NLM News 1994 November-December; Vol. 49, No. 6

	The NLM News is published 6 times a year by the National Library of 
Medicine (National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services).  Beginning with Vol. 49, No. 1, the NLM News is avaiable via 
the Internet.  To access, ftp to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as 
anonymous.  Use your e-mail address as the password.  

	In addition to electronic access, the printed NLM News is mailed 
without charge to institutions and individuals interested in health 
sciences communications.  For further information, contact NLM's Office of 
Public Information (8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894); e-mail 
address: publicinfo@occshost.nlm.nih.gov.  
NLM Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.
Chief, Office of Public Information, Robert B. Mehnert,
Editor, Roger L. Gilkeson; e-mail address: 
Roger_Gilkeson@occshost.nlm.nih.gov 

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Contents:

o Message from the Director

o NLM Demonstrates Products & Services to Local Writers

o New Members Named to NLM Board of Regents

o NLM Unveils "The Visible Man"

o Sickle Cell Disease Lecture Featured during African-American History 
Month

o Dr. DeBakey Winse Sigma Xi's Proctor Award

o Advanced Computing & Communications Video Available

o New Access Methods for NLM Publications

o Revolutionary Medicine in Post-Revolution Paris [Exhibit]

o Publications

o NLM Classification, Fifth Edition, 1994

o Video from Charen Celebration Available

o NLM in Print

o Humphrey Elected AAAS Fellow

o NLM Grant Awards

o Monograph & Serial Gaps

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Message from the Director

	In my decade at the National Library of Medicine I don't remember a 
year in which we made more exciting progress in advancing health 
information services.  

	Some of the 1994 highlights:

January - For the first time NLM presented its annual update to National 
Network of Libraries of Medicine members via satellite.

January - The Library announced free access to its AIDS-related databases, 
resulting in increased use by community organizations from coast to coast.

April - Ten awards for medically related High Performance Computing and 
Communications projects announced by the Library, bring to $26 million the 
total awarded for this purpose.

April - First NLM full text retrieval service ("HSTAT") offered for health 
services research information (clinical practice guidelines and NIH 
consensus development statements).

September - NLM, along with the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research 
(AHCPR), announced five new awards totaling $1.5 million for developing 
computerized medical records.

October - the Long-Range Planning Panel on the Education and Training of 
Health Sciences Librarians completed its deliberations.

November - The Library introduced the "Visible Man"--a 15 billion byte, 3-
dimensional anatomy dataset--at a major medical meeting in Chicago, with 
much attendant electronic and print press coverage.

December - The number of users codes for NLM's national online network 
approached 100,000; network members searched the databases almost 7 
million times in FY 1994, a new high.

	Almost everything the Library does depends on the cooperation and 
goodwill of those outside the institution--the 4100 members of the 
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, the Congress, the thousands of 
scientists and health professionals who use MEDLINE for the public good, 
other government agencies, grantees, and contractors.  On behalf of the 
NLM's superb staff, I would like to wish all a satisfying and successful 
New Year.

----Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D. 

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NLM Demonstrates Products & Services to Local Writers

NLM Director Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., hosted a joint meeting of the 
D.C. Science Writers Association and the local chapter of the American 
Medical Writers Association the evening of November 17.  Some 170 
journalists and writers filled the Lister Hill Center auditorium to hear 
about and see demonstrations of some of NLM's latest projects.  Included 
were: Internet/Mosaic/World Wide Web [Richard P.C. Rodgers, M.D., Lister 
Hill Center]; biotechnology information [Mark Boguski, M.D., Ph.D., 
National Center for Biotechnology Information]; the Visible Human project 
[Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D., National CCoordination Office, HPCC]; and 
hazardous substances information resources [Bruno M. Vasta, Specialized 
Information Services].  Following the brief presentations, some of the 
group went to The Learning Center for Interactive Technology [in the 
photograph, left, medical writers have hands-on experience with the latest 
biomedical interactive software]; others learned about Grateful Med.  This 
latter was especially appropriate since copies of the software were made 
available to those writers and journalists who could make use of it in 
their work [in photograph on right, Janet Zipser and Karen Ginter (right) 
of the Bibliographic Services Division sign up Grateful Med users].

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New Members Named to NLM Board of Regents

	HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala recently appointed three new members 
to the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine.  They are 
Marion J. Ball, Ed.D., vice president for information services, University 
of Maryland at Baltimore; Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., chancellor and 
chairman, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 
Texas; and George H. Nolan, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.O.G., director, Obstetric 
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 
Michigan.  They were appointed to four-year terms ending in 1998.

	At the University of Maryland at Baltimore, Dr. Ball is responsible 
for the integration of all information management systems on campus.  She 
has had a long association with NLM, having served as a member of its 
Biomedical Library Review Committee and the Long-Range Planning Panel on 
Outreach (chaired by Dr. DeBakey).  She is currently president of the 
International Medical Informatics Association.

