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1997 NLM Invitation and MLA Meeting Reminder

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March 1997 [posted]

The theme of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA) is "Committed to Change. Ready for the Challenge." This year's meeting is being held at the Washington Convention Center in Seattle. Attendees are invited to come to Island I in the exhibit hall to visit with NLM staff and see demonstrations of various NLM products and services, including PubMed, Internet Grateful Med, and Grateful Med for Windows.

The NLM Online Users' "Lunch and Learn" session will be held on Sunday, May 25, 12:30-1:15 p.m. in Rooms 602-604. This meeting will provide an overview of developments in NLM's online services, including OLDMEDLINE, PubMed, DOCLINE and others. All attendees will receive a colorful memento from the Library.

The NLM Update will be held on Monday, May 26, 11:00 a.m.-noon, in Rooms 6A-6B. Dr. Lindberg, Director of NLM, will discuss promising new developments at the Library, including the Visible Human Project, the Human Gene Map and a new program to evaluate telemedicine products. Lois Ann Colaianni, NLM Associate Director of Library Operations, will discuss advances in this area of the Library including Relais, a streamlined system for interlibrary loan. Dr. David Lipman, Director of the Library's National Center for Biotechnology Information, will talk about PubMed.

The NN/LM (National Network of Libraries of Medicine) Outreach session will be held Monday, May 26, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Please check the program for the room number. This evaluation session will examine a Regional Medical Library enhancement project in Region 6 (the Pacific Northwest) involving Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

NLM will be presenting "Improving the NLM Home Page: From Logs to Links" at the MLA poster session, Monday, May 26, 4-6 p.m. and Tuesday, May 27, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Check your program for the location of the poster session.