About the Health Sciences Library

The Health Sciences Library

We are located on the first floor of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, and primarily serve:

the Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy (Memorial University)
the General Hospital, the Women's Health Centre, and the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre (Health Care Corporation of St. John's)
the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Centre (Newfoundland Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation)

The Health Sciences Library also acts as a resource centre for all health practitioners in the Province. Electronic Resources are provided through the Newfoundland and Labrador Health Knowledge Information Network

Study Space

Library study space consists of individual carrels, tables, single study rooms, and group study rooms. Use of the group study rooms, and of non-assigned single study rooms, is restricted to Memorial's Health Sciences students. For more information, see the Study Room Policy.

Library Links Newsletter

The library's newsletter Library Links, is published twice a year, the Fall 2009 edition is now available.

Previous editions are available from the Library Links Archive

Collection

The Health Sciences Library collection includes material on medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and allied health. In the health and allied disciplines, there are approximately 40,000 books (paper format); 20,000 electronic texts; 8,000 electronic journals; 350 current journals (paper format); and 1800 audio-visual material. In addition, the library provides access to approximately 30,000 non-health electronic journals and 220,000 electronic texts that are accessible through general Memorial University agreements.

The K.B. Roberts Historical Collection includes contemporary analyses of the history of the health sciences, reprints of classics in the health sciences, and "working" materials which would have been of practical value to the active health sciences practitioner prior to 1970.

The Founders Archive, an archival repository for the medical school, is located within the Library.

Computer Facilities

All computers are subject to University regulations on appropriate use. There are a number of workstations located near the Information Desk which provide access to the primary health databases, electronic journals and the library catalogue.

The MEDITECH system of the Health Care Corporation is NOT available from within the Library.

A scanner/multi-media station is also available. Users can view CD-ROM material held by the library (earphones are available at the Circulation Desk). Copies of e-journal articles, images and other files can be obtained using the scanner. Options include black and white printing, colour printing and colour transparencies from this workstation.

The Computer Lab is available to members of the Faculty of Medicine and School of Nursing Students. Users require an HSIMS lab account. The lab provides access to the Web, e-mail, word processing and other basic computing applications. Printing is available at a charge of $0.05 per page (single sided), and requires a "Campus Card" for transferring funds into printing accounts.

Policies

After Hours Access
Literature Search Services
Food and Drink
Noise
Off Site Storage
Recall
Standards of Behaviour
Study Rooms
System Wide Policies


	Health Sciences Library Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL Canada A1B 3V6 Phone: Contact Us Fax: 709-777-6866

March 18, 2010
Sue Fahey