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Author: Cummings, Martin Marc, 1920-2011
Title: The NLM and Medical Education, 1969
MMC Commentary: This paper was written for the Journal of Medical Education and is directed to that audience. I explain that the National Library of Medicine's aim was to develop a national health communications resource to be shared freely on a dedicated basis. The paper describes the biomedical communications network, which is the principal function of the Lister Hill Center. The network was based on the tenet that educational processes must be coupled with information resources. The paper describes the components of the network, particularly the specialized educational services component and its objectives.
Subject terms:
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Communications Media
Computer Systems
Computer Communication Networks
Information Storage and Retrieval
Access to Information
Communication
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
National Medical Audiovisual Center
ILIAC 4 Computer
Computer Assisted Instruction System
NASA ATS-1 Satellite
Compact Cassette Tape Recorder
Micro Projector
Interactive Television

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