NLM News 1994 January-February; Vol. 49, No. 1

	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:

NLM Offers Online HIV/AIDS Information Services at No Charge

AIDS Conference Report

NLM Long Range Planning Panel on the Education and Training of Health 

Science Librarians

NLM Offers Course in Medical Informatics

NLM/NSF Seek Internet Connection Grant Applications

Health Services Research Literature Accessible through New MEDLARS 

Database: HSTAR


Staff News

Dr. Bridgman Dies

Publications

Access to NLM Publications Via Internet

The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century

Serial Gaps

1994 NLM Update Satellite Broadcast

NLM Grant Awards--Fiscal Year 1993

NLM in Print
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NLM Offers Online HIV/AIDS Information Services 
at No Charge

	On January 25th, listeners to National Public Radio's "Morning 
Edition" and readers of the New York Times were advised that NLM was 
about to announce the elimination of all online charges for searching 
three AIDS-related databases (AIDSLINE\, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS), and an 
online directory of sources of information (DIRLINE\).  

	The action became effective following a formal announcement later 
that morning at a meeting of the NLM Board of Regents.

	This means that the 75,000 members of the NLM international online 
database network may now search these four databases without charge.  
Just as importantly, perhaps, individuals and AIDS organizations that 
have computers and modems but have not been searching NLM's databases, 
will be able to request special codes for accessing the large and 
growing body of information dealing with virtually all aspects of the 
AIDS pandemic--without charge.

	The change to free access is the result of recommendations made at 
the June 1993 NIH HIV/AIDS Information Services Conference by 
individuals representing the affected community (News, July-August 1993; 
see related story below).  Recent increases in NLM's AIDS funding 
enables the Library to offer this service.  

	"We applaud NLM for today's decision," said Cornelius Baker, 
director of public policy and education of the National Association of 
People with AIDS. "It's a good step, a very positive action.  Obviously, 
other barriers still exist to people with AIDS seeking enrollment in 
trials and getting adequate health care.  But this step will encourage 
patients to understand what's going on with their own bodies.  If they 
can do that, often they can live longer."


AIDSLINE is an online database, covering 1980 to the present, containing 
more than 90,000 citations (with abstracts if available) to AIDS-related 
journal articles, books, audiovisuals, conference abstracts, government 
reports, and theses.  AIDSTRIALS, produced as a joint effort with NIH's 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Food and 
Drug Administration, contains current information about more than 500 
clinical trials of drugs and vaccines that have been and are being 
tested by NIH and by private organizations.  AIDSDRUGS contains detailed 
information about the 190 agents being tested in the clinical trials of 
drugs and vaccines that have been and are being tested by NIH and by 
private organizations.  AIDSDRUGS contains detailed information about 
the 190 agents being tested in the clinical trials.  DIRLINE lists 
15,000 organizations and information services that provide information 
to the public about HIV/AIDS and other health-related topics.  The AIDS-
related databases are accessible using Grateful Med\ software.  To 
search using the user-friendly form screens, simply choose "Search Other 
Databases" at the Action Screen and select the database from the list.

Word to the Wise

If you search AIDSLINE, you will retrieve everything HIV/AIDS-related 
that you would have retrieved searching MEDLINE alone--as well, perhaps, 
as records from other databases.  However, if you perform your search in 
MEDLINE, even though AIDS-related terms are used, you will be charged.

AIDS Conference Report Available

	Information Services for HIV/AIDS: Recommendations to the NIH--the 
report of a conference co-sponsored by NLM and the NIH Office of AIDS 
Research (News, July-August 1993)--is now available.

	The report includes as an appendix a guide to current NIH/AIDS 
information services.  It has been sent to members of NLM's National 
Network of Libraries of Medicine, and elsewhere.  Copies may be 
requested from NLM's Public Information Office (Attn: AIDS Report); 
Internet address: Pubinfo@occshost.nlm.nih.gov.

The cover illustration of the report, built around a pentagon, 
represents five panels that contributed a total of 60 specific 
recommendations.  The panels consisted of Clinical Researchers; Medical, 
Dental, and Nursing Providers; Allied Health Care Providers; Media and 
the General Public; and Patients and the Affected Community.  It was the 
latter group that specifically recommended that NLM's AIDS-related 
databases become gratis.

