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| United States National Library of Medicine | |
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 Library in 1999 | |
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| 38°59′45″N 77°05′56″W / 38.995951°N 77.098832°W | |
| Location | Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
| Type | Medical library |
| Established | 1836[1] (as the Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army)[2] |
| Reference to legal mandate | Public Law 941 – August 3, 1956, an amendment to Title III of the Public Health Service Act |
| Branch of | National Institutes of Health |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | books, journals, manuscripts, images, and multimedia; genomic, chemical, toxicological, and environmental data; drug information; clinical trials data; health data standards; software; and consumer health information |
| Size | 27.8 million (2015) |
| Criteria for collection | Acquiring, organizing, and preserving the world's scholarly biomedical literature |
| Access and use | |
| Access requirements | Open to the public |
| Circulation | 309,817 (2015) |
| Other information | |
| Budget | US$341,119,000[3] |
| Director | Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN PhD[4] |
| Employees | 1,741 |
| Website | nlm.nih.gov |
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.[5]
Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences, including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.
The current acting director of the NLM is Stephen Sherry.[4]
- ^ "A Brief History of NLM". National Library of Medicine. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
- ^ "Our Milestones. Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine National Library of Medicine. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
- ^ "H.R. 3020 – Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016". 114th Congress. 2015.
- ^ a b "Passing the NLM Torch: Welcome to Dr. Steve Sherry!". NLM Musings from the Mezzanine. October 4, 2023.
- ^ DeBakey ME (1991). "The National Library of Medicine. Evolution of a premier information center". JAMA. 266 (9): 1252–58. doi:10.1001/jama.266.9.1252. PMID 1870251.