In This Issue:
"ClinicalTrials.gov"
Launched
49
High-Tech Projects
New
Version of PubMed
Marcetich
Named Head of Index Section
New
Policy on Clinical Alerts
NLM
Long Range Plan in Place
New
Regents Named
"Racism,
Sexism and Poverty are Hazardous to Our Health"
Lakota
Officials and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Leaders Visit Library
MEDLINEplus
Adds Medical Encyclopedia
"PubMed
Central" Debuts
NLM
"Adopts" D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Senior High School
Hospital
and Health Administration Index
Images
from the History of Medicine Rescanned
NLM's
"Breath of Life" Exhibit Extended Through March 2001
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Names in the News
David H. Serlin, PhD, Program Historian for Digital
Manuscripts in the History of Medicine Division, has been selected
as the first recipient of the Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome
Fund Career Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Science.
The award, in honor of the late Jack D. Pressman, is given to a
young historian to assist in turning his or her dissertation into a
book. David's book, Not Who We Used to Be: Remaking the American
Body in Cold War Culture, is under contract with the University of
Chicago Press.
Maria Farkas retired from the Index Section in February,
after over 36 years at NLM. Until she became a U.S. citizen, she
taught languages at the university level in Washington, D.C. She has
a Ph.D. in linguistics and was an NLM indexer and reviser of
journals in German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian,
Danish, French and her native Hungarian. She also translated
numerous foreign language letters received at the Library. In 1992
she received the NLM Director's Award for her linguistic and
indexing skills.
Naomi C. Broering, MLS, MA, has received the Winifred
Sewell Prize for Innovation in Information Technologies in
Biomedical and Life Sciences Librarianship from the Special Library
Association. Broering, the former president of the Medical Library
Association and a frequent consultant on NLM programs, is currently
editor of the Friends of the NLM Update, an electronic newsletter,
and cofounder of B&C Consultants, La Jolla, California, a
business specializing in management and digital library solutions.
She is an Adjunct Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and at the
Texas Woman's University Graduate School of Library and Information
Studies.
NLM Board Member Joshua Lederberg, PhD, received the
prestigious Morris F. Collen Award for his lifetime achievements at
the 1999 meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association
(AMIA).
Susan E. Hauser, PhD, an Electronics Engineer in NLM's
Communications Engineering Branch, has been elevated to the grade of
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). Senior Member is the highest professional
grade for which application may be made and requires experience
reflecting professional maturity. Hauser joined the NLM staff in
1985.
Following his March testimony before the U.S. House
Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies, NLM Director Donald A. B. Lindberg,
MD (right), presented Subcommittee Chairman John Edward Porter
(R-IL) with a special gift. The Lucite paperweight enclosed a PubMed
citation to an article in the journal The Anatomical Record,
entitled "A true champion of basic biomedical research: a
conversation with Rep. John E. Porter, United States House of
Representatives." The gift was given as a tribute to Porter's
distinguished service to the NIH scientific community. Chairman
Porter announced that he will retire at the end of this session of
the Congress.
Former NLM Board Member (1966-70) and Chair (1969-70) Alfred
R. Zipf died January 1st at the age of 82 in Oroville,
California. Zipf was instrumental in the development of NLM's
computer systems and, during his Board service, "moved us into the
online world," as NLM Deputy Director Kent A. Smith observed. He was
a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management
Program and majored in engineering at UCLA. He joined Bank of
America for what was to be a stellar 40-year career. Zipf is
considered one of the nation's pioneers in banking technology and
information management systems. In honor of his many achievements,
the Council on Library and Information Resources recently
established the A. R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management, to
honor graduate students who show exceptional promise for leadership
and technical achievement in information management. |
