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The National Library Of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) helps you find answers to all your health care questions. The NLM’s medical library collection has more than 8 million books, photographs, microfilms, journals and other items. It’s a resource for health care, biomedicine, and the humanities, technology and science as it they relate to biomedicine. NLM offers a website call MedlinePlus that is one service of the NLM to direct you to the information to help answer health questions. This website also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. NLM is located on the campus of the national institutes of health in Bethesda in Maryland and it’s the largest medical library in the world. There are the rarest medical works and the oldest medical history collections inside this library. The library offers a reading room for convenience or items can be requested through the interlibrary loan system. The National Library of Medicine once published a monthly guide to the articles in five thousand journals. The guide called Index Medicus was begun in 1879. The final issue was published in December 2004. The information is now offered at its website call PubMed.

In February 2003, the NLM launched a virtual customer service representative named Cosmo. Cosmo is a navigation tool used to guide customers to information on the NLM web site. Users can get help finding information on consumer health, drug facts, medical databases, grant information and the online catalog access. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is run by NLM. The NCBI houses the biological databases accessible through the internet’s Entrez search engine.

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Yes You Can Earn Library Science Degrees Online

Advancements in modern telecommunications have made it possible to earn library science degrees online, leading to many exciting positions in multimedia administration. Media specialists and librarians can truly benefit from online library science degrees, and you can find several top colleges to help you achieve success.

Diplomas in library science are offered at several levels, from simple certification all the way to graduate degrees. For entry-level employment as a library assistant or media assistant, a professional certificate or associate degree will probably suffice. Perhaps better would be a bachelor degree with an emphasis on a specialty, such as child and youth literature or database management, for instance.

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