The National Training Center and Clearinghouse's (NTCC) primary objectives are:

• Travel throughout the United States, promoting NLM's database and databank training for librarians, health professionals, and the public by providing focused instruction on MEDLARS' PubMed® and NLM Gateway/ClinicalTrials.gov, and Specialized Information Services Division's TOXNET®.

• Facilitate NCBI training by providing registration for the 3-day class Introduction to Molecular Biology and Information Resources, and UMLS®.

• Collaborate with all eight Regional Medical Libraries to provide a registration vehicle and promotion of classes such as LINKOUT, DOCLINE, WISER, and other classes for hand held devices and other topical or local events in conjunction with the MEDLARS classes.

• Locate appropriate and qualified online training facilities, and then arrange agreeable yearly timetables to provide this training. To schedule NLM classes, contact Maureen Czujak at 1-800-338-7657, press 2.

• Gather, organize, and display links to online educational biomedical materials in the Educational Clearinghouse Database.