The Bibliographic Informatics Division at NIC HQ recently conducted a 5-day programme on Biomedical Information Retrieval for Medical Library Professionals at NIC HQ, New Delhi. The programme contents were designed specially for the professionals and covered aspects like Information Retrieval Techniques, Role and Use of Controlled Vocabulary, Biomedical Resources available over the Net, Digitization Technique s, Open, Access and Open Archiving.