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National Library of Medicine to Unveil New Online Catalog, LOCATORplus, on the Web on Monday, April 12 On Monday, April 12, the National Library of Medicine will unveil its new web catalog, called LOCATORplus, which will allow anyone with Internet access to find out what books, journals, audiovisuals, manuscripts, and other items are contained in the world=s largest medical library. There are many exciting new features will be available via LOCATORplus. Customers using the catalog from the Web can search by author, MeSH subject, title, conference name, keyword and many other specific fields, then e-mail the results to themselves. Current receipts of both serial and monograph material will be displayed along with information about material which is on order or available electronically. Hotlinks to online journals will be available from many records. Direct access to a variety of other resources will be available from LOCATORplus including MEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, Images of the History of Medicine, TOXNET, HSTAT, and other U.S. medical library catalogs. LOCATORplus is part of NLM=s new integrated library system (ILS) which was installed for in-house use in November 1998. The ILS is being used for acquisitions, serials control, cataloging, collection management, circulation and preservation. LOCATORplus is the ILS=s online public access catalog and serves as the retrieval engine for the Library=s cataloging records, replacing existing online access methods, such as Locator, CATLINE, AVLINE and SERLINE. LOCATORplus brings together a number of previously disparate databases, along with information formerly available only to staff, using state-of-art information retrieval technology. Beginning April 12th, NLM=s LOCATORplus can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/ The site is updated daily. For a preview of the system a Quick Start Tutorial can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/tutorials/quickstart/sld001.htm