NLM Long Range Planning Panel on the 
Education and Training of Health Science Librarians

	The 1986 NLM Long Range Plan, along with its updates on Outreach 
(1989), Electronic Imaging (1990), and Toxicology and Environmental 
Health (1992), recognized the importance of developing a cadre of highly 
trained health sciences librarians and other information professionals 
to adapt modern information technologies to the needs of the biomedical 
community.  

	This requirement is also a major underpinning of a key component 
of the Presidential initiative in High Performance Computing and 
Communications (HPCC), which is concerned with the training needs of 
individuals capable of creating and utilizing emerging computing and 
networking technologies in the national interest.  

	Platform for Change, a recent planning document prepared by the 
Medical Library Association, lists areas in which health science 
librarians believe they will need proficiency in the future.  

	In response to these concerns, in 1993 the NLM Board of Regents 
established a Long Range Planning Panel on the Education and Training of 
Health Science Librarians.  The purpose of this panel is to analyze what 
NLM and others might do over the next ten years to assure that our 
society benefits from the skills of health science librarians.  We also 
wish to help assure that persons who choose medical librarianship will 
be properly educated and trained, and that they have an opportunity to 
engage in the most important work concerning information and health 
care.  

	The panel is chaired by Dr. Thomas Detre, senior vice chancellor 
for health sciences, University of Pittsburgh, and has 15 members from 
academic medical centers, library schools, health science libraries, 
professional associations, and hospitals.  Ms. Rachael Anderson, chair 
of the NLM Board of Regents, is the Board liaison to the panel.  The 
panel has now had two meetings, September 28-29 and December 8-9, 1993.  
The third and final meeting of the panel will be March 15-16, 1994, 
after which the panel will report to the Board of Regents with its 
recommendations.

NLM Offers Course in Medical Informatics

	A week-long course in medical informatics, sponsored by the 
National Library of Medicine, will be held May 31-June 7, 1994, at the 
Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.  This is the 
third year such a such a course has been sponsored by NLM.  For further 
information and application forms, contact:

	Admissions Coordinator
	Office of Education and Training Programs
	Marine Biological Laboratory
	Woods Hole, MA 02543
	Phone: 508/548-3705 Ext. 401
	Internet: admissions@mbl.edu

The deadline for applications is March 18.

NLM/NSF Seek Internet Connection Grant Applications

	Through an interagency agreement with the National Science 
Foundation (NSF), the National Library of Medicine will award, in Fiscal 
Year 1994, 10 to 12 "basic" Internet connection grants ($30,000 each) 
and 5 to 6 "multi-institution" grants ($50,000 each) to health science 
institutions.  Eligible institutions include public and private 
nonprofit health science organizations.  This grant program is part of 
NLM's response to the interagency High Performance Computing and 
Communications (HPCC) initiative.  

	The HPCC program recognizes "that unprecedented computational 
power and its creative use are needed to investigate and understand a 
wide range of scientific and engineering 'grand challenge' problems."  
Some of challenges identified are of obvious interest to biomedicine: 
the National Research and Educational Network (NREN), biotechnology, 
transmission of digital images, intelligent gateways to retrieve 
information from life sciences knowledge sources, innovations in 
educational techniques, among others.

	High-speed computer networks are an essential component of the 
HPCC program.  The current Internet, an international computer network 
built upon the conventions of the Transmission Control Program/Internet 
Protocol (TCP/IP), will evolve into the NREN as faster networking 
technologies are developed.  Through Internet, research workers, health 
care providers, and administrators can access a rich variety of 
information resources, including libraries, databases, and 
supercomputers. 

	NLM's connection grant program would permit a medical center to 
link up to the Internet directly or through the main campus, or to link 
its medical school to affiliated hospitals.  For both medical centers 
and local hospitals, Internet access will permit direct connection to 
NLM databases through Grateful Med, a use of modern technology which 
ideally fulfills the high-priority NLM objective of promoting 
information transfer by national networks.

	It is expected that most institutions will propose the straight-
forward solution of connecting to Internet by installing an IP 
Router/Gateway on their local networks, although alternative proposals 
are also welcome.  Such a gateway would link the local network to an 
appropriate mid-level network by means of leased or dial-up 
communication circuits of varying speeds (9600 bits per second to 1.5 
million bits per second).  The gateway to the Internet should be 
available to all users at the institution.  Ideally the institution will 
have installed a high-speed network and have adopted the TCP/IP 
protocols as standard.  Where other networking protocols are used, the 
institution will be responsible for the installation of any additional 
network gateway systems required to resolve the protocol conversion 
issues in order to provide connectivity to the Internet gateway to all 
users at the institution.  