	Dr. DeBakey--the celebrated heart surgeon, inventor and innovator, 
teacher, scholar, and international medical statesman--returns to the 
Board of Regents for a second appointment, having served on NLM's first 
Board following the establishment of the National Library of Medicine in 
1956.  Instrumental in helping establish the NLM, Dr. DeBakey has been a 
dedicated friend throughout the decades following that landmark in the 
Library's history.  The Medical Library Assistance Act (MLAA) of 1965--
which established the Regional Medical Library system--came about largely 
because of the recommendations of The President's Commission on Heart 
Disease, Cancer and Stroke which Dr. DeBakey chaired.  Dr. DeBakey was 
also chairman of NLM's Planning Panel on Outreach; the report of the Panel 
published in 1989, continues to guide the Library's outreach efforts.

	Dr. Nolan has had a distinguished career in medical research, and is 
highly regarded as a physician and educator with special expertize in the 
subjects of planned parenthood and maternal and infant nutrition.  He 
received his M.D. degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 
Washington, D.C., in 1962, and his master's of public health degree in 
maternal & child health and population planning from the University of 
Michigan in 1970.  He returned to Howard in 1987 where he served until 
1989 as professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and 
Gynecology.  He is an active member of numerous professional organizations 
and has published widely in his field.  

	The Board of Regents, established in 1956 to provide policy guidance 
to the Library, meets three times a year.  With passage of the MLAA, its 
mandate was expanded to include grant review.  The Board is composed of 
ten members appointed by the HHS secretary and nine ex officio members.

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Dr. DeBakey Wins Sigma Xi's Proctor Award

	Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific research society, has announced 
that Dr. Michael E. DeBakey will receive its highest award, the William 
Proctor Prize.  He will deliver the Proctor Prize address at Sigma Xi's 
annual meeting in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on March 3.  

	Dr. DeBakey's many honors include the Medal of Freedom with 
Distinction, the highest honor the President of the United States can 
bestow on a civilian.  He is presently chancellor and Distinguished 
Service Professor in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of 
Medicine, and director of The DeBakey Heart Center of Baylor and Methodist 
Hospital in Houston, Texas.  Dr. DeBakey recently accepted his second 
appointment to NLM's Board of Regents (see below).  

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NLM Unveils "The Visible Man"

	The scenario is a fantastic one: before his execution, a convicted 
murderer wills his body to science and is "resurrected" 16 months later as 
a three-dimensional, computer-generated "cadaver" destined to be a 
teaching and research tool for the world.  

	That story received widespread media attention following 
presentation of the Visible Man on November 28 in Chicago.  The Visible 
Man was released onto the Internet during a meeting of the Radiological 
Society of North America.  That event marked the completion of the first 
phase of NLM's Visible Human Project (News, January-February 1990).  Phase 
two, the Visible Woman, will be completed next year.

	NLM's director, Donald A. B. Lindberg, M.D., said, "The Visible Man 
represents an incredibly detailed atlas of human anatomy, created from 
thousands of images of a human body collected with state-of-the-art 
radiographic and photographic techniques.  This is the first time such 
detailed digital information about an entire human body has been 
compiled."

	The Visible Man is so complex that those who wish to access the 
data--expected to be predominantly medical schools and researchers--will 
need up to two weeks of uninterrupted Internet time and 15 gigabytes of 
computer storage space.  Although there is no charge for accessing the 
data, users will be required to sign a licensing agreement with NLM 
stating how the information will be used.  "The Visible Man will be made 
available free to those who suggest promising uses for the data and who 
have sufficient computer storage space," said Michael Ackerman, Ph.D., the 
Visible Human Project coordinator.  (Dr. Ackerman, previously acting 
director of NLM's division of Specialized Information Services, was 
recently named assistant director for health and biomedical programs of 
the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and 
Communications, a multi-agency program headed by Dr. Lindberg and located 
at the Library.)

Background

	The Visible Human Project has its roots in the Library's 1986 Long-
Range Plan, which recommended that the NLM should "...thoroughly and 
systematically investigate the technical requirements for and feasibility 
of instituting a biomedical images library."  It encouraged NLM to 
consider building and disseminating medical image libraries much the same 
way it provides access to the biomedical literature.  It foresaw a coming 
era where the Library's bibliographic and factual database services would 
be complemented by libraries of digital images, distributed over high-
speed computer networks and by high-capacity physical media.

	Early in 1989, under the direction of the Board of Regents, an ad 
hoc planning panel was convened to explore the proper role for NLM in the 
rapidly changing field of electronic imaging.  After much deliberation, 
the NLM Planning Panel on Electronic Image Libraries made the following 
recommendation: "NLM should undertake a first project building a digital 
image library of volumetric data representing a complete, normal adult 
male and female.  This Visible Human Project will include digitized 
photographic images for cryosectioning, digital images derived from 
computerized tomography, and digital magnetic resonance images of 
cadavers."*  
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* Electronic imaging: Report of the Board of Regents.  National Library of 
Medicine, 1990.

	A contract to create these images was awarded by NLM in August 1991 
to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.  

