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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 :
- MEDLINE
- HEALTH STAR
- EMBASE
- AIDS LIBRARY
- 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.
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