The NLM Web Collecting and Archiving Working Group is identifying and selecting digital content documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. This effort is part of NLM’s ever-growing global health events web archive collection, scoping and running crawls of content, reviewing archived sites for quality, and adding metadata. Including more than 7,000 seed URLs and 2TB of data, the collection includes federal, state, and local government COVID-19 pages, websites of aid organizations and non-governmental organizations, and content documenting life in quarantine, prevention measures, vaccine development, and the experiences of healthcare workers, patients, and more.
The working group engages with other cultural heritage organizations archiving the history of COVID-19. This includes a group spearheaded by the leadership of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the consortium of federal agencies, the Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Section, the Archive-It community, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance; and is contributing to and following the growing list of institutions collecting COVID-19 related content maintained by the Documenting the Now project. NLM also participates as an institutional contributor to a broader International Internet Preservation Consortium Novel Coronavirus outbreak web archive collection.
Content can be submitted to NLM’s Global Health Events collection at nlmwebcollecting@nlm.nih.gov.
Learn more about these efforts:
Journal of the Medical Library Association
Government Executive
National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the vital role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities! This short video, showing librarians from the past and present, is one way NLM is celebrating. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and see what other amazing things we are doing at NLM! Watch Now!
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NCBI Log-in Changes Coming in June 2021
In an effort to enhance the security of NCBI accounts, we will be transitioning to 3rd-party logins. Third-party logins are those set through eRA Commons, Google, or a university or institutional point of access. Starting in June 2021, you will no longer be able to create an NCBI username, password; a wizard will display when logging into accounts to help users transition to a 3rd-party login.
If you currently use a 3rd-party login to access your NCBI account, you don’t have to do anything. This change will not affect the actual data in your account, such as your MyBibliography, SciENcv, or submission data. The only thing that is changing are the credentials you use to access your account.
If you only have NCBI-managed credentials, follow the five easy steps outlined below. If you have any questions, check out NCBI’s FAQ page, or email NCBI at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov for more information.
5 steps to link your NCBI-managed credentials to a 3rd-party account login option:
- Login to NCBI the way you usually do.
- Click on your username on the right-hand corner of the top bar to load your NCBI Account Settings page.
- If your Settings page looks like Figure 1, meaning you have a “Native NCBI Account” username and password and have no linked accounts – then you will need to add a linked account.
- To add a linked account, click the “Change” button under Linked Accounts.
- You may choose several options for a linked account including the following:
- University/institutional
- login.gov
Building 38A construction and renovations continue on the 9th floor and 4th floor conference room. Outside work on the NLM power utility building has begun. Check out new photos below.
Building 38A, 9th floor construction and renovation.
Building 38A, 9th floor construction and renovation.
Building 38A, 4th floor conference room renovation (temporary Lindberg Room).
NLM power utility building under construction.
Welcome to Kimberly Thomas, MPH, who joined us in March as the NLM Strategic Evaluation Officer in the Office of Strategic Initiatives.
Kimberly is a data scientist and public health expert who comes to NLM after 17 years leading program evaluation and using surveillance data to drive decision-making at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She was drawn to NLM by the opportunity to collaborate and lead efforts that tell the story of the Library’s vast contribution to advancing health and biomedical knowledge. Kimberly says she’s eager to learn all she can about NIH and NLM, while also “sharing [her] passion for accessible, utilization-focused evaluation.”
Congratulations to Diane Boehr, Head, Cataloging & Metadata Management Section, who will retire on April 30. Sign a virtual card or donate toward a gift by contacting Elizabeth Lilker by April 27.
Julie Adamo, alumni Associate Fellow 2010-2011 accepted an appointment as Head of Collection Development and Management, Smith College Libraries, Northampton, MA. In this position, Julie will manage print and electronic collection development and management for the Smith College Libraries, supervise a staff of 8, and oversee the Libraries’ materials budget of $4 million. Julie expects to provide strategic direction for collection decisions based on data collection and assessment, curricular and research needs, and available financial resources.
Alumni Associate Fellow Stacy Brody was honored alongside librarians Elaine R. Hicks and Sara Loree as Library Journal’s 2021 Librarians of the Year. Stacy, Elaine, and Sara were honored for their work in developing the Librarian Reserve Corps, a program that vets, indexes, and helps disseminate tens of thousands of health resources about SARS-CoV-2. When we reached Stacy to congratulate her, she had this to say about her time as an NLM Associate Fellow, “Working with you and with all the wonderful, amazing people at NLM during the Associate Fellowship gave me the knowledge, skills, and network to hit the ground running with this.” Also acknowledged for their work in this effort were Robin Featherstone, alumni Associate Fellow, Sharon Han, second-year NLM Associate Fellow at NNLM PSR, and Katie Funk, NCBI, NLM. Stacy Brody is currently working as a reference and instruction health sciences librarian at Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University.
