NLM Staff Publications and Presentations

Office of the Director
- Bibliography, Donald A. B. Lindberg
- NLM Update - Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 2005 (Betsy Humphreys)
- NLM Changes with the Times, US Medicine, January 2002 (Donald A.B. Lindberg)
- National Library of Medicine, Bowker Annual Chapter (Robert B. Mehnert, Director, Office of Communications and Public Liaison)
- Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly: A Checklist (Publication from NLM and the National Institute on Aging, September 2002) (PDF, 1.1MB)
Division of Library Operations
- NLM Update - Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 2000 (Betsy Humphreys)
- Demystifying PubMed Central - Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 2000 (Betsy Humphreys)
- Making a Powerful Connection: The Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure (Roz D. Lasker, Betsy Humphreys, Library Operations, William R. Braithwaite)
- Medical Subject Headings Section
  - An Interlingual Database of MeSH Translations. 8th International Conference on Medical Librarianship, July 2000 (Stuart J. Nelson, Jacque-Lynne Schulman, MeSH)
  - Relationships in Medical Subject Headings. (Stuart J. Nelson, Douglas Johnston, Betsy Humphreys) In: Bean, Carol A.; Green, Rebecca. Relationships in the organization of knowledge. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, [forthcoming].
  - Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to examine patterns in American medicine. Paper, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, May 2000. (Jacque-Lynne Schulman, MeSH Section)
  - Beyond synonymy: exploiting the UMLS semantics in mapping vocabularies. J Am Med Informatics Assoc (Symposium Suppl) 1998;:815-9. (Olivier Bodenreider, Stuart J. Nelson, William T. Hole, Florence H. Chang)
  - An Interlingual Database of MeSH Translations . Presentation at the 8th International Conference on Medical Librarianship, July 2000 (Stuart J. Nelson, MeSH Section)
  - The Alternatives Project. Presentation at the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research conference: IACUCs: The Ethics, the Politics, and the reality; March 2000 (Stuart J. Nelson, MeSH Section)
  - The Role of the Unified Medical Language System in Vocabulary Control. Presentation at CENDI Conference: Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, September 1999 (Stuart J. Nelson, MeSH Section)
  - Information and Medicine: An ambiguous title. Presentation at the University of Arizona, February 1999 (Stuart J. Nelson, MeSH Section)
  - The Unified Medical Language System. Applicable Experiences and Observations. Presentation at The Workshop on the Compilation, Maintenance, and Dissemination of Taxonomic Authority Files, June 1998 (Stuart J. Nelson, MeSH Section)
  - Other publications and presentations by the MeSH staff
- National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology
  - Literature Search Methods for Developing Clinical Practice Guidelines (Ione Auston, Marjorie A. Cahn, Catherine R. Selden, National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, NICHSR)
- NN/LM National Network Office
  - Outreach activities of the National Library of Medicine: a five-year review. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1996 Apr;84(2 Suppl):1-60. (Karen Wallingford, Angela B. Ruffin, Karen Ginter, Melvin Spann, Frances Johnson, Gale Dutcher, Robert Mehnert, David Nash, Jeffrey Bridgers Becky Lyon, Elliot Siegel, Nancy Roderer)
  - "Enhancing Public Health Informatics Competencies: PHPartners.org and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine." Association of Schools of Public Health, Charting the Future of Flexible Learning in Public Health Conference, June 11, 2004. Tampa, Florida (Barbara Few, Keith W. Cogdill)
  - Complementary competencies: public health and health sciences librarianship. J Med Libr Assoc. 93(3):338-47 July 2005. (Marcus Banks, Keith Cogdill, Catherine Selden, Marjorie Cahn)
  - Assessment of the National Library of Medicine's health disparities plan: a focus on Native American outreach. J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 October; 93(4 Suppl): S10–S20. (Elliot R. Siegel, Frederick B. Wood, Gale A. Dutcher, Angela B. Ruffin, Robert A. Logan, John C. Scott)
  - The National Library of Medicine's Native American outreach portfolio: a descriptive overview. J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 October; 93(4 Suppl): S21–S34. (Frederick B. Wood, Elliot R. Siegel, Gale A. Dutcher, Angela B. Ruffin, Robert A. Logan, John C. Scott)
  - "Public Health Information and Data Tutorials: Development of Web-based Resources for the Public Health Workforce." Annual conference of the American Public Health Association, December 14, 2005. Philadelphia, PA. (Nancy Allee, Keith W. Cogdill)
  - Access to electronic health information for the public: analysis of fifty-three funded projects. Library Trends, 53(3):434-452 Winter 2005. (Angela B. Ruffin, Keith W. Cogdill, Lalitha Kutty, Michelle Ochillo)
  - "Digital Competencies for Librarians: How Will We Get There?" Annual forum of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC). March 23, 2006. Washington, DC. (Keith W. Cogdill)
  - Information Rx: Evaluation of a new informatics tool for physicians, patients, and libraries. Information Services & Use 26 (2006) 1–10. (Elliot R. Siegel, Robert A. Logan, Robert L. Harnsberger, Kathleen Cravedi, Jean A. Krause, Becky Lyon, Karen Hajarian, Jonathan Uhl, Angela Ruffin, Donald A.B. Lindberg)
- Public Services Division
  - Burke C, Ahmed T, Greenberg S. Serving our colleagues: reference and history of medicine services from the National Library of Medicine. Medical reference services quarterly [Internet]. 2007 Spring [cited 2007 Mar 29];26(1):73-80. doi: 10.1300/J115v26n01_07.
