Announcements & News

We redesigned the website to improve your access to the Library’s information resources and services. The April 3 launch is only the first stage of our ongoing website work. In the coming year, we will continue to develop and update the site’s content and features based on input from you.

Are you intrigued by Virtual Reality (VR)? Have you wondered if VR is a technology that could help you with your research? Come to the NIH Library to learn more about the possibilities VR offers for research, collaboration, and education.

It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the NIH Library and share a few exciting developments.

The NIH Big Read will feature a series of book discussions and an author presentation about  “The Gene: An Intimate History” (2016) by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” (2010). The NIH Big Read will conclude with an event featuring the author, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, on April 17, in Masur Auditorium (Building 10), 2:00–3:00 p.m.

The first VR demo session will be held March 7 and features an introduction to the Library’s new HTC Vive system, followed by a demo of Chimera, a program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data.

NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program is organizing a Genomatix training class for August 6–7. The free training will be held in the NIH Library Training Room, Building 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. over two days.

Plagiarism—whether intentional or not—can be damaging to a researcher’s career. To help NIH authors check that all of a manuscript’s sources are cited, the NIH Library offers its Plagiarism Checking Service.

The NIH Library Bioinformatics Support Program is hosting a Bioinformatics Tournament on Thursday, July 30, 2015, 12 – 1 p.m., in the library training room.

NIH and HHS staff are invited to attend the first Data Visualization Community of Practice (COP) meeting on July 16, organized by the NIH Library Technology Sandbox team.