---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 286b–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "286b–3"
heading: "Grants for training in medical library sciences"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/286b-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part D — National Library of Medicine"
  - "Subpart 2 — financial assistance"
---

# §286b–3. Grants for training in medical library sciences


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall make grants—

- (1) to individuals to enable them to accept traineeships and fellowships leading to postbaccalaureate academic degrees in the field of [medical library](/usc/42/286b–1.md?p=1) science, in related fields pertaining to [sciences related to health](/usc/42/286b–1.md?p=2), or in the field of the communication of information;
- (2) to individuals who are librarians or specialists in information on sciences relating to health, to enable them to undergo intensive training or retraining so as to attain greater competence in their occupations (including competence in the fields of automatic data processing and retrieval);
- (3) to assist appropriate public and private [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) institutions in developing, expanding, and improving training [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in library science and the field of communications of information pertaining to sciences relating to health; and
- (4) to assist in the establishment of internship [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in established [medical libraries](/usc/42/286b–1.md?p=1) meeting standards which the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall prescribe.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 472, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 860.)