Karen Gutzman, alumni Associate Fellow, 2012-2013, and Head of Research Assessment and Communications at the Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center, Northwestern University, has received the Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year. The Brodman Award is bestowed by the Medical Library Association (MLA), a global, nonprofit educational organization, with a membership of more than 400 institutions and 3,000 professionals in the health information field.
IRP Tenure-Track or Tenure-Eligible Investigator in Clinical Data Science
IRP Tenure-Track or Tenure-Eligible Investigator in Biomedical Image Processing
NLM staff recently learned of the passing of two former employees, Dr. William “Bill” Hole and Mr. Daniel “Dan” Tonkery.
Dr. Bill Hole passed in the fall of 2020 at the age of 78. After graduating from medical school at Ohio State, he spent two years doing medical work in Nigeria. Upon returning to the U.S., he conducted medical research. Dr. Hole then served as the NLM lead for the development and maintenance of the UMLS Metathesaurus from 1989 to his retirement in 2007, when he was also presented the Regents Award.
Mr. Dan Tonkery, who passed away in March, began at NLM as an Associate Fellow, working on a range of projects throughout the Library, including selecting the online communication centers for Medline expansion efforts, assisting with grant proposals, reporting Reference Room duty, and cataloging. He also worked directly for the, then Associate Director, Joe Leiter. This project was intended to last only six weeks, but instead continued for his nine-year tenure at NLM. When he left NLM in 1979, he was Chief of the Technical Services Division.
Following his departure, he remained committed to the Associate program for many years and served as one of the outside advisers/participants in the development of the 2000 - 2005 NLM Plan. Speaking about his time at the Library, he said that he, “saw how things were really done behind the scenes and it more than prepared me to become a CEO of multiple companies and play in the big leagues. I had the confidence to do almost anything and hold my own with the Board of Directors, investment bankers, venture staff, and any other powerful group.”
NLM HIV/AIDS Activities on Wiki
NLM has a new HIV/AIDS Activities Wiki page, where staff can find minutes from the NIH AIDS Executive Committee meetings and other Office of AIDS Research meetings that NLM representatives attend. This is also a resource for information on NLM’s HIV/AIDS Coordination activities.
Trans-NLM Social Media
NLM's Social Media Committee strives to amplify the One NLM message and encourage collaboration across library divisions. Eight divisions are represented by 14 committee members. The committee began as a social media working group and collaborated over the course of a year to establish the NLM Social Media Guidelines and best practices for accounts across NLM. The group decided to continue as a committee and, recently, created a charter that outlines the committee’s role going forward as a collaborative, innovative force for amplifying NLM's voice across social media platforms. Check out the NLM YouTube video featuring the Trans-NLM Social Media Working Group.
Click on the play button to learn more about the foundations of NLM’s Social Media Committee
UNITE RFI Submissions Provide feedback on the approaches NIH can take to advance racial equity, diversity, and inclusion within all facets of the biomedical research workforce and expand research to eliminate or lessen health disparities and inequities.
Closes 04/09 at 11:59 pm
NLM Town Hall - April
04/20 at 1:45 pm
NLM Board of Scientific Counselors
04/22 at 11:00 am
NLM Associate Fellow Workshop with NLM’s Office of Communications and Public Liaison
04/23 at 9:00 am – Save the Date! All NLM Staff are welcome to attend. Please watch for a broadcast email with Zoom information.
Timely and Actionable: Navigating NNLM Outreach and Engagement in a Global Pandemic. Presented by Sharon Han, NLM 2nd year Associate Fellow at NNLM Pacific Southwest Region at UCLA.
05/06 at 1:00 pm
NLM Board of Regents Meeting
05/11 at 10:00 am
Data Science Spring Fling
04/09 at 10:30 am – Fundamentals Lightning Talks
04/15 at 1:15 pm – Mentorship Project Showcase Session 1
04/21 at 2:00 pm – Mentorship Project Showcase Session 2
NLM Intramural Research Program (IRP) Seminars
04/20 at 11 am – Po-Ting Lai
04/22 at 3 pm – Ghada Zamzmi
04/27 at 11 am – Qingyu Chen
04/29 at 3 pm – Stefan Jaeger
05/04 at 11 am – Soumitra Pal
05/06 at 3 pm – Mehdi Bagheri Hamaneh
05/11 at 11 am – Wei Yan
Mandatory Training: Implicit Bias
Due 05/28 for all staff and contractors
Spring Cherry Blossoms at Lister Hill
