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“Images of America (U.S. National Library of Medicine)”

If you enjoy history and libraries—and the history of libraries—then you are going to enjoy this thematic and visual history of the US National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest biomedical library, which is located in Bethesda, Maryland, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, one of the world’s foremost medical research centers.

—Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle, U.S. National Library of Medicine (Images of America)

Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine

Images of America: US National Library of Medicine is a welcome companion to Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, produced by the Library in 2011. We hope readers of all ages and backgrounds will appreciate this new broad history of the Library as much as we have appreciated crafting it and making it publicly available in cooperation with so many colleagues and friends here at the NLM and beyond. And we hope this book will inspire readers to learn more about the development of the Library and visit for a tour or conduct research in our world-renowned collections which span ten centuries and represent nearly every part of the globe.