National Library of Medicine Divisions


Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD Director	Betsy Humphreys Deputy Director	Donald King, MD Director, Research and Education

The NLM has seven major divisions

Library Operations (LO)
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Specialized Information Services (SIS)
Office of Health Information Programs Development (OHIPD)
Office of Computer and Communications Systems (OCCS)
Extramural Grants Program

Library Operations

Acquires, organizes, and preserves NLM's comprehensive archival collection of biomedical literature; produces authoritative indexing and cataloging records; builds and distributes bibliographic, directory, and full-text databases; reference service, and research assistance. Coordinates the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Mr. Sheldon Kotzin

LHNCBC

Conducts and supports research and development in the dissemination of high quality imagery, medical language processing, multimedia visualization, knowledge management, data mining, and machine-assisted indexing.

Clem McDonald, MD

NCBI

Collects, organizes, stores, and disseminates molecular biology, genetic information and analysis tools; and coordinates these efforts with researchers and scientists worldwide.

David Lipman, MD

SIS

Develops and maintains databases on adverse drug reactions, chemical structures, and has a large outreach program with minorities, including seminars, exhibits and cooperative ventures.

Marti Szczur - Acting

OHIPD

Responsible for three major functions: planning, developing and evaluating a nationwide NLM outreach and consumer health; programs to improve access to NLM information services among minority, rural, and under-served populations; conducting NLM's international programs which focus on battling Malaria and HIV/Aids in Africa.

Elliot Siegel, Ph.D.

OCCS

The computer networking backbone of the National Library of Medicine. The center provides professional programming services and computational and data processing to meet NLM program needs and support.

Simon Liu, Ph.D.

The Extramural Grants Program

Provides grants, contracts and fellowships to organizations and individuals interested in applying computers and telecommunication for improving storage, retrieval, access, and use of biomedical information.

Milton Corn, MD