	The application submission date is May 15, 1994. General inquiries 
and requests for the "Connections to NSFNET Program Announcement" should 
be made to the NSFNET Program, Division of Networking and Communications 
Research and Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Room 1175, Arlington, VA 22230 (telephone: 703/306-1949).  
Inquiries may also be directed to:  Mrs. Frances E. Johnson, Extramural 
Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894 (telephone:  
301/496-4221).

	Applications should be prepared and submitted in accordance with 
the guidelines provided in the NSFNET brochure, Grants for Research and 
Education in Science and Engineering (GRESE), NSF 94-2 (formerly NSF 92-
89).  Single copies of this brochure are available at no cost from the 
NSF Forms and Publications Unit (telephone:  703/306-1130, or via e-
mail: pubs@nsf (Bitnet) or pub@nsf.gov (Internet).  It is important to 
indicate on the application that the proposal is in response to the NLM 
program announcement.

Health Services Research Literature Accessible through New MEDLARS 
Database: HSTAR

	In February 1994, the National Library of Medicine launched HSTAR, 
a new MEDLARS database dedicated exclusively to the increasingly 
important field of health services research.  Health services research 
is the study of the scientific basis and management of health services 
and their effect on access, quality, and cost of health care, and 
includes practice guidelines and technology assessments.
The target audiences are health care practitioners and health services 
researchers, administrators, policy makers, payers, and the information 
professionals who serve these groups.  HSTAR will be useful to persons 
involved in all aspects of health care reform.

	HSTAR (Health Services/Technology Assessment Research), presently 
includes more than 1.25 million post-1984 citations from the MEDLINE\, 
HEALTH, and CATLINE\ databases.  It also contains over 4,000 citations 
to journal articles and technical and government reports not found in 
the other MEDLARS databases.   In the near future, NLM plans to add 
citations to newspaper articles and meeting abstracts.

	The charge for online access is the same as that for MEDLINE 
($1.25 for an average search).  It is now searchable through direct 
MEDLARS access ("File HSTAR"), or, in a 'user-friendly' way through the 
newly released 6.5 version of Grateful Med\ (choose 'Search Other 
Databases' from the ACTION screen and select HSTAR from that menu).

	One unique feature of the HSTAR record format is the alternative 
source information: when material identified in HSTAR is available from 
a source in addition to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 
information on where else one may obtain it also appears in the record. 

	The announcement of HSTAR's inclusion within the family of MEDLARS 
databases follows the creation last year at NLM of the National 
Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care 
Technology (NICHSR).  The new Center was announced in the September-
October issue of the News.  

	[Fact Sheets on NICHSR and HSTAR are available via Internet 
through ftp.  To access, ftp to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as 
anonymous.  Use your e-mail address as the password.]  An article in the 
January-February 1994 issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin provides 
technical details.  For further information on HSTAR and NICHSR, call 
301/496-0176; fax: 301/402-3193; or use the Center's Internet address 
for electronic mail: nichsr@nlm.nih.gov. 

Examples of HSTAR References
Journal Article

o Bright RA, Jeng LL, Moore RM. National survey of self-reported breast 
implants: 1988 estimates. J Long Term Eff Med Implants, 1993;3(1):81-9.
Technical Reports

o Infusion pumps, ambulatory.  In: Healthcare product comparison system. 
Hospital ed.  Plymouth Meeting, (PA): ECRI; 1991, [13 p.]  Available for 
purchase from the Circulation Department, ECRI, 5200 Butler Pike, 
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462.

o Hotta SS, Holohan TV.   Procuren: a platelet-derived wound healing 
formula.  Rockville, (MD): Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; 
1992. 3 p. (Health technology review; no. 2).  Limited number of free 
copies available from AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse, PO Box 8547, 
Silver Spring, MD 20907.  Available for purchase from the National 
Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, 
VA 22161.

[Staff News]

Director of NLM Information Systems Appointed
	Fernando Burbano has been appointed to the Senior Executive 
Service position of director, Information Systems, NLM.  Since last 
September, Mr. Burbano had been serving as a special expert with the 
Office of the Director, where he was conducting an evaluation of the 
current computerized systems and equipment of the service components of 
the Library.  He will also serve as the director of NLM's Office of 
Computer and Communications Systems.

