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[CITE: 42USC286b-5]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                  Part D--National Library of Medicine
 
                     subpart 2--financial assistance
 
Sec. 286b-5. Grants for establishing, expanding, and improving 
        basic resources of medical libraries and related 
        instrumentalities
        
    (a) The Secretary shall make grants of money, materials, or both, to 
public or private nonprofit medical libraries and related scientific 
communication instrumentalities for the purpose of establishing, 
expanding, and improving their basic medical library or related 
resources. A grant under this subsection may be used for--
        (1) the acquisition of books, journals, photographs, motion 
    picture and other films, and other similar materials;
        (2) cataloging, binding, and other services and procedures for 
    processing library resource materials for use by those who are 
    served by the library or related instrumentality;
        (3) the acquisition of duplication devices, facsimile equipment, 
    film projectors, recording equipment, and other equipment to 
    facilitate the use of the resources of the library or related 
    instrumentality by those who are served by it; and
        (4) the introduction of new technologies in medical 
    librarianship.

    (b)(1) The amount of any grant under this section to any medical 
library or related instrumentality shall be determined by the Secretary 
on the basis of the scope of library or related services provided by 
such library or instrumentality in relation to the population and 
purposes served by it. In making a determination of the scope of 
services served by any medical library or related instrumentality, the 
Secretary shall take into account--
        (A) the number of graduate and undergraduate students making use 
    of the resources of such library or instrumentality;
        (B) the number of physicians and other practitioners in the 
    sciences related to health utilizing the resources of such library 
    or instrumentality;
        (C) the type of supportive staffs, if any, available to such 
    library or instrumentality;
        (D) the type, size, and qualifications of the faculty of any 
    school with which such library or instrumentality is affiliated;
        (E) the staff of any hospital or hospitals or of any clinic or 
    clinics with which such library or instrumentality is affiliated; 
    and
        (F) the geographic area served by such library or 
    instrumentality and the availability within such area of medical 
    library or related services provided by other libraries or related 
    instrumentalities.

    (2) Grants to such medical libraries or related instrumentalities 
under this section shall be in such amounts as the Secretary may by 
regulation prescribe with a view to assuring adequate continuing 
financial support for such libraries or instrumentalities from other 
sources during and after the period for which grants are provided, 
except that in no case shall any grant under this section to a medical 
library or related instrumentality for any fiscal year exceed 
$1,000,000.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 474, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 861; amended Pub. L. 100-607, title I, 
Sec. 146(b), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3058; Pub. L. 103-43, title XIV, 
Sec. 1401(b), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 170.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 103-43 substituted ``$1,000,000'' for 
``$750,000''.
    1988--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 100-607 substituted ``$750,000'' for 
``$500,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 286a-2, 286b-8 of this 
title.
