Administration - Loyola University Health Sciences Library

Administration

Staff	Phone	E-Mail	Fax
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 40,000 books
nearly 5,000 journal titles of which 2,200 are active subscriptions
over 1,200 full-text electronic journals
nearly 200 electronic book titles, including Harrison's Online, Clinical Evidence, Books@OVID, Hurst's The Heart, ACP Medicine, and Henry Stewart Talks.

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 Databases: OVID is a database vendor that provides access to MEDLINE, PsycInfo, Biosis, and many more databases. OVID also provides access to over 100 full-text journals and 12 full-text textbooks.
MD Consult: 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 50 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.
PubMed: 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.
OVID's Evidence Based Medicine Collection: Evidence based medicine databases includes the following databases: Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, and Best Evidence.

WWW Links 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.