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National Library of Medicine,
History of Medicine Division
Location: 8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone: (800) 272-4787 Fax: (301) 402-0872
Contact: Margaret Kaiser, Elizabeth Tunis, Stephen Greenberg
Email: hmdref@nlm.nih.gov
Internet address:   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/hmd.html
Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:30 am - 5 pm
Wheelchair Access: yes

Information about holdings
Manuscripts: yes
Organizational records: yes
Printed material: yes
Film/Video/Sound: yes
Photographs: yes
Microfilm: yes
Other holdings/notes: International collection of AIDS posters.

Time periods/geographical regions documented:
Pre-1914 printed works; modern manuscripts.

Significant People/organizations/subjects documented:
Information and posters on AIDS; the Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (NLM's 19th Century and earlier printed catalog) has various sub-headings under the subject "sexual instinct."
Use requirements
Open to the public.
Services
Research space, copying, audiovisual facilities, exhibitions, reference assistance on site, telephone reference, and Internet reference (email/web).
Indices, finding aids, collection descriptions
Various printed catalogs; entries in CATLINE, SERLINE, and AVLINE databases; NLM's MEDLARS system; via Internet through LOCATOR (telnet to locator.nlm.nih.gov and enter locator at the login prompt).

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