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| {{short description|World's largest medical library.}} | | {{short description|World's largest medical library.}} |
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| | name = United States<br />National Library of Medicine
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| | logo_alt = Logo of the National Library of Medicine
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| | image = United States National Library of Medicine 1999.jpg
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| | alt = National Library of Medicine in 1999
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| | caption = Library in 1999
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| | type = [[Medical library]]
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| | 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>
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| | ref_legal_mandate = Public Law 941 – August 3, 1956, an amendment to Title III of the [[Public Health Service Act]]
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| | location = [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]]
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| | coordinates = {{coord|38.995951|-77.098832|display=inline,title|format=dms}}
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| | branch_of = [[National Institutes of Health]]
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| | 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
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| | collection_size = {{Format price|27846111}} (2015)
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| | criteria = Acquiring, organizing, and preserving the world's scholarly biomedical literature
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| | req_to_access = Open to the public
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| | 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>
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| | director = [[Patricia Flatley Brennan]], [[Registered nurse|RN]] [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]<ref name= welcomes/>
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| | num_employees = 1,741
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| | website = {{URL|https://www.nlm.nih.gov|nlm.nih.gov}}
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| | country = [[United States]]
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| | library_logo = Logo of U.S. National Library of Medicine.png
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| | library_name = United States National Library of Medicine
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| 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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