The Visible Man

	The Visible Man was created with digitized data compiled from the 
body of a 39-year old man who was convicted of murder and executed by 
lethal injection.  The donor body was imaged from head to toe using 
computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), and x-rays.  It was 
then embedded in gelatin, frozen, and sliced crosswise into more than 
1,800 micro-thin slices, using a laser-guided technique pioneered by 
principal investigators Victor Spitzer, Ph.D., assistant professor, 
departments of radiology and cellular and structural biology, and David 
Whitlock, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of cellular and structural 
biology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

	As each cross-sectional slice was removed from the cadaver, the 
surfaces were photographed.  The digital photographs were stacked and 
programmed into an imaging computer along with the data acquired from the 
radiological studies.

	"Reconstructions of the data can be rotated in space, viewed in any 
plane, dissected and reassembled," said Dr. Spitzer.  "In the future, any 
anatomical part can be extracted from the body and viewed separately.  
Structures such as blood vessels can be followed throughout the body and 
their relationship to other structures, such as organs and bones, can be 
seen."

	The data will be a powerful educational tool for students and it 
also can make an important contribution to medical research," said Dr. 
Whitlock.  "Cancer researchers, for example, might introduce a 
mathematical model of abnormal cell growth into the Visible Man and follow 
it to see how a cancer grows in the body."

	The data also will be helpful in planning surgery, designing 
artificial hips and other man-made body parts and testing various types of 
medical treatments, the researchers said.

	For more information, contact Dr. Ackerman via e-mail: 
ackerman@hpcc.gov or by phone at 301/402-4100.

[Caption]
 The Visible Man compiles cross-section images to form an atlas of the 
human body.  

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Sickle Cell Disease Lecture 
Featured during African-American History Month

	The Library's History of Medicine Division has invited Professor 
Keith Wailoo of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to speak 
at the National Library of Medicine in February as part of NLM's 
celebration of African-American History Month.  Professor Wailoo will 
speak on "Genetics and Segregation: Sickle Cell Disease and American 
Society in the Early 20th Century."

	The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, February 8, at 2:00 p.m., in 
the Library's Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A.  Dr. Donald A. B. 
Lindberg, the NLM director, will introduce the speaker.  For further 
information, call 301/496-5405.

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Dr. DeBakey Returns to Regents,
Wins Sigma Xi's Proctor Award

	Dr. Michael E. DeBakey--the celebrated heart surgeon, innovator, 
teacher, and scholar--has accepted his second appointment to the NLM Board 
of Regents some 38 years after his initial appointment.  Dr. DeBakey was 
named to NLM's very first Board of Regents following the establishment of 
the National Library of Medicine (formerly the Armed Forces Medical 
Library) in 1956.  He had been instrumental in helping establish the NLM 
and has been a dedicated friend through the decades following that 
landmark in the Library's history.  In 1989 he chaired the NLM's Planning 
Panel on Outreach which launched NLM's major outreach initiative.

	Recently Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific research society, 
announced that Dr. DeBakey would receive its highest award, the William 
Proctor Prize.  He will deliver the Proctor Prize address at Sigma Xi's 
annual meeting in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, on March 3.

	Dr. DeBakey's many honors include the Medal of Freedom with 
Distinction, the highest honor the President of the United States can 
bestow on a civilian.  He is presently chancellor and Distinguished 
Service Professor in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of 
Medicine, and director of The DeBakey Heart Center of Baylor and Methodist 
Hospital in Houston, Texas.

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Advanced Computing & Communications Video Available

	A videotape with highlights of a one-day conference--"Improving 
Health through Advanced Computing & Communications: Realities Beyond the 
Promise"--held September 26 (News, July-August 1994) is now available from 
the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.  The 2-hour video 
spotlights a roundtable discussion led by Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, as 
well as presentations by distinguished speakers from the White House, the 
Alliance for Public Technology & Consumer Interest Research Institute, the 
Department of Health and Human Services, the Advanced Research Projects 
Agency, and the University of Iowa.

	The video was presented via satellite on November 10 in a 2-hour 
program jointly sponsored by the Healthcare Information Telecom Network 
(HITN) and NLM.  The Friends of the NLM, in cooperation with HITN are able 
to make the video available at a discount price when ordered directly from 
the Friends: $65 for non-members, $55 for members of the Friends of the 
NLM.  To order, make your check payable to the Friends of the National 
Library of Medicine or indicate your Visa/Mastercard account number and 
expiration date.  Send the order to: Friends of the NLM, 1555 Connecticut 
Ave., NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036, or fax your order to the 
Friends at 202/462-9043.  For questions: call 202/462-9600.

