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"Milestones in NLM® History" Web Page Available

"Milestones in NLM® History" Web Page Available. NLM Technical Bulletin. 2004 May–Jun;(338):e1.

June 04, 2004 [posted]

A new Web page, linked from "About the National Library of Medicine" at the entry entitled "History of NLM," is now available.

The Milestones in NLM History Web page offers a time line of important events in the Library's history, beginning with the Library's establishment in 1836, when it was known as the Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, and ending with the February 2000 launch of ClinicalTrials.gov.

You can access this page at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/nlmhistory.html.