  - Automated customer service at the National Library of Medicine published in First Monday, Vol. 11, No. 11, November 2006 (Terry T. Ahmed, Carolyn Willard, and Marcia Zorn)
  - Organizing Electronic Information to Serve the Needs of Health Practitioners and Consumers published in Library Trends, Vol. 54, No.4, Spring 2006 (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Joyce E. B. Backus, Public Services Division) (PDF, 517KB)
  - Libraries: Meeting the Needs of Today's Users(Eve-Marie Lacroix and Joyce E. B. Backus, Public Services Division) - Presented at the EAHIL Workshop, Palermo, Italy, June 2005.
  - MedlinePlus: The National Library of Medicine Brings Quality Information to Health Consumers published in Library Trends, Fall 2004 (Naomi Miller, Rebecca J. Tyler, Joyce E. B. Backus, Public Services Division) (PDF, 517KB)
  - The National Library of Medicine Reaches Out to Consumers. In: Lewis, D.; Eysenback, G.; Kukafka, R.; Stavri, Z.; Jimison, H., editors. Consumer Health Informatics. New York: Springer-Verlag; 2005. p. 188-98. (Joyce E.B. Backus and Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division)
  - Managing Health Information: We're In It Together" Nordic Baltic European Association for Health Information and Libraries, Oslo- June 26, 2003. (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division
  - A Practical Approach to E-Government Web Evaluation - IT Pro May/June 2003 22-28. (Fred Wood, Elliot Siegel, Eve-Marie Lacroix, Becky Lyon, Public Services Division, DA Benson, Victor Cid, Susan Fariss)
  - Results of National Library of Medicine Web Site User Survey (Web Management Team, Public Services Division and Fulcrum Analytics) - Survey conducted July 7 - July 17, 2002.
  - The US National Library of Medicine in the 21st century: expanding collections, nontraditional formats, new audiences Health Info Libr J 2002 Sep;19(3)126-32. (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division Robert Mehnert)
  - Document Delivery Worldwide: PubMed, Loansome Doc, and DOCLINE(Martha R. Fishel and Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division) - Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 22, 2002.
  - How consumers are gathering information from MEDLINEplus. Science Communication 2001; 22(3) 283-291. (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division)
  - The Making of Medlineplus Public Libraries 2001 March/April; 40(2) 111-113. (Naomi Miller, Eve-Marie Lacroix, Joyce E.B.Backus, Public Services Division)
  - So You Say You Want a Redesign: Usability, Accessibility and the Constraints of Designing a Database-Driven Web Site - Presented to the LITA National Forum, November 2000 (Jennifer Marill, Public Services Division)
  - Expanding World Access to Health Literature - Presented to the 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, July 2000 (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division)
  - MEDLINEplus, May 2000 (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division)
  - MEDLINEplus: building and maintaining the National Library of Medicine's consumer health Web service, published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Jan 2000 (Naomi Miller, Eve-Marie Lacroix, Joyce E. B. Backus, Public Services Division)
  - Improving the NLM Home Page: From Logs to Links, May 1997 (Naomi Miller, Public Services Division)
  - Interlibrary Loan in U.S. Health Sciences Libraries - Journal Article Use published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Oct 1994 (Eve-Marie Lacroix, Public Services Division)
- Technical Services Division
  - Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine, published in D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2009 (Jennifer Marill, Technical Services Division and Edward Luczak)
  - Future of Bibliographic Control. Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 20, 2008. (Diane Boehr, Technical Services Division, Cataloging Section) (PPT, 690KB)
  - Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA). Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association, July 11, 2009. (Barbara Bushman, Technical Services Division, Cataloging Section) (PPT, 982KB)
  - Upstream Metadata. Presentation from the OCLC Symposium for Publishers and Librarians, March 18, 2009. (Diane Boehr, Technical Services Division, Cataloging Section). (PPT, 2.68MB)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
- NCBI Staff Bibliography
- Full text of Selected NCBI Staff Papers
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
- NLM Update: Research & Development at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications -Presentation from the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 2000 (Alexa McCray)
- LHNCBC Staff Publications
Specialized Information Services
- SIS Staff Publications