What does RML stand for?

Establishment of the Regional Medical Library (RML) Network in 1967 marked a major change in NLM's role from being a central source for medical information to serving as a comprehensive backup resource to a hierarchical RML Network made up of 11 geographically dispersed regional libraries, 100 academic medical libraries, and some 500-600 hospital and other local health libraries (Bunting, 1987, p.

He served as librarian at the University of Chicago Laboratories for Applied Sciences from 1959 to 1960, and as Director of the Midwest Regional Medical Library from 1968 to 1971.

Tribal Connections is a project of the UW Regional Medical Library.

While previous efforts had been placed on networking libraries, this plan sought to improve information access "by NLM and all of the libraries in the Regional Medical Library (RML) network .

The Regional Medical Library Network, now the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), supported by the National Library of Medicine, has been the foundation for interlibrary loan among health sciences libraries since its inception in 1965.

Walker and Due (1986) credit the National Library of Medicine and its Regional Medical Library Program (now called the National Network of Libraries of Medicine), the Integrated Library System, the Integrated Academic Information Management System (IAIMS), and microcomputer technology.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine For more than twenty-five years, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has been providing special support for the dissemination of medical information across the United States through its Regional Medical Library Program (RMLP), now known as the NNLM.