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PUBLIC LAW 89-291-OCT. 22, 1965

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Public Law 89-291 AN ACT

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a program of grants to assist in meeting the need for adequate medical library services and facilities.

October 22, 1965

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Be it enacted, by the Senate any House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, A^slstanc.^'Acr^ SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Medical Library Assist- of iges. ance Act of 1965". 691. SEC. 2. Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by 58 Stat. 241-280a. 42 USC inserting at the end thereof the following new part: " P A R T I—^ASSISTANCE TO MEDICAL LIBRARIES U

DECLARATION or POLICY AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

"SEC. 390. (a) The Congress hereby finds and declares that (1) the unprecedented expansion of knowledge in the health sciences within the past two decades has brought about a massive growth in the quantity, and major changes in the nature of, biomedical information, materials, and publications; (2) there has not been a corresponding growth in the facilities and techniques necessary adequately to coordinate and disseminate among health scientists and practitioners the ever-increasing volume of knowledge and information which has been developed in the health science field; (3) much of the value of the everincreasing volume of knowledge and information which has been, and continues to be, developed in the health science field will be lost unless proper measures are taken in the immediate future to develop facilities and techniques necessary to collect, preserve, store, process, retrieve, and facilitate the dissemination and utilization of, such knowledge and information. " (b) I t is therefore the policy of this part to— "(1) assist in the construction of new, and the renovation, expansion, or rehabilitation of existing medical library facilities; "(2) assist in the training of medical librarians and other information specialists in the health sciences; "(3) assist, through the awarding of special fellowships to physicians and other practitioners in the sciences related to health and scientists, in the compilation of existing, and the creation of additional, written matter which will facilitate the distribution and utilization of knowledge and information relating to scientific, social, and cultural advancements in sciences related to health; "(4) assist in the conduct of research and investigations in the field of medical library science and related activities, and in the development of new techniques, systems, and equipment for processing, storing, retrieving, and distributing information in the sciences related to health; "(5) assist in improving and expanding the basic resources of medical libraries and related facilities; "(6) assist in the development of a national system of regional medical libraries each of which would have facilities of sufficient depth and scope to supplement the services of other medical libraries within the region served by i t; and "(7) provide financial support to biomedical scientific publications. "DEFINITIONS

"SEC. 391. As used in this part— "(1) the term 'sciences related to health' includes medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, and public health, and fundamental and applied sciences when related thereto;

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