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{{Merge|National Library of Medicine|date=April 2025}}{{Organization
|OrganizationName=National Library of Medicine
|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization)
|Mission=National Library of Medicine advances medicine and public health by providing global access to biomedical information and research.
|ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health (NIH)
|TopOrganization=Department of Health and Human Services
|CreationLegislation=Public Law 92-463
|Employees=1800
|Budget=$460 million (Fiscal Year 2023)
|OrganizationExecutive=Director
|Services=Medline/PubMed; ClinicalTrials.gov; Genetics Home Reference; Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET); Environmental Health Information
|HeadquartersLocation=39.00066, -77.10387
|HeadquartersAddress=8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
|Website=https://www.nlm.nih.gov
}}
{{short description|World's largest medical library.}}
{{short description|World's largest medical library.}}
{{Infobox library
| name = United States<br />National Library of Medicine
| logo =
| logo_size =
| logo_alt = Logo of the National Library of Medicine
| image = United States National Library of Medicine 1999.jpg
| image_size =
| alt = National Library of Medicine in 1999
| caption = Library in 1999
| type = [[Medical library]]
| scope =
| established = {{Start date and age|1836}}<ref name = briefhistory>"[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/briefhistory.html A Brief History of NLM]". ''National Library of Medicine''. Retrieved September 29, 2016.</ref><br>(as the ''Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army'')<ref name=175years>"[https://apps.nlm.nih.gov/175/milestones.cfm Our Milestones]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216043824/http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/175/milestones.cfm |date=2013-02-16 }} National Library of Medicine. Retrieved September 29, 2016.</ref>
| dissolved =
| ref_legal_mandate = Public Law 941 – August 3, 1956, an amendment to Title III of the [[Public Health Service Act]]
| location = [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]]
| coordinates = {{coord|38.995951|-77.098832|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
| branch_of = [[National Institutes of Health]]
| num_branches =
| items_collected = books, journals, manuscripts, images, and multimedia; genomic, chemical, toxicological, and environmental data; drug information; clinical trials data; health data standards; software; and consumer health information
| collection_size = {{Format price|27846111}} (2015)
| criteria = Acquiring, organizing, and preserving the world's scholarly biomedical literature
| legal_deposit =
| req_to_access = Open to the public
| annual_circulation = 309,817 (2015)
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| budget = {{Currency|341119000|USD}}<ref name= 2015-2016-budget>"[https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3020/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22National+Library+of+Medicine%5C%22%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=2 H.R. 3020 – Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016]". [[114th United States Congress|114th Congress]]. 2015.</ref>
| director = [[Patricia Flatley Brennan]], [[Registered nurse|RN]]&nbsp;[[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]<ref name= welcomes/>
| num_employees = 1,741
| website = {{URL|https://www.nlm.nih.gov|nlm.nih.gov}}
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| country = [[United States]]
| library_logo = Logo of U.S. National Library of Medicine.png
| library_name = United States National Library of Medicine
}}


The '''United States National Library of Medicine''' ('''NLM'''), operated by the [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]], is the world's largest [[medical library]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=DeBakey ME |title=The National Library of Medicine. Evolution of a premier information center |journal=JAMA |volume=266 |issue=9 |pages=1252–58 |year=1991 |pmid=1870251|doi=10.1001/jama.266.9.1252}}</ref>
The '''United States National Library of Medicine''' ('''NLM'''), operated by the [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]], is the world's largest [[medical library]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=DeBakey ME |title=The National Library of Medicine. Evolution of a premier information center |journal=JAMA |volume=266 |issue=9 |pages=1252–58 |year=1991 |pmid=1870251|doi=10.1001/jama.266.9.1252}}</ref>
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{{For|details of the pre-1956 history of the Library|Library of the Surgeon General's Office}}
{{For|details of the pre-1956 history of the Library|Library of the Surgeon General's Office}}


The precursor of the National Library of Medicine, established in 1836, was the [[Library of the Surgeon General's Office]], a part of the office of the [[Surgeon General of the United States Army]]. The [[Armed Forces Institute of Pathology]] and its Medical Museum were founded in 1862 as the [[National Museum of Health and Medicine|Army Medical Museum]]. Throughout their history the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the Army Medical Museum often shared quarters. From 1866 to 1887, they were housed in [[Ford's Theatre]] after production there was stopped, following the assassination of President [[Abraham Lincoln]].{{cn|date=March 2024}}
The precursor of the National Library of Medicine, established in 1836, was the [[Library of the Surgeon General's Office]], a part of the office of the [[Surgeon General of the United States Army]]. The [[Armed Forces Institute of Pathology]] and its Medical Museum were founded in 1862 as the [[National Museum of Health and Medicine|Army Medical Museum]]. Throughout their history the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the Army Medical Museum often shared quarters. From 1866 to 1887, they were housed in [[Ford's Theatre]] after production there was stopped, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.{{cn|date=March 2024}}


In 1956, the library collection was transferred from the control of the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]] to the [[United States Public Health Service|Public Health Service]] of the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] and renamed the National Library of Medicine, through the instrumentality of [[Frank Bradway Rogers]], who was the director from 1956 to 1963. The library moved to its current quarters in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, in 1962.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
In 1956, the library collection was transferred from the control of the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]] to the [[United States Public Health Service|Public Health Service]] of the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] and renamed the National Library of Medicine, through the instrumentality of [[Frank Bradway Rogers]], who was the director from 1956 to 1963. The library moved to its current quarters in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, in 1962.{{cn|date=March 2024}}
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