| Logan Ludwig, Ph.D., Associate Dean |
(708) 216-5301 |
lludwig@lumc.edu |
(708) 216-6772 |
| Gina Zarilla, Administrative Secretary |
(708) 216-5301 |
rzarill@lumc.edu |
(708) 216-6772 |
The mission of the Health Sciences Library/LRC
is to provide access to the informational resources necessary
to fulfill the teaching, research, and patient care activities
of Loyola University Health System and Loyola University of
Chicago. To achieve its mission, the Health Sciences Library/LRC
fosters the advancement of professional health care practice,
education, research and consumer health by:
GOAL 1: Assuring access and linkage to
the world’s information in biomedicine and health related
areas.
GOAL 2: Exploring, evaluating, and promoting effective utilization
of quality information and knowledge.
GOAL 3: Providing education in the principles and techniques
of information management toward excellence in patient care
and lifelong learning.
GOAL 4: Preserving and enhancing access to retrospective and
historical material through cooperative arrangements and retention
of primary resources.
GOAL 5: Creating a stimulating and synergistic setting for intellectual
growth.
The Health Sciences Library plays a vital role
in the delivery of health care information bysupporting medical
research and health professional education. The Library and its
staff:
- promote knowledge-based information services,
- train health care providers to be effective
information users,
- provide access to health care information
in all settings,
- bring information services to all parts of
the nation, and
- are committed to directing its efforts in
support of health care reform.
The Loyola University Health Sciences Library
serves faculty, students, and staff of the Stritch School of
Medicine, the Marcella Niehoff Graduate School of Nursing, the
Foster G. McGaw Hospital, five graduate school programs, six
institutes, Loyola University Health System, Loyola University
Physician Foundation and health care professionals in the greater
metropolitan Chicago area and beyond. It is a designated Resource
Library for Region #3 of the National Network of Libraries of
Medicine (NN/LM) and through an affiliation agreement serves
as the resource library for the American Medical Association
(AMA).
The Library, located on the first floor of
Building 101, occupies approximately 34,000 square feet. Ample
seating is available for nearly 275 users. Also available are
an electronic training room, photocopying facilities, videoconferencing,
computing resources and a Learning Resources Center (LRC). The
Library collections include:
- over 60,000 books,
- nearly 5,000 journal titles of which 2,200
are active subscriptions,
- over 1,200 full-text electronic journals,
- nearly 100 electronic book titles, including
Harrison’s Online, Scientific American, Books@OVID,
Harrison's Online (Principles of Internal Medicine), Hurst's
The Heart, ACP Medicine, and LWW Oncology.
The Health Sciences Library participates in
Loyola University of Chicago Libraries online web-based public
catalog that provides information on the libraries holdings of
over 1.6 million volumes. The Library also provides access to
hundreds of research databases via the World Wide Web and includes
such medical, science and technology databases as:
: OVID is a
database vendor that provides access to MEDLINE, CINAHL,
PsycInfo, Biosis, and many more databases. OVID also provides
access to over 100 full-text journals and 11 full-text textbooks.
: MD Consult is
an online resource designed to help the user quickly answer
clinical questions and to stay up-to-date with the latest
in medicine. MD Consult contains more than 35 leading medical
textbooks, over 45 key clinical journals, MEDLINE, over
600 practice guidelines, drug information, patient education
handouts, summaries of key publications, review of medicine
in the press, and continuing medical education modules.
: This search service
from the National Library of Medicine provides access to
over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other
related databases, with links to participating online journals.
: UpToDate provides
access to topic reviews for Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Family
Practice, and Pediatrics. UpToDate performs a continuous
review of over 270 journals and other resources.
:
Evidence based medicine databases includes the following
databases: Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, the Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, and Best Evidence.
ClinicalTrials.gov: The U.S. National Institutes of Health,
through its National Library of Medicine, has developed
ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members,
and members of the public current information about clinical
research studies.
to
many Internet sites for the Health Sciences evaluated by the
professional librarians and listed under general subject headings:
Alternative Medicine, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Chicago &
Illinois, Consumer Health, Evidence Based Medicine, Ethics,
Government & Law, Hospitals, Life Sciences, News, Nursing,
Nutrition, Patents, Psychiatry/Psychology, Residencies, Students
(medical, nursing), Telemedicine.
Access to thousands of electronic journals,
including Academic Press, EBSCOHost, Health Science Plus, AHA
journals, and OCLC First Search Online Resources are available
to library users via the library’s home page.
The Library’s Research and Access Services
Department offers several Information Management Education classes
including Managing your personal files (Reference Manager and
EndNotes), Searching for Health Care Issues, Psychiatry Information
Resources, Evidence Based Medicine, Searching the Nursing Literature,
Basic and Advanced MEDLINE, and Basic Library Services for Support
Staff. IME consultations and one-on-one instruction to Loyola
University and LUHS faculty, staff, and students ("housecalls")
are also provided -
See Training & Education
for more information.
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