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Posted by Sarah Levin-Lederer on October 13th, 2023
Posted in: Blog
Tags: National Library of Medicine, professional development, Public Health
Fall is public health conference season. When I exhibit at public health conferences, a lot of people know PubMed and MedlinePlus, but don’t know the other resources and services available from NLM and NNLM. However, some people see library in our name and either say, “I love libraries” (we do too!) or “Well, we don’t work with libraries/we’re not a library” (that’s ok).
NLM and NNLM resources and services are for any organization that works in health information, health information outreach and health information programming. Below are some of the FREE resources and services that we think are especially useful for our public health partners.
The National Library of Medicine is one of the 27 institutes of the NIH with a physical library located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. NLM also creates and maintains a wide variety of online health information resources that range from highly specialized to resources for the general public.
The Network of the National Library of Medicine is the regionally responsive outreach arm of NLM with seven regions, and national offices and centers that support the work of the network including training, evaluation and more.
NNLM R7’s offices are located at the UMass Chan Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library (Worcester, MA) and serves New England and New York.
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