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New Access Methods for NLM Publications

	The Library is pleased to announce two new ways to access National 
Library of Medicine publications.  NLM publications, including Fact 
Sheets, bibliographies, manuals, and newsletters have been available via 
anonymous ftp and the NLM Gopher for some time (see PUBLICATIONS, 
"Internet Access to NLM Publications").  The methods described below will 
allow additional users to access these files.

o E-Mailing Files: Users with e-mail access to the Internet may now use 
this method to obtain files available on NLM's anonymous FTP server.  To 
obtain information about this service, send a message to: 

files@mailserv.nlm.nih.gov

Leave the subject line blank.  In the body of the message place the 
commands:

BEGIN
send help
END

	Questions and comments about the NLM e-mail file server may be 
directed to: 

admin@mailserv.nlm.nih.gov

o Telnet to the NLM Gopher: A telnet option now provides limited access to 
the NLM Gopher for users who have a telnet program but do not have a 
gopher client program.  The option allows users to view selections, e-mail 
ASCII (DOS) text files, and explore other NIH gophers.  It does not allow 
viewing or e-mailing of other types of files such as WordPerfect files or 
access to online services such as Locator.  To use this service:

	telnet to gopher.nlm.nih.gov
	login as gopher

	Questions and comments about this access method may be directed to: 

admini@gopher.nlm.nih.gov

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Exhibit at NLM Through May 5

Revolutionary Medicine in Post-Revolution Paris

	A new exhibit entitled "The Birth of Clinical Medicine: Paris 1794-
1848" will be on display in the main lobby of the National Library of 
Medicine from January 23 through May 5, 1995.  Prepared by NLM's History 
of Medicine Division staff from rare works in its collection, the exhibit 
will illustrate the revolutionary advances that took place in the medical 
world of Paris in the decades following the French Revolution.  These 
include the development of the link between clinical diagnosis and 
autopsy, the working out of the pathology of tuberculosis, the invention 
of the stethoscope, developments in medical education, and reforms in 
hospital design and administration.

	The leading medical figures of this period include Bichat, Pinel, 
Corvisart, Laennec, Broussais, and Pierre Louis.  Their teaching attracted 
many foreign students, including those from the young American republic, 
who pursued a medical education at the Faculty of Medicine, private 
courses, and the hospitals of Paris.  Some of the important writings of 
the French physicians were translated into English by their American 
students, such as the translation of Pierre Louis's Recherches anatomico-
pathologiques sur la phthisie, published in Boston in 1836.  Thus, the new 
developments of the Paris School influenced the course of medicine 
throughout the world.

	Among the items on display will be Laennec's De l'auscultation 
mediate, ou, Traite du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, 
1819, in which the use of the stethoscope is first described, and 
Cruveilhier's monumental atlas, Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, 
1829-42, documenting in full color lithographs the recent discoveries in 
pathological anatomy.

[Caption]
Etching by Alexandre Lacauchie, shown bedside teaching in a hospital 
setting, a practice that was introduced during this period in France.

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PUBLICATIONS

Catalog of Publications, Audiovisuals, Software

	Now in press, the 1995 NLM Catalog of Publications, Audiovisuals, 
and Software includes the latest ordering information for the Library's 
many products.  The new Catalog is arranged in 15 sections alphabetically 
as follows: Audiovisuals, CD-ROM Products, Current Bibliographies in 
Medicine, Fact Sheets, History of Medicine Titles, Information Items, 
Lister Hill Center Monographs, MEDLARS Tools, Microform Editions, 
Miscellaneous Reports & Publications, Publications from GPO, Software 
Packages, and Toxicology Materials.  At the back may be found general GPO 
and NTIS ordering information and order forms, as well as a comprehensive 
index.

	Soon the 1995 Catalog will be accessible via the Internet (see 
below).  Printed copies may now be requested via e-mail 
(publicinfo@occshost.nlm.nih.gov) or by sending a self-addressed label to: 
National Library of Medicine, Public Information Office, Attn. 1995 
Catalog, Bethesda, MD 20894.

Internet Access to NLM Publications

	The full text of many NLM publications is now available directly to 
Internet users.  These publications may be downloaded at no cost via the 
Internet in two ways--through the NLM Gopher and via FTP (File Transfer 
Protocol).  [See also related article, "New Access Methods for NLM 
Publications" above.]

	o The NLM Gopher (gopher.nlm.nih.gov) provides menu-driven access 
and allows users to browse publications, search them by textword, and 
transfer them over the Internet for local use.  

	o FTP (ftp to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as: anonymous using your 
e-mail address as the password) provides similar access, with an index 
file in each directory to provide information about the files in that 
directory.

	Most publications are available in both text (plain ASCII) and 
PostScript formats.  PostScript files provide a completely formatted 
document which may be printed with any PostScript printer or translator.  
These files are used with any computing platform (DOS, Macintosh, Unix) 
for printing or searching.

	Currently, the NLM News, Gratefully Yours, Current Bibliographies in 
Medicine, recent issues of the AIDS Bibliography, NLM Fact Sheets, and 
documents related to the Unified Medical Language System are among the 
items that are retrievable.  Suggestions, comments, or questions regarding 
the NLM Gopher or FTP may be submitted by e-mail to:

ftpadmin@nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov.

