Open AccessBuilding better connections: the National Library of Medicine and public health
Author(s) -
Betsy L. Humphreys
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the medical library association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1558-9439
pISSN - 1536-5050
DOI - 10.3163/1536-5050.95.3.293
Subject(s) - outreach , public health , public health informatics , public relations , workforce , context (archaeology) , health informatics , hrhis , health policy , medicine , business , political science , nursing , geography , archaeology , law
The paper describes the expansion of the public health programs and services of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the 1990s and provides the context in which NLM's public health outreach programs arose and exist today.