Visualizing the Virtual Library:
Information Technologies Under Development at the
National Library of Medicine

Daniel R. Masys, M.D.
Director
Lister Hill National Center
for Biomedical Communications

Background

Lister Hill Center history
- 1968 Congressional resolution
- Satellite Communications
- MEDLINE prototype
The Lister Hill Center today
- Mission and resources
- Research areas
  1. Biomedical Information Science
    - Database R&D
    - Expert systems
    - Natural(?) Language Processing
    - The Unified Medical Language System project
  2. Digital Image and Communications Engineering
  3. Computer-assisted Health Professions Education