1995 LJI, MeSH

	The following titles, which are included with a subscription to 
Index Medicus and are also available separately, may now be ordered from 
the Superintendent of Documents.  They are expected to appear in late 
January.  Send orders, with remittance, to: New Orders, Superintendent of 
Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.  The GPO telephone 
and information desk: 202/512-1800.  Fax orders: 202/512-2250.
_ List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus, 1995.  GPO Code: IM95 (List 
of Journals Indexed).  $16 ($20 foreign).  The LJI is a listing of 3,093 
journal titles indexed in Index Medicus.  It contains four sections: 
abbreviation, full title, subject, and geographical.  (Information about 
the 1995 edition of the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users [sold by 
NTIS] will appear in a forthcoming issue of the News.)

_ Medical Subject Headings, 1995.  GPO Code: IM95 (Medical Subject 
Headings).  $42 ($53.75 foreign).  The "black book" MeSH contains both 
alphabetical and categorized lists of all of the subject descriptors used 
by NLM to analyze the biomedical literature.  (The more specialized MeSH 
tools from NTIS were announced in the last issue of the News.)

AHA Announces Changes in HLI

	The American Hospital Association has announced a number of changes 
in the index which it publishes in cooperation with NLM.  Beginning in 
1995, AHA's Hospital Literature Index has been renamed Hospital and Health 
Administration Index, and its frequency is changing from four to three 
issues a year, with the final issue serving as the casebound annual 
cumulative volume.  For more information, contact the AHA Resource Center 
at its new address, One North Franklin, Chicago, IL 60606.  The telephone 
number is 312/422-2000; fax: 312/422-4700.  To subscribe, call American 
Hospital Publishing Inc. at 800-621-6902.  Subscription prices for 1995 
are $255 for AHA members and $330 for nonmembers.  

Bioethics Bibliography Published

	The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown has announced 
publication of volume 20 (1994) of its annual Bibliography of Bioethics.  
Supported by funding from the National Library of Medicine, the 811-page 
subject/author bibliography is the most comprehensive published reference 
source available for locating literature about the ethical, legal, and 
public policy aspects of health care and biomedical research.  In addition 
to journal articles, the bibliography cites references to books, chapters 
in books, court decisions, government documents, and news reports.  It may 
be ordered from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetwon University, 
Washington, DC 20057-1065 (telephone 800-MED-ETHX or 202/687-6689).  
Volume 20 costs $60 in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; $70 elsewhere (price 
includes shipping). 

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NLM Classification, Fifth Edition, 1994 

	The Library is pleased to announce that the fifth edition of the 
National Library of Medicine Classification may now be ordered from the 
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (see below).  
The GPO is scheduled to receive stock from the printer by the first week 
in January.

	Prepared under the direction of Christa F.B. Hoffman, head of NLM's 
Catalog Section, and Wen-min Kao, principal cataloger, who served as 
editor, the fifth edition supersedes the fourth revised edition published 
in 1981.  The new edition represents a major effort of the entire NLM 
Cataloging Section staff, along with the assistance of many reviewers and 
consultants.  It includes revisions to selected schedules which were in 
special need of updating and also integrates into the Classification's 
index the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) descriptors used in cataloging 
but not yet represented in the index to the fourth edition.  To the extent 
possible, the terminology used in the index, headings, and scope notes has 
been updated to conform to current usage.

	The new edition contains close to 4,000 classification numbers and 
over 18,000 index terms including both the index entries and cross 
references.  Approximately 300 new classification numbers have been added, 
including new form numbers which are repeated in the applicable schedules 
across the entire Classification scheme.

	NLM catalogers began using the 5th edition of the NLM Classification 
on December 2nd, with the beginning of its internal 1995 production cycle, 
and bibliographic records containing these numbers appeared in CATLINE and 
AVLINE with the next weekly update of these databases.

_ National Library of Medicine Classification, Fifth Edition, 1994.  $40 
($50 foreign).  GPO Stock Number: S/N 017-052-00319-4.  (Address orders 
to: New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, 
PA 15250-7954.  Fax: 202/512-2250.)

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Video from Charen Celebration Available

	The last issue of the News featured an article on the October 6th 
celebration honoring NLM's amazing indexing guru, Thelma Charen, for her 
50 years of Federal service.  The event was videotaped, and several copies 
of the videotape are available on short-term loan from the office of the 
Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, 
Bethesda, Maryland 20894.   

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NLM in Print

	The following references cite works that discuss the products and 
services of the National Library of Medicine.  If you know of other 
appropriate citations for this column, please send reprints or references 
to the editor, NLM News, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894. 
(Note: Some of the articles below may be from journals that are out of 
scope for the NLM collection and are therefore not available from the 
Library on interlibrary loan.)

	Barnsteiner J. Knowledge diffusion using electronic communication: 
STTI's electronic journal [interview]. Nurs Educ Microworld 1994 Mar-
Apr;8(2):10.

	Colaianni LA. Peer review in journals indexed in Index Medicus. JAMA 
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	Estborn B. [Where do I find the article? A review of medical 
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	Gonzalez Guitian C, Blanco Perez A. [New standards for the 
presentation of articles (letter)]. Rev Enferm 1994 Jun;17(190):14-5.

