National Library of Medicine (NLM) definition - medical term
The world's largest
medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NLM has as its
mission to collect, organize, and make available biomedical science
information to investigators, educators, and practitioners and carry
out programs designed to strengthen medical library services in the
United States. Its electronic data bases, including MEDLINE, are used
extensively throughout the world.
The NLM is situated on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The
Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health
care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the
humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The NLM
collections stand at 5.3 million items--books, journals, technical
reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed
within the Library are medical history collections of old and rare
medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula. NLM is an invaluable
resource for all U.S. health science libraries and for medicine.
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