175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the United States of America, celebrates in 2011 its 175th anniversary. This Library, the largest biomedical library in the world, has a proud and rich history serving the health community and the public, especially since its transfer to the National Institu...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cabello C,Felipe
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2011
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900001
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:scielo:S0034-98872011000900001
record_format dspace
spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720110009000012011-11-17175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiraciónCabello C,Felipe Libraries, medical National Institutes of Health (U.S.) National Library of Medicine (U.S.) The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the United States of America, celebrates in 2011 its 175th anniversary. This Library, the largest biomedical library in the world, has a proud and rich history serving the health community and the public, especially since its transfer to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1968. It holds 17 million publications in 150 languages, and has an important collection of ancient and modern historical books as well as original publications of Vesalius and other founders of biomedicine. Its modern document collections illustrate the progress of medical sciences. These collections include laboratory notes from many scientists whose work forms the foundations of contemporary life sciences. The Library also provides several services for health research and for the public, including databases and services such as MedLine and BLAST. The NLM constantly strives to fulfill the information needs of its customers, whether scientists or the public at large. For example, as the Hispanic population of the Unites States has increased in recent years, the NLM has made larger and larger amounts of data available in Spanish to fulfill the health information needs of this population. NLM programs train professionals in library science and biomedical informatics and link biomedical libraries of 18 academic centers throughout the United States. The NLM funds competitive grants for training at the Library, organizing short instruction courses about library science and informatics, and writing books on health related matters including the history of medicine and public health. The NLM is managed and maintained by an outstanding and farsighted group of professionals and dedicated support staff. Their focus on serving and reaching both the biomedical community and the public at large has been crucial to its development into a world icon of biomedical sciences, information technology and the humanities.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.139 n.9 20112011-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900001es10.4067/S0034-98872011000900001
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Libraries, medical
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
spellingShingle Libraries, medical
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Cabello C,Felipe
175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
description The National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the United States of America, celebrates in 2011 its 175th anniversary. This Library, the largest biomedical library in the world, has a proud and rich history serving the health community and the public, especially since its transfer to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1968. It holds 17 million publications in 150 languages, and has an important collection of ancient and modern historical books as well as original publications of Vesalius and other founders of biomedicine. Its modern document collections illustrate the progress of medical sciences. These collections include laboratory notes from many scientists whose work forms the foundations of contemporary life sciences. The Library also provides several services for health research and for the public, including databases and services such as MedLine and BLAST. The NLM constantly strives to fulfill the information needs of its customers, whether scientists or the public at large. For example, as the Hispanic population of the Unites States has increased in recent years, the NLM has made larger and larger amounts of data available in Spanish to fulfill the health information needs of this population. NLM programs train professionals in library science and biomedical informatics and link biomedical libraries of 18 academic centers throughout the United States. The NLM funds competitive grants for training at the Library, organizing short instruction courses about library science and informatics, and writing books on health related matters including the history of medicine and public health. The NLM is managed and maintained by an outstanding and farsighted group of professionals and dedicated support staff. Their focus on serving and reaching both the biomedical community and the public at large has been crucial to its development into a world icon of biomedical sciences, information technology and the humanities.
author Cabello C,Felipe
author_facet Cabello C,Felipe
author_sort Cabello C,Felipe
title 175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
title_short 175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
title_full 175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
title_fullStr 175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
title_full_unstemmed 175 años de la National Library of Medicine, de los EE.UU. de NA: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
title_sort 175 años de la national library of medicine, de los ee.uu. de na: un tesoro científico y cultural digno de admiración
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2011
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000900001
work_keys_str_mv AT cabellocfelipe 175anosdelanationallibraryofmedicinedeloseeuudenauntesorocientificoyculturaldignodeadmiracion
_version_ 1718436584933556224