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The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers.
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Monday, January 24, 2011

NLM is 175 years old

NLM started in 1836 as a few books in the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army. Today part of NIH, NLM is the world’s largest medical library and the developer of electronic information services, delivering trillions of bytes of data daily to millions of people around the world.

Source:http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2011/01_21_2011/story4.htm

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