Army Medical Library (U.S.). Office of the Director. Deputy Director's correspondence, 1936-1969.

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Army Medical Library (U.S.). Office of the Director. Deputy Director's correspondence, 1936-1969.

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Scope and Contents: Primarily correspondence emanating from, and received by, AML's Deputy Director's Office during the tenure of Scott Adams during an important transitional period in NLM's history as it evolved from being the Army Medical Library. Topics in the first series of subject files include debates about federal scientific and medical information policy and NLM's role in indexing, computer systems, and information dissemination. Correspondence from various interest groups share their opinions about ongoing policy development, the growing information boom, and NLM's important role as a content provider, literature indexer, and information clearinghouse. Another major topic is NLM's recently established extramural grants program and its anticipated impact on medical publishing and informatics research. Related to both these topics are the folders titled "MEDLARS," which describe the earliest conceptualizations for a medical information indexing and retrieval system, "Publications Support" and "Research and development" and "National Research Council reports", all of which contain various correspondence, reports and analysis data. Of special note is the relationship between NLM and the National Research Council's Committee on the Army Medical Library ("Reports" folder), Charles Bernier's technical analysis of the original MEDLARS system (Series II), and the PHS Advisory Committee on Scientific Publications ("PHS Advisory Committee" folder).

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