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NHLBI Information Services
A Whole New World
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Modern electronic communication systems have provided a wealth of opportunities for rapid, low-cost information transfer. We at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have welcomed these innovations and actively sought ways to use them to communicate with our constituents in the scientific and lay communities. In this column, we highlight some of the modern, as well as the more traditional, approaches used by the Institute to disseminate its messages.
The NHLBI Gopher has been up and running for more than a year, and we are continually updating and expanding it. The Gopher is available 24 hours a day free of charge. Its address is gopher://gopher.nhlbi.nih.gov; it can also be accessed through the NHLBI World Wide Web Home Page at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
Both the casual "browser" and the serious information seeker may find much of interest on the Gopher, as a brief overview of its menu indicates. Our organizational structure and the addresses and telephone numbers of key staff are provided under NHLBI Organization and Staff; e-mail addresses can be found in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Directory Service available on the NIH Gopher. The NHLBI Personnel Announcements menu item identifies NHLBI position vacancies that may be of particular interest to the community and directs users to consult the NIH Gopher for additional job listings. Membership rosters for NHLBI advisory and review groups are listed under Advisory Committees and Boards.
The menu item News from the NHLBI covers a number of timely topics for
scientists and healthcare providers. For