	Prior to these appointments at NLM, Mr. Burbano was director of 
the Peace Corps' Office of Information Resources Management.  In 1992 he 
received a Special Service Award for his work in directing the Corps' 
new computer center and two important applications systems--the 
Volunteer Database Management System and the Financial Management 
System.  At the same time he was cited for helping establish and run the 
Information System's Advisory Board and for developing the Agency's 
first five-year Management Information Systems Strategic Plan.

	Mr. Burbano received B.A. in applied behavior science and 
management information systems from the National Louis University in 
Evanston, Illinois, and his professional certificate in computer science 
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Graduate School in Washington, 
D.C.  He is currently working towards a masters degree in Public 
Administration from the American University.

	The Library's Office of Computer and Communications Systems 
supports NLM's data processing and data communication requirements for 
disseminating biomedical information throughout the world.
Veterinary Specialist Fritz Gluckstein Retires

	Dr. Fritz P. Gluckstein, a biomedical information specialist in 
the Public Services Division, recently retired from NLM and the Public 
Health Service Commissioned Corps.  He joined the staff in 1966 in the 
newly created position of coordinator for veterinary affairs--a position 
designed to expand the Library's information resources in laboratory 
animal science, veterinary public health, comparative medicine, and the 
basic sciences.  He also assisted in updating veterinary terms in 
Medical Subject Headings and provided liaison between NLM and other 
Government agencies and the scientific community.

	Dr. Gluckstein also participated in NIH's effort to establish 
policies to reduce laboratory animal pain and stress, and in 1984 
compiled Laboratory animal welfare: a selected annotated bibliography, 
which has been updated yearly.  He has also contributed articles to such 
publications as Modern Veterinary Practice and the Journal of the 
American Veterinary Medical Association, and chapters to books such as 
Equine Medicine and Surgery, and The Biology of the Laboratory Rabbit.

	A diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive 
Medicine since 1966, Dr. Gluckstein is listed in Who's Who in America 
and American Men and Women of Science.  

	NLM staff wish him well in his retirement, one which promises to 
include consulting and writing in the field of veterinary public health.
Archivist Sheila O'Neill Joins NLM's Staff

	Ms. Sheila O'Neill recently joined the staff as archives and 
manuscripts librarian in the History of Medicine Division.  She replaces 
Peter Hirtle who is now working at the National Archives.  

	Ms. O'Neill was previously with Northwestern University in 
Evanston, Illinois, as assistant university archivist.  Before taking up 
her post at Northwestern, she was the archivist for the History of 
Science and Technology division at Bancroft Library, the University of 
California, Berkeley.  She has a masters in anthropology from the 
University of California, Davis Campus, and another in library science 
from UC-Berkeley.  

Dr. Bridgman Dies

	Dr. Charles Floyd Bridgman died suddenly of a heart attack at his 
home in La Jolla, California, on January 30th.  

	Dr. Bridgman was on the staff of the National Library of Medicine 
from 1970 until he retired from public service in 1986.  He was the 
director of the Library's National Medical Audiovisual Center from 1970-
75.  He also served as the Library's associate director for educational 
resources development and as health sciences administrator, directing 
innovative projects involving the application of information technology 
in health sciences education.  

	During retirement, he and Dr. Ira Telford authored Introduction to 
Functional Histology, the first textbook for health professions 
education that linked print materials with videodiscs.  The textbook was 
an outgrowth of his work on multimedia, visualization, visual databases, 
and learning environments at the Library.  

	From 1965 to 1970, Dr. Bridgman was assistant professor of anatomy 
in the Department of Neurosciences and founder of the Office of Learning 
Resources at the School of Medicine, University of California, San 
Diego.  

	His most recent work while in "retirement" explored the use of 
animation to teach complex biomedical concepts.  

	Dr. Bridgman was a visionary, a humanitarian, and a teacher who 
was always kind and congenial.  He was loved and respected by those who 
knew and worked with him.  He will be missed very much.  A memorial 
scholarship fund has been established in Dr. Bridgman's name to aid 
students in the field of medical illustration.
--Craig Locatis

Editor's note: For further information, please contact Craig Locatis: 
(telephone) 301/496-6280; (Internet) lhc@occshost.nlm.nih.gov
 
NLM/NSF Seek Internet Connection Grant Applications

	Through an interagency agreement with the National Science 
Foundation (NSF), the National Library of Medicine will award, in Fiscal 
Year 1994, 10 to 12 "basic" Internet connection grants ($30,000 each) 
and 5 to 6 "multi-institution" grants ($50,000 each) to health science 
institutions.  Eligible institutions include public and private 
nonprofit health science organizations.  This grant program is part of 
NLM's response to the interagency High Performance Computing and 
Communications (HPCC) initiative.  