	Graeber MB. Development of the microglia literature.
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	Hegarty JD, Baldessarini RJ, Tohen M, Waternaux C, Oepen G. One 
hundred years of schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of the outcome literature. 
Am J Psychiatry 1994 Oct;151(10):1409-16.

	Jones SM. Medical information giveaways. Md Med J 1994 
Jun;43(6):527-8.

	Kaiser J. AAAS sells on-line clinical journal [news]. Science 1994 
Aug 12;265(5174):867.

	Lafuente Urdinguio PJ, Bacaicoa Jurio E, Apellaniz Gonzalez A. 
[Importance of key words in scientific publications (letter)]. Gac Sanit 
1994 Jan-Feb;8(40):50-1.

	Laney WR. Whither goest implant terminology? [editorial]. Int J Oral 
Maxillofac Implants 1993;8(6):607.

	Laupacis A, Wells G, Richardson WS, Tugwell P. Users' guide to the 
medical literature. V. How to use an article about prognosis. Evidence-
Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA 1994 Jul 20;272(3):234-7.

	Mcgaugh della LA. Electronic trails on DOCLINE: organizational 
interactions among Michigan health science libraries (network theory) 
[dissertation]. Univ. of Michigan; 1994. 329 p. Available from: 
Dissertation Abstracts International; AAI9423265.

	McKibbon KA, Walker-Dilks CJ. Beyond ACP Journal Club: how to 
harness MEDLINE for therapy problems [editorial]. ACP J Club 1994 Jul-
Aug;121 Suppl 1:A10-2.

	Nicoll LH. An intro to the Internet, Part III, the Internet and 
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	Shelstad KR, Clevenger FW. On-line search strategies of third year 
medical students: perception vs fact. J Surg Res 1994 Apr;56(4):338-44.

	Schosser RH, Sneiderman CA, Pearson TG. How dermatologists perceive 
CRT displays and silver halide prints of transparency-based images: a 
comparison study. J Biol Photogr 1994 Oct;62(4):135-7.

	Wartman SA. Research in medical education: the challenge for the 
next decade. Acad Med 1994 Aug;69(8):608-14.

	Wren MI, Johnson RC. New York University Dental Center Library. 
Preparing to meet the information needs of the dental team today and in 
the 21st century. N Y State Dent J 1994 May;60(5):49-51.

	_ Monthly bibliography tracks worldwide AIDS research [news]. Ann 
Allergy 1994 Sep;73(3):A32-56.

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Humphrey Elected AAAS Fellow

	Susanne M. Humphrey of the Lister Hill Center's Computer Science 
Branch has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science.  Ms. Humphrey is one of seven members chosen for 
this honor under the AAAS sectional affiliation "Information, Computing, 
and Communication."

	Presentations will be made at the February 1995 meeting of the AAAS 
where Ms. Humphrey will be commended for "research and professional 
contributions in the area of information science, particularly in 
knowledge-based expert systems, database indexing, and information 
retrieval."  

	Ms. Humphrey who has been with the National Library of Medicine 
since 1965, has published widely in the field of information science.  She 
received the 1988 ASIS (American Association for Information Science) Best 
JASIS Paper Award for her article "Knowledge-Based Indexing of the Medical 
Literature: The Indexing Aid Project" (JASIS, May 1987).  She was founder 
of the SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop held at the Annual ASIS 
Conference since 1990, the proceedings of which are published as Advances 
in Classification Research (ASIS Monograph Series) by Learned Information.

	Founded in 1848, AAAS represents the world's largest federation of 
scientists and has more than 140,000 individual members.  The Association 
publishes the weekly journal Science.

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NLM Grant Awards--Fiscal Year 1994

	The Library has a number of grant programs which it makes available 
under the authorities of Public Health Service laws.  New grant awards for 
fiscal year 1994 are listed below.  The dollar amounts shown represent the 
current (first year) awards and are only a portion of the total in the 
case of a multiple-year total project period.  Further information on NLM 
grants is available from Extramural Programs, National Library of 
Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894; telephone: 301/496-4221.

Publication Grants

o  Ronald Bayer, Ph.D (Columbia University, New York, NY)  
Physicians and AIDS--a History of the First Decade
$41,750 

o  Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)
Henry E. Sigerist and the Making of Medical History
$29,969

o  Christopher C. Sellers, M.D. (New Jersey Institute of Technology, 
Newark, NJ) Emergence of An American Science of Occupational Disease
$37,463

o  Mary N. Wessling, Ph.D. (Individual Award, Midland, MI) Medicine and 
Society in Wurttemberg, 1730-1830
$18,250

o  Renate Wilson, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)  Pietist 
Medications and Medical Care in the Middle Colony
$32,974

Biotechnology Research Grants

o  Douglas L. Brutlag, Ph.D. (Stanford University, Stanford CA)
Multiple Representations of Biological Sequences
$198,777

