Welcome to Musings!

Musings from the Mezzanine provides an inside look at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest biomedical library.

We highlight the people, products, and events at NLM. Read about research conducted by NLM scientists and grantees, the library’s fascinating collections, and unique ways NLM and its partner libraries bring information to the public.

Musings from the Mezzanine is a product of the NLM Office of Communications and Public Liaison, under the NLM Office of the Director. NLM is part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

About the Mezzanine

Perched over the southeast corner of the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Library of Medicine building is an impressive limestone structure topped with a large gull wing dome (a four-quadrant hyperbolic paraboloid shell made of reinforced concrete, to be precise).

Stephen Sherry, PhD, is the Acting Director of the NIH National Library of Medicine, a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library. Prior to this position, Dr. Sherry served as Director of NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information and NLM Associate Director for Scientific Data Resources. Under his leadership, NLM developed advanced computational solutions for life and health science information needs and facilitated open science and scholarship through a growing array of data, literature, and other information offerings and services made available by NLM.

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Welcome to Musings!

About the Mezzanine

About Dr. Sherry