The objective of NLM's Indexing Initiative (IND) is to investigate methods whereby automated indexing methods partially or completely substitute for current indexing practices. The project will be considered a success if methods can be designed and implemented that result in retrieval performance that is equal to or better than the retrieval performance of systems based principally on humanly a...

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) librarians provided support to the first thirteen panels sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research by conducting literature searches, providing document delivery, and preparing bibliographic databases. Since then, NLM has moved into a consulting role, helping panels link up with local members of the National Network of Libraries of Medici...

OBJECTIVE Usage of computer resources at the point of care has a positive effect on physician decision making. Pediatricians' information-seeking behaviors are not well characterized. The goal of this study was to characterize quantitatively the information-seeking behaviors of general pediatricians and specifically compare their use of computers, including digital libraries, before and after a...

J. Anim. Sci. 1997. 75:1431–1433 1Professor, Animal Science and Physiology, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695. 2John Donker, Ed Frederick, Ralph Grant, Don Otterby (all Univ. of Minn.), and Knud Jorgensen, Danish Dairy Federation, were enthusiastic in sharing their information and experiences. Culminating a quest of an unfaded copy of the photo, John Wilk, NCSU, trusted me with his. Dr. Carol Vreeland, N...

In 1992, as part of its high-performance computing and communications initiative, the National Library of Medicine decided to provide health sciences institutions with Internet connection grants similar to those offered to universities by the National Science Foundation. Although library involvement is not required, librarian and library uses have been the most common category in the applicatio...

The aim of the present study was to present a novel non-local mean (NLM) method to denoise diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in the tensor space. Compared with the original NLM method, which uses intensity similarity to weigh the voxel, the proposed method weighs the voxel using tensor similarity measures in the diffusion tensor space. Euclidean distance with rotational invariance, and Rieman...

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

The Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) works to organize and provide access to a wide range of environmental health and toxicology resources. In recent years, the demand for, and availability of, information on health issues related to natural and man-made emergencies and disasters has increased. Recognizing that access to i...