Services - Information Retrieval Service

NML receives following computer-readable databases on CD-ROM and provides information retreival services to its users on topics of their interest :

1. MEDLINE
2. HEALTH STAR
3. EMBASE
4. AIDS LIBRARY
5. CANCER-CD

A list of references with annotations/abstracts is provided free of charge to requesting users. Interested users are also helped to conduct search for themselves.

Training Activities

NML being the National Library has been organizing training programmes for medical/health science librarians since 1980. It has organized 17 Orientation Courses in Health Science Librarianship, each of 5-6 weeks duration and trained over 150 librarians in the country. Besides, it has also conducted several training courses on specific topics like MEDLARS Searching, Computer Applications, Library Management Software, Indexing and Abstracting etc in different regions of the country. A National Workshop was held in May 1997 to evaluate these courses and modify/develop new courses.