	The HPCC program recognizes "that unprecedented computational 
power and its creative use are needed to investigate and understand a 
wide range of scientific and engineering 'grand challenge' problems."  
Some of challenges identified are of obvious interest to biomedicine: 
the National Research and Educational Network (NREN), biotechnology, 
transmission of digital images, intelligent gateways to retrieve 
information from life sciences knowledge sources, innovations in 
educational techniques, among others.

	High-speed computer networks are an essential component of the 
HPCC program.  The current Internet, an international computer network 
built upon the conventions of the Transmission Control Program/Internet 
Protocol (TCP/IP), will evolve into the NREN as faster networking 
technologies are developed.  Through Internet, research workers, health 
care providers, and administrators can access a rich variety of 
information resources, including libraries, databases, and 
supercomputers. 

	NLM's connection grant program would permit a medical center to 
link up to the Internet directly or through the main campus, or to link 
its medical school to affiliated hospitals.  For both medical centers 
and local hospitals, Internet access will permit direct connection to 
NLM databases through Grateful Med, a use of modern technology which 
ideally fulfills the high-priority NLM objective of promoting 
information transfer by national networks.

	It is expected that most institutions will propose the straight-
forward solution of connecting to Internet by installing an IP 
Router/Gateway on their local networks, although alternative proposals 
are also welcome.  Such a gateway would link the local network to an 
appropriate mid-level network by means of leased or dial-up 
communication circuits of varying speeds (9600 bits per second to 1.5 
million bits per second).  The gateway to the Internet should be 
available to all users at the institution.  Ideally the institution will 
have installed a high-speed network and have adopted the TCP/IP 
protocols as standard.  Where other networking protocols are used, the 
institution will be responsible for the installation of any additional 
network gateway systems required to resolve the protocol conversion 
issues in order to provide connectivity to the Internet gateway to all 
users at the institution.  

	The application submission date is May 15, 1994. General inquiries 
and requests for the "Connections to NSFNET Program Announcement" should 
be made to the NSFNET Program, Division of Networking and Communications 
Research and Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Room 1175, Arlington, VA 22230 (telephone: 703/306-1949).  
Inquiries may also be directed to:  Mrs. Frances E. Johnson, Extramural 
Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894 (telephone:  
301/496-4221).

	Applications should be prepared and submitted in accordance with 
the guidelines provided in the NSFNET brochure, Grants for Research and 
Education in Science and Engineering (GRESE), NSF 94-2 (formerly NSF 92-
89).  Single copies of this brochure are available at no cost from the 
NSF Forms and Publications Unit (telephone:  703/306-1130, or via e-
mail: pubs@nsf (Bitnet) or pub@nsf.gov (Internet).  It is important to 
indicate on the application that the proposal is in response to the NLM 
program announcement.

"The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century"
	An exhibit featuring the art of May Lesser opened in the Library's 
main lobby in January.  In works with titles such as "Therapeutical 
Apheresis," "Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3-D," and "Waiting for a New 
Heart," Ms. Lesser explores many contemporary issues in biomedicine.  In 
the artist's words, "...I show the human side of medicine through images 
of physicians at work in their research laboratories, by their patients' 
bedside, in the operating room, and at conference and studies, but now 
aided with new knowledge."

	Ms. Lesser--daughter, sister, wife, and mother of physicians--has 
been "on-the-inside" of the medical centers at UCLA, the University of 
Southern California and Tulane University.  She has had numerous 
exhibitions, including three previous ones at the National Library of 
Medicine, and her works are in the permanent collection of the Library 
and of collections in universities and museums throughout the country.  
Her color etchings and drawings have appeared on eleven covers of JAMA.  
She has also published to books, The Art of Learning Medicine (New York, 
1974), and An Artist in the University Medical Center (New Orleans, 
1989). 

	The exhibit runs through April 15th.  The Library's hours are 
Monday and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, 
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  For 
further information, contact Ms. Margaret Kaiser of the NLM's History of 
Medicine Division, 301/496-5405.  

