No Fooling: NLM Officially Became Part of NIH on April 1, 1968 | NLM in Focus

No Fooling: NLM Officially Became Part of NIH on April 1, 1968 | NLM in Focus

No Fooling: NLM Officially Became Part of NIH on April 1, 1968

04/02/2018 09:00 AM EDT

With this article, we begin an occasional series on key events in NLM’s history that took place in 1968. What’s in a name? Since its founding as the Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army in 1836, today’s National Library of Medicine has had several different names and affiliations. In 1922,…