{"id":10853,"date":"2014-11-07T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:02:37","slug":"dr-lindberg-to-retire","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dr-lindberg-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lindberg to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 290px\" width=\"295\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/11\/dlsemiahmooSmall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10871 size-full\" src=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/11\/dlsemiahmooSmall1.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured from left to right, Dr. Donald Lindberg witnesses the Semiahmoo blessing of NLM's totem with Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen and Chairman of the Lummi Nation Cliford Cultee in September of 2011.\" width=\"270\" height=\"181\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Pictured from left to right, Dr. Donald Lindberg witnesses the Semiahmoo blessing of NLM&#8217;s totem with Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen and Chairman of the Lummi Nation Cliford Cultee in September of 2011.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) since 1984, has announced he will retire at the end of March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Library Association named Dr. Lindberg as an honorary member in Spring 2014, noting: \u201cHealth professionals, health information practitioners, and the general public have benefitted immeasurably from enhancements to the databases, products, and services developed at NLM under Lindberg\u2019s exceptional leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\u00a0issued a statement \u00a0(<a title=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/director\/11062014_statement_lindberg.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/director\/11062014_statement_lindberg.htm\">http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about\/director\/11062014_statement_lindberg.htm<\/a>) about\u00a0Dr. Lindberg\u2019s innumerable contributions as NLM\u2019s distinguished director.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, his support and interest in expanding the scope of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN\/LM) has resulted in important partnerships with minority serving institutions, tribal and community-based organizations, and the public health community.\u00a0As one example, NLM\u00a0commissioned Master Carver Jewell Praying Wolf James, a member of the House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Indian Nation, located in Bellingham, Washington, to carve a healing totem, which\u00a0was transported on a truck across the United States, stopping for tribal blessings on reservations in 13 states.\u00a0 Its permanent home is now at the NLM.\u00a0 The totem\u00a0was a dramatic focal point of the exhibition<em>, Native Voices: Native People\u2019s Concepts of Health and Illness<\/em>, which opened to the public October 6, 2011, and will be traveling to each region of the NN\/LM beginning in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured from left to right, Dr. Donald Lindberg witnesses the Semiahmoo blessing of NLM&#8217;s totem with Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen and Chairman of the Lummi Nation Cliford Cultee in September of 2011. 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Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) since 1984, has announced he will retire at the end&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dr-lindberg-to-retire\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-regional-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15612,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions\/15612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}