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Donald Lindberg, who served as the director of the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health for more than three decades, died on August 16 following a fall, according to an obituary in the Columbia Missourian. He was 85 years old.
“Don was incredibly well read, in medicine and beyond. A discussion about one of NLM’s many products and services would inevitably be informed by insight from the latest book he was reading, about history, sailing, or the latest medical breakthrough,” writes NIH director Francis Collins and NLM director Patricia Flatley Brennan in a statement. “His thirst for knowledge made him ideally suited to lead the largest biomedical library in the world.”
Lindberg trained as a pathologist and received his bacherlor’s degree from Amherst College in 1954 and his medical degree from Columbia University in 1958, according to the Columbia ...
