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Printer-friendly VersionPLANNING PROCESS
In January 1985, NLM’s Board of Regents began to develop a 20 year Long Range Plan to guide the Library in using its human, physical, and financial resources to fulfill its mission. A broadly based process, involving the participation of librarians, health professionals, biomedical scientists, medical informaticians, computer scientists, and others whose interests were intertwined with the Library’s, culminated in the adoption of a report by the Board of Regents published in 1987.
Planning reports prepared
since then as supplements to the original Plan (also based on the work
of broadly based panels of outside experts) contain recommendations on
outreach to health professionals, electronic imaging, information
services for toxicology and environmental health, the education and
training of health science librarians, and, most recently, NLM’s
international programs. As a result of this ongoing planning effort, NLM
has taken major strides forward. For example, the concept of a National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) was born during a
planning
panel meeting.
In order to develop this Long Range Plan 2000–2005, a document called The NLM Track Record was prepared as a synthesis and summary of past planning efforts and a statement of where we are today. The Track Record was sent out to over 250 past planning panel members and other advisors for comment as well as being posted on the public NLM web site. The comments received from well over 100 individuals (see appendix 1) were reviewed by the NLM Board of Regents, who asked staff to incorporate a number of priorities into a new draft Plan for the n ext three to five years. A broadly representative group of NLM advisors met on December 1, 1999, to review that draft (see appendix 4). This draft reflects additional revisions prompted by comments and suggestions made at that meeting.
Last updated: 18 March 2001
First published: 18 March 2001
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