Small Business Innovative Research Grants

o  Yves Chauvin, Ph.D. (Net-Id, Inc. San Francisco, CA) Computer Simulator 
for Biological Sequence Analysis
$65,173

o  John L. Schroeder (Dnaster, Inc., Madison, WI) Client-Server to Access 
Biological Dbases over Internet
$74,771

Medical Informatics Research Grants

o  Eta S. Berner, Ed.D (University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL) Physician 
Use of Diagnostic Decision Support System Data
$106,993

o  Norberto F. Ezquerra, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech Research Corporation, 
Atlanta, GA) Knowledge-Based System for Cardiac Image Interpretation
$224,613

o  Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 
NC) Information and Cognition in Medical Education
$177,921

o  Ramesh S. Patil, Ph.D. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 
CA) Clinical Management of Critical Illness Using AI
$250,104

Fellowship Awards

Minority Predoctoral Fellowships 

o  Alexandre R. Carter (Harvard University, Boston, MA) Minority 
Predoctoral Fellowship Program--NIGMS
$34,967

Medical Informatics Fellowships

o  Diane E. Zimmerman, Ph.D. (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ) 
Protein NMR Spectra Using Artificial Intelligence
$25,608

Applied Medical Informatics Fellowships

o  Steven H. Brown, M.D. (Emory University, Atlanta, GA) Clinical Test of 
UMLS and Problem Statement Closure
$56,000

o  Keith W. Cogdill (University of Illinois, Chicago, IL) Applied Health 
Informatics
$36,000

o  James D. Legler, M.D. (University of Texas Health Science Center, San 
Antonio, TX) Assessment of City Wide Childhood Immunization Database
$56,000

o  P. Zoe Stavri, Ph.D. (U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD) 
Fellowship in Applied Health Informatics
$52,000

o  Margaret L. Thompson, M.D. (Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA) 
Computerized Information Resources in Clinical Settings
$43,656

Information Access Grants

o  Heather W. Brice (Laurel Highlands Health Sciences Library, Johnstown, 
PA) Laurel Highlands Information Access Project
$68,279

o  Polly Mastin (Rural Health Projects, Inc., Enid, OK) Med-Fax Network
$11,948

Information Systems Grants

o  Erika Love (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM) Interactive 
Medical Information System in New Mexico
$175,915

o  Judith R. Messerle (Harvard University, Boston, MA) National Electronic 
Access to Countway Serials Holdings
$136,874

o  Ada M. Seltzer (University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS) 
Health Sciences Information Network
$439,189

IAIMS (Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Grants)

o  Lee Bairnsfather, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University Medical Center, New 
Orleans, LA) Statewide IAIMS Planning
$149,004

o  Don E. Detmer, M.D. (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) 
Electronic Academic Village for the Health Sciences
$136,747

o  Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle WA) 
Creating the UWHSC Integrated Information Infrastructure
$549,981
 
o  David A. Goldstein, M.D. (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY) 
Medical Center IAIMS Planning
$149,592

o  William R. Hendee, Ph.D. (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI) 
IAIMS Planning at the Medical College of Wisconsin
$149,740

o  Joyce A. Mitchell, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, Columbia, MO) 
Missouri Integrated Advanced Information Management System
$149,600

o  Arthur H. Rubenstein, M.D. (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL) IAIMS 
Planning at the University of Chicago
$150,000

Research Career Development Awards

o  Frank A. Sonnenberg, M.D. (University of Med/Den of NJ-R.W. Johnson 
Medical School, Piscataway, NJ) Knowledge Management for Clinical Decision 
Analysis
$71,820

Conference Grants

o  Russ B. Altman, M.D. (Stanford University, Stanford CA) Intelligent 
Systems for Molecular Biology Conference
$9,900

o  Lewis J. Thomas, Jr., M.D. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) 
Workshop -- Pattern/Theoretic Knowledge Representation
$21,900

FIRST (First Independent Research Support and Transition) Awards 

o  Russ B. Altman, M.D. (Stanford University, Stanford CA) Modeling and 
Computing With Uncertain Structures
$125,172

o  George Hripcsak, M.D. (Columbia University, New York, NY) Linking 
Knowledge-Based Systems to Clinical Databases
$133,612

o  Harold P. Lehmann, M.D. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) 
Formalizing the Notion of Clinical Significance
$104,084

o  Leslie A. Lenert, M.D. (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) Preference 
Assessment for Pharmaceutical Evaluation
$111,398

Electronic Medical Records System Cooperative Agreements

o  James J. Cimino, M.D. (Columbia University, New York, NY) Controlled 
Vocabulary in Primary Care Electronic Records
$340,418

o  Christopher G. Chute, M.D. (Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN) Multi-
Institutional Testbed for Clinical Vocabulary
(Co-funded with AHCPR) $126,782 

o  Michael G. Kahn, M.D. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) Automated 
Tools To Support Health Services Research
$255,604

o  Isaac S. Kohane, M.D. (Children's Hospital, Boston, MA) Multiplatform 
Internet Access to Multimedia EMRS
$284,792

