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One individual and two groups from NLM have received the prestigious NIH Director's Award for outstanding service.

Elliot R. Siegel, PhD, NLM Associate Director for Health Information Programs Development and director of the International Programs Office, received the award "for leadership of NLM's contributions to the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) and scientific communications in Africa." Dr. Siegel was instrumental in defining and initiating with NLM Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, NLM's international role in MIM, which is now being developed and implemented under the leadership of Ms. Julia Royall, special expert in the Office of Health Information Programs Development. MIM partners -- the NIH and other research funders and scientists in the U.S., Europe and Japan seek to enhance the capacity of African scientists to do research in Africa. A fundamental need is to improve African scientists' access to colleagues worldwide and to electronic information resources in support of their research activities. NLM is leading this communications outreach effort, a first for the Library in sub-Saharan Africa, and has successfully connected remote malaria research sites to the Internet via satellite and microwave links in Mali, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania. An in-depth look at MIM will appear in the next issue of NEWSLINE.

Key members of the Library's MEDLINEplus team were recognized "for the development of MEDLINEplus, which has substantially increased NIH's ability to deliver authoritative health information to the public." Members of the team are: Eve-Marie LaCroix, Chief, Public Services Division (PSD); Joyce Backus, Systems Librarian, Office of the Chief, PSD; Joseph Hutchins, Chief, Applications Branch, Office of Computing and Communications Systems (OCCS); Lori Klein, Senior Electronic and Non-print Programs Coordinator, PSD; Wei Ma, Head, Software Support Section, Applications Branch, OCCS; Naomi Miller, Systems Librarian, Office of the Chief, PSD; and Robin Moore, Computer Specialist, OCCS.

The MEDLINEplus team has improved NIH's ability to provide high- quality health information to the general public by building and enhancing MEDLINEplus (medlineplus.gov), a web-based health information resource for the general public that now delivers more than 2 million pages per month. MEDLINEplus provides: integrated subject access to electronic full-text patient and consumer health information produced by all NIH components, other HHS agencies, and other authoritative sources; tailored consumer-friendly searches of MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations to peer-reviewed scientific literature; and links to self-help groups, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and clinical trials information. Finally, Philip Nielsen, Computer Specialist, OCCS and NLM Y2K Coordinator to the NIH Y2K Working Group, Rex Shuler, Computer Specialist, OCCS, and Coordinator of the NLM Desktop Y2K Working Group, and Roy Standing, former Acting Director of OCCS, received the NIH Director's Award "in recognition of outstanding guidance and technical competence, and whose efforts led to a smooth transition into the year 2000." With NLM's family of databases experiencing skyrocketing usage, making the shift from 1999 to 2000 without a break in service was crucial. The NLM computer experts were able to accomplish this goal without a hitch and were recognized for their outstanding achievement.

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