In This Issue:
"Breath
of Life" Exhibition Opens
 LOCATORplus
on the Web
Reading
Room, Rotunda Update
NGC
Web Site Goes Live
African-American
Health Issues, Voting Rights
Elizabeth
Blackwell, M.D.
Worthy
of Note
Louise
Darling Dies at 87
Lederberg's
Papers on "Profiles" Site
The
"Difficult Woman"
MLA
Time Capsule
HBCU
Explores Internet
Older
Adults and the Web
In Every Issue:
Names
in the News
Products
and Publications
NLM
in Print
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New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus, Available on the
Web
Site Will Allow Public to Search NLM's Catalog of Over 5
Million Books, Journals, Audiovisuals, Manuscripts, and More
Imagine being able to find out what items the NLM has in its vast
collection, and to find out how and where to locate them. Imagine
having links to online journals and other medical resources, and
being able to find out about materials currently on order. Well,
imagine no longer.
On April 12, 1999, Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director of the
NLM, will unveil the Library's new web catalog, LOCATORplus,
promising that it "will allow anyone with Internet access to find
out what books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and other items
are contained in the world's largest medical library."
"Many exciting new features will be available via LOCATORplus",
Dr. Lindberg added. Customers using the catalog from the Web can
search by author, MeSH subject, title, conference name, keyword and
many other specific fields, then e-mail the results to themselves.
Current receipts of both serial and monograph material will be
displayed, along with information about material which is on order
or available electronically. Hotlinks to online journals will be
available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other
resources will be available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE,
MEDLINEplus, Images from the History of Medicine, TOXNET,
HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs.
LOCATORplus is part of NLM's new integrated library system (ILS),
which was installed for in-house use in November 1998. The ILS is
being used for acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection
management, circulation and preservation. LOCATORplus is the ILS's
online public access catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for
the Library's cataloging records, replacing existing online access
methods, such as Locator, CATLINE, AVLINE and SERLINE. "The Library
now has a firm base for its many literature-based operations," said
Pamela Andre, Director of the National Agricultural Library and a
member of NLM's Board of Regents.
"The system brings together a number of previously disparate
databases, along with information formerly available only to staff,
using state-of-art information retrieval technology," said librarian
Dianne McCutcheon, who coordinated the NLM team that implemented
LOCATORplus. "We want librarians, physicians, scientists, scholars,
and students to discover the wealth of research materials available
to them. In many cases we are the only library in the U.S. to own
some of these materials." NLM's LOCATORplus can be found at:
/ locatorplus/ The site is updated daily. |
