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In 1956, the library collection was transferred from the control of the U.S. Department of Defense to the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and renamed the National Library of Medicine, through the instrumentality of Frank Bradway Rogers, who was the director from 1956 to 1963.
Frank Bradway Rogers (December 31, 1914 – July 27, 1987) was a medical doctor and librarian who was instrumental in changing the Army Medical Library into the National Library of Medicine. [1] He helped develop an electronic system of storing and retrieving information called Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System ( MEDLARS ) which ...
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The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) was a digital curation collaborative among several medical libraries which promoted free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. The MHL is digitized books and journals and worked to expand to the digitization of archival materials and still images.
MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
PubMed is a openly-accessible free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
The Interuniversity Health Library (French: Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé) is an inter-university medical library part of the network of 20 libraries of the Paris Cité University, in Paris, France. It is the heir to the library of the former Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, whose origins date back to 1391. [1]
On 3 August 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the legislation which transformed the "Armed Forces Medical Library" into the "National Library of Medicine". The Library collection was thus transferred from the control of the United States Department of Defense to that of the PHS of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.