NLM Serial Gaps

	NLM regularly seeks the help of the medical library community in 
filling gaps in its serial collections.  If you can provide any of these 
items we would be most grateful.  Please address serial issues to:
	National Library of Medicine
	TSD-GAPS Attn: C. Fields
	Bethesda, MD 20894

Aids Research and Human Retroviruses 8:7, 1992
AJR.  American Journal of Roentgenology 157:2, 1991  
Akusherstvo I Ginekologiia 2-3, 1993     
American Journal of Cardiology  55:14-15, 1985; 58:14-15, 1986
American Journal of Epidemiology 136:1, 1992
American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 49:5, 1992
American Journal of Public Health 82:4, 1992
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 38:2, 1988
Anesteziologiia I Reanimatologiia 1-3, 1993
Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology. Supplement 157,1992
Archives of Ophthalmology 110:12, 1992
Arkhiv Patologii 55:1-3, 1993
Artificial Organs 16:2-5, 1992
Biochemical Genetics 18:1-12, 1980
Cellular Immunology  132:1, 1991
Chest 68:5-6, 1975
Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 34:4, 1991
Clinical Pediatrics 31:7_8,10-11, 1992
Clinical Symposia 44:4, 1992
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 2:4, 1986
Current Problems in Pediatrics 8:1-2, 1977; 10:1-2, 1979; 13:9-12, 1983
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 35:7, 1993
Digestive Diseases and Sciences 36:4,6,8,11, 1991
Gaceta Sanitaria 7:34, 1993
Journal of the Florida Medical Association 80:7, 1993
Klinische Anasthesiologie und Intensivetherapie 36, 1989
Ortopediia Travmatologiia I Protezirovanie 1-2, 1993
Roczniki Akademii Medycznej Im. Juliana Marchlewskiego W Bialymstoku.  
Supplement 44-45: 1989   

1994 NLM Update Satellite Broadcast

	All systems were go at noon ET on January 21st for the 1994 NLM 
Update (News, November-December 1993).  The broadcast focused on 1994 
MeSH and MEDLINE changes, as well as highlights of other NLM databases 
and services.  The information was presented by NLM staff, and 
interactive question-and-answer periods were included.

	Five videocassette copies of the "1994 NLM Update" (approximately 
2.5 hours) will be sent to each Regional Medical Library.  These may be 
freely copied as no copyright restrictions apply.  Copies of the four-
minute videotape "NLM and the Internet," shown during the broadcast by 
Dr. Daniel Masys, will also soon be available on loan from the Regional 
Medical Libraries.  (This video is also shown within the "1994 NLM 
Update" videocassette.)

The panel listens as Anne White-Olson answers an AIDSLINE question 
phoned in during the broadcast.
[Photo C, x 18 picas]
Dr. Masys faces the cameras as he explains the finer points of Internet.  
[Photo D, x 18 picas]
Marjorie Cahn, of NLM's National Information Center on Health Services 
Research and Health Care Technology, and moderator Doris McMillon 
introduce a taped segment.

National Library of Medicine Grant Awards--Fiscal Year 1993
Through the authorities of Public Health Service laws, NLM offers grants 
for publications, library resources, and research, and individual 
fellowships in medical informatics.  New grant awards for fiscal year 
1993 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: 301/496-42221.

Biotechnology Research Grants

o Jude W. Shavilik, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
Conference of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
$10,000

o Peter Szolovits, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, MA) A Clinical Geneticist's Workstation
$238,999
Publication Grants

o Charlotte G. Borst, Ph.D. (University of Alabama at Birmingham, 
Birmingham, AL) Midwives, Physicians, and the Professionalization of 
Childbirth
$35,000
o Kathleen W. Jones, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, 
VA) The Development of American Child Psychiatry, 1900-1940
$37,426

o Nancy J. Tomes, Ph.D. (SUNY - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY) Spreading 
The Germ Theory of Disease
$21,902

o Joel A. Vilensky, Ph.D. (Indiana University School of Medicine, 
Indianapolis, IN) Evaluation of the Denny-Brown Research Collection
$36,561

