The HAM-TMC Library will be closed on Thursday November 26 in observance of Thanksgiving Holiday.

The Library will be open on  Friday November 27,  from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Regular hours resume on Saturday November 28.

*No reference services will be available on Friday.

We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

L. Maximilian Buja, M.D., executive vice president for academic affairs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has been named executive director of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library by the Library's Board of Directors, effective Dec.1. Dr. Buja has served on the Library's Board for the last nine years, with one year as the Board Chair.

"The staff of the HAM-TMC Library and I are very excited to have Dr. Buja as our new director," said Deborah Halsted, M.L.S., M.A., the library's interim executive director. "He has offered the HAM-TMC Library valuable leadership for many years as a board member and as chair of the library's Board of Directors. I envision extensive growth in our services during his tenure."

"I am gratified by the confidence placed in me by the members of the Board of Directors who represent major institutions in the TMC," Buja said. "The HAM-TMC Library is a unique institution that has enhanced the stature and reputation of the TMC and its member institutions by providing invaluable intellectual resources to physicians, scientists, healthcare providers as well as the public."

"My vision as executive director is to provide leadership in accelerating the transformation of the HAM-TMC Library into a world-class and world-recognized biomedical information center at the forefront of the 21st century's electronic knowledge and communication revolution, while at the same time maintaining the traditional strengths and service commitment of the library," Buja said.
 

Due to the need for electrical maintenance at the National Library of Medicine, some NLM sites will be unavailable during the day through late evening on November 14th. Systems expected to be down: DOCLINE, Loansome Doc, LocatorPlus, HSRProj, HSRR, UMLS KSS, and Images from the History of Medicine. PubMed and all other Entrez databases will be up; ClinicalTrials.gov, DailyMed, MedlinePlus, TOXNET, the NLM Catalog and NLM Gateway will also remain available during performance of this maintenance.

Yesterday the new PubMed interface debuted successfully. The simpler-looking and quite differently designed interface appears at first to represent substantial change, but all the features are still present. For an overview of what has been changed, see the NLM Technical Bulletin articles here and here. Users who frequently search PubMed will notice that setting up a "My NCBI" login is becoming increasingly desirable.