{"id":12943,"date":"2015-10-22T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:08:57","slug":"happy-50th-anniversary-nnlm","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/happy-50th-anniversary-nnlm\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th Anniversary, NN\/LM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/10\/NNLM_50th_Anniversary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12945\" src=\"\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/10\/NNLM_50th_Anniversary-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"NNLM_50th_Anniversary\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"15\" \/><\/a>On October 22, 1965, the Medical Library Assistance Act was passed authorizing the National Library of Medicine (NLM)\u00a0to provide grant funding to develop a national system of regional medical libraries.\u00a0This network, called\u00a0the Regional Medical Library\u00a0(RML)\u00a0Network, changed its name to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN\/LM) in 1991.\u00a0Today the\u00a0~6,400-member\u00a0NN\/LM, considered a field force in NLM&#8217;s outreach efforts,\u00a0promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 50th Anniversary, NN\/LM!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22, 1965, the Medical Library Assistance Act was passed authorizing the National Library of Medicine (NLM)\u00a0to provide grant funding to develop a national system of regional medical libraries.\u00a0This network, called\u00a0the Regional Medical Library\u00a0(RML)\u00a0Network, changed its name to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN\/LM) in 1991.\u00a0Today the\u00a0~6,400-member\u00a0NN\/LM, considered a field force in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/happy-50th-anniversary-nnlm\/\">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-12943","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\/12943","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=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15607,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/15607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}