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National Medical Library is a medical library established on 1 April 1966 by the Government of India. It is located in Ansari Nagar, New Delhi.It aims to provide library and information services to the health science professionals in India. It functions under the administrative control of the Directorate General of Health Services.It has 3.6 lakh volumes of books, reports, bound volume of journals and other literature. It subscribes around 2000 periodicals annually. The library has good collection of 19th century literature. Books are classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. It became the Indian focal point of HELLIS Network under World Health Organization in 1982.It has been organizing training programmes for medical/health science librarians since 1980.