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).

Dr. Brennan has her left hand on a large book and her right hand raised while looking at Dr. Collins to her right. Her sister holds the book.

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the 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. Since joining in 2016, she has positioned NLM as a global scientific research library with visible and accessible pathways to research and information that is universally actionable, meaningful, understandable, and useful. This ensures that scientists, policymakers, clinicians, patients, and the public can access biomedical information when and where they need it.

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Welcome to Musings!

About the Mezzanine

About Dr. Brennan