ten appointed members shall be selected from among leaders in the various fields of the fundamental sciences, medicine, dentistry, public health, hospital administration, pharmacology, or scientific or medical library work, or in public affairs. At least six of the appointed members shall be selected from among leaders in the fields of medical, dental, or public health research or education. The Board shall annually elect one of the appointed members to serve as Chairman until the next election. The Secretary shall designate a member of the Library staff to act as executive secretary of the Board.

(b) It shall be the duty of the Board to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary on important matters of policy in regard to the Library, including such matters as the acquisition of materials for the Library, the scope, content and organization of the Library's services, and the rules under which its materials, publications, facilities, and services shall be made available to various kinds of users, and the Secretary shall include in his annual report to the Congress a statement covering the recommendations made by the Board and the disposition thereof. The Secretary is authorized to use the services of any member or members of the Board in connection with matters related to the work of the Library, for such periods, in addition to conference periods, as he may determine.

(c) Each appointed member of the Board shall hold office for a term of four years, except that (A) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and (B) the terms of the members first taking office after the date of enactment of this part shall expire as follows: three at the end of four years after such date, three at the end of three years after such date, two at the end of two years after such date, and two at the end of one year after such date, as designated by the President at the time of appointment. None of the appointed members shall be eligible for reappointment within one year after the end of his preceding term.

GIFTS TO LIBRARY

SEC. 384. The provisions of section 501 shall be ap- 42 U.S.C. 278 plicable to the acceptance and administration of gifts made for the benefit of the Library or for carrying out any of its functions, and the Board shall make recommendations to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare relating to establishment within the Library of suitable memorials to the donors.

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DEFINITIONS

SEC. 385. For purposes of this part the terms "medicine" and "medical" shall, except when used in section 383, be understood to include preventive and therapeutic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, hospitalization, nursing, public health, and the fundamental sciences related thereto, and other related fields of study, research, or activity.

LIBRARY FACILITIES

SEC. 386. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated sums sufficient for the erection and equipment of suitable and adequate buildings and facilities for use of the Library in carrying out the provisions of this part. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise, a suitable site or sites, selected by the Secretary in accordance with the direction of the Board, for such buildings and facilities and to erect thereon, furnish, and equip such buildings and facilities. The sums herein authorized to be appropriated shall include the cost of preparation of drawings and specifications, supervision of construction, and other administrative expenses incident to the work. The Administrator of General Services shall prepare the plans and specifications, make all necessary contracts, and supervise construction.

TRANSFER OF ARMED FORCES MEDICAL LIBRARY

SEC. 387. All civilian personnel, equipment, library collections, other personal property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds (available or to be made available), which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to the functions of the Armed Forces Medical Library, are hereby transferred to the Service for use in the administration and operation of this part. Such transfer of property, funds, and personnel, and the other provisions of this part, shall become effective on the first day, occurring not less than thirty days after the date of enactment of this part, which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget determines to be practicable.

REGIONAL BRANCHES OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
MEDICINE

SEC. 388. (a) Whenever the Secretary, with the advice of the Board, determines that-

(1) in any geographic area of the United States, there is no regional medical library adequate to serve such area;

(2) under the criteria prescribed in section 397, there is a need for a regional medical library to serve such area; and

(3) because there is located in such area no medical library which, under the provisions of section 397 can feasibly be developed into a regional medical library adequate to serve such area,

he is authorized to establish, as a branch of the National Library of Medicine, a regional medical library to serve the needs of such area.

(b) For the purpose of establishing branches of the National Library of Medicine under this section, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and ending with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, such sums, not to exceed $2,000,000 for any fiscal year, as may be necessary. Sums appropriated pursuant to this section for any fiscal year shall remain available until expended.

