLARS Policy Advisory Group) meets at NLM Nov: NLM bookmark wins "Blue Pencil" Award Nov 16: Conference on improving NLM's information services for hospitals Nov 19:Secretary Sullivan names R. Anderson, L. DeNardis and R. Kahn to Board of Regents Nov 20:NLM Honor Awards Ceremony Dec 3: Lecture: "Molecular Scene Analysis,"—}. Glasgow and S. Fortier Dec 5: Lecture: "Seeing Diseases: Visual Sources and the Meaning of History—S. Gilman 1991 Jan-Apr: "Dentistry in Paris, 1830-1860: Georges Fattet and His Contemporaries" (exhibit) Jan 18:Transmission of first Clinical Alert over MEDLARS Feb 14: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Meeting Feb 19:Lecture: African American Perception of the Constitution—Rep. Major Owens Feb 28: Board of Regents Mar 5: LHC seminar: Mass Storage Systems and Technology—Sanjay Ranade Mar 6: Biomedical Library Review Committee Meeting Mar 13:Lecture: Another Kind of Glory: Black Doctors in the Civil War—R. Davis Mar 15:Lecture: Some Famous Persons with Visual Problems—F. Blodi Mar 28:Lecture: Nurturing Tradition, Fostering Change—Rep. Constance A. Morella Apr: Grateful Med Mac 1.5 version released Apr 5: Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting, NCBI Apr 25:Training Directors Meeting May-Sept: "A Decade of Historical Acquisitions at the NLM, 1981-1990" (exhibit) May: Phase I of Loansome Doc released May 1: RML Network renamed National Network of Libraries of Medicine May 1: Eighth region established for New England May 2: Board of Scientific Counselors Meeting, LHC May 6: Lecture: NIH: The Crucible Years (1930-1948)—D. Fredrickson Jun 10:Lecture: High Performance Computing and Communications—A. Baratz Jun 13: Literature Selection Technical Review Committee Meeting Jun 20:New NIH director, Bernadine Healy, M.D., addresses NLM staff Jun 20: Board meeting of Friends of the National Library of Medicine Jun 20: Board of Regents Meeting Jun 26:Biomedical Library Review Committee Meeting Jul 3: Lecture: BiologicalQueries Using a Transcription Factors Database—D. Ghosh Aug 7: LHC lecture: Fuzzy Logic—Lotfi Zadeh Aug 15:First meeting of Toxicology Information Outreach Panel held at NLM SPECIAL INITIATIVES Unified Medical Language System ents are informed that future editions of the Knowledge Sources may differ substantially in content and format. The goal of the Unified Medical Language System Information received to date indicates that the (UMLS®) project is to give practitioners and researchers Knowledge Sources are being applied to a wide variety easy access to machine-readable information from di- of projects including linking patient records to relevant verse sources,
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