NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FISCAL YEAR 2001 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE BETHESDA, MARYLAND i National Library of Medicine Catalog in Publication ii CONTENTS Preface .............................................................................................................................................v Office of Health Information Programs Development.....................................................................1 Planning and Analysis.........................................................................................................1 Outreach and Consumer Health ..........................................................................................2 International Programs ........................................................................................................3 Library Operations ...........................................................................................................................7 Program Planning and Management ...................................................................................7 Collection Development and Management .........................................................................8 Bibliographic Control........................................................................................................10 Information Products.........................................................................................................13 Direct User Services..........................................................................................................17 Outreach ............................................................................................................................19 Health Informatics Activities ............................................................................................25 Specialized Information Services ..................................................................................................29 Resource Building.............................................................................................................29 Resource Access................................................................................................................31 AIDS Information Services...............................................................................................32 Outreach/User Support......................................................................................................32 Lister Hill Center ...........................................................................................................................34 Goal 1: Organize health-related information and provide access to it ..............................34 Goal 2: Promote use of health information by health professionals and the public..........42 Goal 3: Strengthen the informatics infrastructure for biomedicine and health .................45 Lister Hill Center Organizational Structure ......................................................................48 National Center for Biotechnology Information ...........................................................................52 GenBank: The NIH Sequence Database ...........................................................................52 The Human Genome .........................................................................................................54 From Human to Mouse: Model Organisms for Research .................................................56 Literature Databases..........................................................................................................57 The BLAST Suite of Sequence Comparison Programs ...................................................58 Other Specialized Databases and Tools ............................................................................58 Database Access................................................................................................................62 Research ............................................................................................................................63 Outreach and Education ....................................................................................................64 Extramural Programs.........................................................................................................66 Biotechnology Information in the Future..........................................................................66 Extramural Programs .....................................................................................................................67 Resource Grants ................................................................................................................67 Training and Fellowships..................................................................................................68 Minority Support...............................................................................................................69 Research Support ..............................................................................................................70 Other Support....................................................................................................................71 SBIR/STTR (PHS 301) .....................................................................................................72 Grants Management Highlights ........................................................................................73 Summary ...........................................................................................................................73 Office of Computer and Communications Systems .......................................................................77 Executive Summary ..........................................................................................................77 Customer Services.............................................................................................................79 Desktop Support................................................................................................................79 iii Network Support ...............................................................................................................80 Systems Support................................................................................................................82 Systems Security ...............................................................................................................83 Computer Facilities ...........................................................................................................83 System Reinvention Initiative ...........................................................................................84 NLM Web Page.................................................................................................................89 Administrative Support Systems.......................................................................................90 Administration................................................................................................................................92 NLM Facilities Expansion ................................................................................................92 System Reinvention Activities..........................................................................................92 Financial Resources ..........................................................................................................94 Personnel...........................................................................................................................94 NLM Diversity Council ..................................................................................................102 NLM Organization Chart ................................................................................... (inside back cover) Appendixes 1. Regional Medical Libraries ...................................................................................................104 2. Board of Regents ...................................................................................................................105 3. Board of Scientific Counselors/LHC.....................................................................................106 4. Board of Scientific Counselors/NCBI ...................................................................................107 5. Biomedical Library Review Committee................................................................................108 6. Literature Selection Technical Review Committee ...............................................................110 7. PubMed Central National Advisory Committee....................................................................111 Tables Table 1. Growth of Collections ...............................................................................................26 Table 2. Acquisition Statistics .................................................................................................26 Table 3. Cataloging Statistics ..................................................................................................27 Table 4. Bibliographic Services...............................................................................................27 Table 5 Web Services .............................................................................................................27 Table 6.