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Marcetich Named Head of Index Section
Former NLM Associate Joined NLM Staff in 1979
James Marcetich is the new head of NLM's Index Section.
The Index Section is responsible for the indexing, editing,
keyboarding and input of the world's biomedical journal literature
for the MEDLINE database, plus Index Medicus and other NLM
publications. Indexing involves analyzing and assigning to each
article descriptive headings selected from Medical Subject Headings
(MeSH®), the controlled vocabulary that contains over 18,000 terms.
Over ten million articles have been indexed for MEDLINE since the
inception of MEDLARS in 1966, and more than 400,000 are added to the
database each year.
As a unit head in the section for the past 12 years, Marcetich
has supervised the work of indexers and revisers. His experience
also includes: coordinating the online indexing system, used by
approximately 100 in-house, contract, and foreign center indexers;
developing with NLM's computer and technology staff the initial
programs and procedures for accepting sgml-tagged data from
publishers; serving as the section's lead on the development of the
library's new indexing and maintenance system; and working with
NLM's indexing contracts.
Before becoming a unit head, James was an indexer and reviser for
eight years. He was a zoology major at the University of Wisconsin
and did graduate work in bacteriology, biochemistry, and other areas
before receiving his degree in library science. He also worked as
the Information Specialist at the Lithium Information Center in the
Psychiatry Department of the University of Wisconsin before coming
to NLM as a Library Associate in NLM's postgraduate training program
in 1979. |