Information Science Research Grants
o Colin B. Begg, Ph.D. (Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY) 
Detection of Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis
$65,696

o MaryEllen C. Sievert, Ph.D. (University of Missouri - Columbia, 
Columbia, MO) Retrieval from Full-Text Medical Databases   
$185,415
Small Business Innovative Research Grants

o Robert F. Cotterman, Ph.D. (Unicon Research Corporation, Santa Monica, 
CA) Compiling and Documenting the CPS on Compact Disc
$39,027

o John F. Neas, M.D., Ph.D. (Biomedical Imaging Technology, Overland 
Park, KS) Embryology by Computer Aided Instruction	
$39,750

Medical Informatics Research Grants

o Arthur S. Elstein, Ph.D. (University of Illinois - Chicago College of 
Medicine, Chicago, IL) Effect of Decision Support Systems on Clinical 
Reasoning
$178,661

o Conrade C. Jaffe, M.D. (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 
CT) Indexing of Electronic Medical Image Databases  
$254,877

o Ira Joseph Kalet, Ph.D. (University of Washington School of Medicine, 
Seattle, WA) A Cancer Radiotherapy Expert System Using Simulation
$191,863

o William A. Knaus, M.D. (George Washington University School of 
Medicine, Washington, D.C.) Evaluation of Apache III Clinical 
Information System
$171,400

Fellowship Awards

o Joan Ash (Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR) Information 
Technology Diffusion at IAIMS Sites
$51,504

o Paul A. Gray, Jr., Ph.D. (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC) 
Developing Patient Outcomes from Clinical Observations
$45,750
o Denise P. Radow (University of Washington Health Sciences Library, 
Seattle WA) IAIMS Coordination and Management
$41,000

Information Access Grants

o Lavonda K. Broadnax (D.C. General Hospital, Washington, D.C.) 
Enhancing the (D.C. Area) Network with Basic Technology
$59,353

o Judy F. Burnham (University of South Alabama School of Medicine, 
Mobile, AL) Information Access for Rural Health Care Professionals
$12,000

o Kimberly M. Granath (St. Patrick Hospital Corporation, Missoula, MT) 
Western Montana Medical Libraries Access Network
$10,567

o Deborah Lewis (Toledo Hospital, Toledo OH) Northwest Ohio Rural 
Medical Library Consortium
$65,119
o Pamela M. Reynolds (Southwest Georgia AHEC, Inc, Albany GA) SOWEGA 
Information Delivery Electronic Access-IDEA Sites
$94,422

o Jean W. Sayre (Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine, 
Rootstown, OH) NEOMEDNET-The Medical Information Connection for NEOUCOM
 $145,161

o Christopher Stater (Ellis Hospital, New York, NY) Ellis Hospital 
Online Public Access Catalog
$11,920
o Vicki Tutterow (Mountain AHEC, Asheville NC) Mental Health Access 
Network and Information Consortium	
$76,508

o Lorene R. Valentine (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, 
KS) Medical Library Information Network of Kansas (MEDLINK)
$101,106
Information Systems Grants

o Rosalind F. Dudden (National Jewish Center for Immunology and 
Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO) The SALS Enhancement Project
$179,013
o Susan M. Grossman (Millard Fillmore Health Education and Research 
Foundation, Buffalo, NY) Health Care Information Access, Consortium 
Model
$149,346

o Mark P. Knudson, M.D. (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 
Winston-Salem, NC) Improving Information Access in Community Clinical 
Sites
$55,976

IAIMS--Resource Grant

o William W. Stead, M.D. (Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, 
Nashville, TN) Fast-Track Provision of IAIMS
$149,998

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.)

Ackerman MJ. High performance computing and communications [editorial] 
Radiographics 1993 Sep;13(5):1129-30 _ _

D'Alessandro MP, AckAckerman MJ, Sparks SM. Educational Technology 
Network: a computer conferencing system dedicated to applications of 
computers in radiology practice, research, and education. J Digit 
Imaging 1993 Nov;6(4):237-40.

Keister LH. User types and queries: impact on image access systems. In: 
Fidel R, Hahn TB, Rasmussen EM, Smith PJ. Challenges in indexing 
electronic text and images; 1994, Learned Information: Medford, NJ. p. 
7-22. 

Lindberg DAB. Information access enhanced at NLM.  US Med 1994 Jan;30(1-
2):37-8.

Lindberg DA, Humphreys BL, McCray AT. The Unified Medical Language 
System. Methods Inf Med 1993 Aug;32(4):281-91. _ _

Lindberg DAB. Global information infrastructure. Int J Biomed Comput 
1994;34:13-9.