As part of Indian MEDLARS Center’s (IMC) activities, two User Awareness Programmes were conducted during the month of February 2007, in Andhra Pradesh. First Programme was conducted at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad that was attended by over 50 doctors from the Institute. The programme highlighted NIC’s role in the area of biomedical information retrieval and also covered the demonstration of IMC’s databases viz: IndMED, medIND, OpenMED and Union Catalogue The second awareness program was hoisted at the Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada (East Godavari District), which was attended by over 90 doctors and medical students The Programmes were instrumental in generating awareness amongst the participants regarding the services being provided by NIC in this area.