PART J-ASSISTANCE TO MEDICAL LIBRARIES

DECLARATION OF POLICY AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

SEC. 390. (a) The Congress hereby finds and declares 42 U.S.C. 280b that (1) the unprecedented expansion of knowledge in the health sciences within the past two decades has brought about a massive growth in the quantity, and major changes in the nature of, biomedical information, materials, and publications; (2) there has not been a corresponding growth in the facilities and techniques necessary adequately to coordinate and disseminate among health scientists and practitioners the everincreasing volume of knowledge and information which has been developed in the health science field; (3) much of the value of the ever-increasing volume of knowledge and information which has been, and continues to be, developed in the health science field will be lost unless proper measures are taken in the immediate future to develop facilities and techniques necessary to collect, preserve, store, process, retrieve, and facilitate the dissemination and utilization, of such knowledge and information.

(b) It is therefore the policy of this part to

(1) assist in the construction of new, and the renovation, expansion, or rehabilitation of existing medical library facilities;

(2) assist in the training of medical librarians and other information specialists in the health sciences; (3) assist, through grants to physicians and other practitioners in the sciences related to health, to scientists, and to public or nonprofit private institutions on behalf of such physicians, other practitioners, and

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scientists, in the compilation of existing, and the creation of additional, written matter which will facilitate the distribution and utilization of knowledge and information relating to scientific, social, and cultural advancements in sciences related to health;

(4) assist in the conduct of research, investigations, and demonstrations in the field of medical library science and related activities, and in the development of new techniques, systems, and equipment for processing, storing, retrieving, and distributing information in the sciences related to health; (5) assist in establishing, expanding, and improving the basic resources of medical libraries and related facilities:

(6) assist in the development of a national system of regional medical libraries each of which would have facilities of sufficient depth and scope to supplement the services of other medical libraries within the region served by it; and

(7) provide financial support to biomedical scientific publications.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 391. As used in this part

(1) the term "sciences related to health" includes medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, and public health, and fundamental and applied sciences when related thereto.

(2) the terms "National Medical Libraries Assistance Advisory Board" and "Board" mean the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine established under section 383 (a) of this Act;

(3) the terms "construction" and "cost of construction", when used with reference to any medical library facility, include (A) the construction of new buildings, and the expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings, including architects' fees, but not including the cost of acquisition of land or off-site improvements, and (B) equipping new buildings and existing buildings (whether or not expanded, remodeled, or altered) for use as a library (including provision of automatic data processing equipment), but not with books, pamphlets, or related material;

(4) the term "medical library" means a library related to the sciences related to health.

NATIONAL MEDICAL LIBRARIES ASSISTANCE BOARD

SEC. 392. (a) The Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine established pursuant to section 383 (a) shall, in addition to its functions prescribed under

section 383, constitute and serve as the National Medical Libraries Assistance Advisory Board (hereinafter in this part referred to as the "Board").

(b) The Board shall—

(1) advise and assist the Secretary in the preparation of general regulations and with respect to policy matters arising in the administration of this part, and

(2) consider all applications for construction grants under this part and make to the Secretary such recommendations as it deems advisable with respect to (A) the approval of such applications, and (B) the amount which should be granted to each applicant whose application, in its opinion, should be approved.

(c) The Secretary is authorized to use the services of any member or members of the Board, in connection with matters related to the administration of this part for such periods, in addition to conference periods, as he may determine.

(d) Appointed members of the Board who are not otherwise in the employ of the United States, while attending conferences of the Board or otherwise serving at the request of the Secretary in connection with the administration of this part, shall be entitled to receive compensation, per diem in lieu of subsistence, and travel expenses in the same manner and under the same conditions as that prescribed under section 383 (d) when attending conferences, traveling, or serving at the request of the Secretary in connection with the administration. of part I.

ASSISTANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES

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SEC. 393. (a) In carrying out the purposes of section 42 U.S.c. 390 (b) (1), the Secretary may, upon application of any public or private nonprofit agency or institution, make grants to such agency or institution toward the cost of construction of any medical library facility to be constructed by such agency or institution.

(b) A grant under this section may be made only if the application there for is recommended for approval by the Board and is approved by the Secretary upon his determination that

(1) the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that (A) for not less than twenty years after completion of construction, the facility will be used as a medical library facility, (B) sufficient funds will be available to meet the nonFederal share of the cost of constructing the facility, and (C) sufficient funds will be available, when construction is completed, for effective use of the facility for the purpose for which it is being constructed;