News from the NLM History of Medicine Division

Dear Colleagues, Greetings from the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division. In accordance with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and to promote social distancing, the National Library of Medicine Reading Rooms are closed to the public starting at Noon, Monday, March 16, 2020, until further

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News from the NLM History of Medicine Division

Greetings from the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division! Two recent news items involving the division will be of interest, if they have not already crossed your screen: NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2021 – Applications due by September 25, 2020.

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PubMed Training Tools for You and Your Patrons

The National Library of Medicine has updated and created new training materials for you to use and/or share with your patrons about the new PubMed. Quick Tour Videos (2 minutes each) *       PubMed: Find articles by author A brief tutorial on how to find articles by an author using PubMed. * 

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Register for Free: MeSH Changes and PubMed Searching

Every year, the Medical Subject Headings are updated. How does this affect your PubMed searches? What happens when a term gets changed, or added, or removed; or moved to a different part of the MeSH hierarchy? How do you accommodate vocabulary changes over time in your comprehensive searches? How do you check

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NLM History of Medicine lecture – Scientists’ Mind-Body Problems: Lobotomy, Science, and the Digital Humanities

Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held Thursday, September 19, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.  This special program will be the 2019 NLM James H. Cassedy Lecture in the

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NLM History of Medicine Lecture, May 23

Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held Thursday, May 23, from 2 pm to 3:00pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.  This special program will be the third annual NLM Michael E. DeBakey Lecture

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Applications now open for NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program 2019/2020 — deadline June 22

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2019/2020 fellowship. The application information has full program details, and details about past years’ cohorts and program reports are available on the AAHSL Leadership program webpage. Submit

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Webinar: NLM LinkOut Consolidation

Please join the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for a webinar to answer questions about the LinkOut Consolidation Announcement. A 15-minute presentation will go over what this consolidation means for you, and how to continue to see your library’s icon in PubMed. Following the presentation, there will be a 30-minute question and

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