Internet Connections Grants

Single Institutions ($30,000)

o  Barry J. Campos, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA 

o  Irwin Goverman, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, WA 
 
o  Howell R. Porter, Lubbock Methodist Hospital System, Lubbock, TX

o  Kathleen Wagner, Lutheran Hospital-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 

o  G. Ward Keever, Medical Center of Delaware, New Castle, DE 
 
o  Robert L. Vaughn, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque, NM 

o  Doug Palm, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), 
Seattle, WA 
 
o  Kevin Van Becelaere, Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa, OK 
 
o  Gilda Lugo, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA 
 
o  Maryanne Donnelly, United Health Services Hospitals, Johnson City, NY 
 
o  John N. Roy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, 
AR 

o  Joyce C. Mitchell, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 

o  Rhett Roy, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA 

o  Robert L. Tobin, M.D., Wyoming Medical Center, Casper, WY 

Multi-Institutions ($50,000)  

o  John Lynch, Connecticut Hospital Research & Education Foundation, 
Wallingford, CT 

o  Debbie Lewis, The Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH 

o  Karen Dahlen, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 

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Monograph & Serial G aps]

	NLM regularly seeks the help of the medical library community in 
filling gaps in its monograph and serial collections.  If you can provide 
any of these items we would be most grateful.  

Monographs

If you are able to provide a copy of any of the monographs listed below, 
please send to:

		National Library of Medicine
		TSD-MONOGRAPHS Attn: L. Turnage
		Bethesda, MD  20894

	Brecher, Gerhard A.  Brecher's odyssey : reminiscences of a doctor: 
World War II.  Yukon, Okla.: Pueblo Pub. Press [1988], c1987.

	Neuburger, Max.  Essays in the history of medicine.  New York: 
Medical Life Press; 1930. 

	Regional planning for nursing and nursing education : report of work 
conference held at Plymouth State Teachers College, Plymouth, New 
Hampshire, June 12 to June 23, 1950.  New York: Distributed by Bureau of 
Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University; 1950.

	Regulation of eukaryotic mRNA transcription : abstracts of papers 
presented at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Cancer Cells : September 6-
September 10, 1989.  Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor 
Laboratory; 1989.

	Symposium on Basic Science in Plastic Surgery : proceedings of the 
Symposium of the Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic 
and Reconstructive Surgeons, Inc., held at New Haven, Connecticut, April 
7-9, 1975.  Saint Louis: Mosby; 1976. 

Serials Gaps

Please address serial issues to:

	National Library of Medicine
	TSD-GAPS Attn: C. Fields
	Bethesda, MD 20894

Acta Microbiologica Bulgarica 28, 1992
Acta Physiologica et Pharmacologica Bulgarica 18:3-4, 1992
Agressologie 31: 11-12, 1991
Annales de Radiologie 34:8, 1991
Arctic Medical Research 49: Suppl 1, 1990
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 62:11, 1992
Bioessays 14:8-12, 1992
Biofizika 37:2, 1992
Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy 44:1, 1990
Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Medicales du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg 
126:2, 1989; 128:1-2, 1991; 129:1, 1992
Canada Communicable Disease Report 19:3, 1993
Cancer Communications 3:12, 1991
Children Today 21:3, 1992
Clinical Symposia 42:6, 1990
Colorado Medicine 90:6, 1993
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 31:6, 1992
Current Microbiology 23:3, 1991
Deutsche Zahn-, Mund-, und Kieferheilkunde mit Zentralblatt 79:1, 1991
Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology 30:4, 1990
Human Reproduction 1: Suppl 2, 1986
International Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Research 21:1, 1991
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 22:6, 1992
Irish Journal of Medical Science 161:8, 1992
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 48:5, 1993
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology 17: Suppl 1, 1991; 20: Suppl 4, 
1992
Journal of the Florida Medical Association 72:11, 1985
Journal of School Health 62:3 1992
Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine 24:1-4, 1974
Khirurgiia 45:1-5, 1992
Medicine and War 8:2, 1992
Medicinski Arhiv 38:1, 1984
Molecular Microbiology 9:5-6, 1993
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation 5:8, 1990
Neuropatologia Polska 29:3-4, 1991
Neuroscience Letters. Supplement 35-36, 1989
New Zealand Dental Journal 89:396, 1993
Plant Foods for Human Nutrition 43:4, 1993
Problemy Medycyny Wieku Rozwojowego 15, 1988
Progres en Urologie 1:1, 1991
Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing 7:2, 1992
Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 330, 1990
Reproduction, Fertility, and Development 4:6, 1992
Revista de Medicina Interna, Neurologie, Psihiatrie, Neurochirurgie, 
Dermato-Venerologie. Medicina Interna 42:3-6, 1990
Revista de Medicina de la Universidad de Navarra 38:1, 1993
Sbornik Lekarsky 93:11-12, 1991
Scanning Microscopy. Supplement  5:1991-92
Soudni Lekarstvi 38:3, 1993
Transfusion Medicine 3:3-4, 1993
Trends in Genetics 8: 1,7, 1992
Tunisie Medicale 70:4, 1992
Ultrasonic Imaging 15:3, 1993