Yale School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510
The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library is a comprehensive resource for research, patient care, and educational materials containing an extensive retrospective collection. The Library’s web site is the gateway to the virtual library of electronic books and journals, databases, clinical reference tools, and evidence-based practice resources. The Library offers specialized programs to support faculty and students including a Personal Librarian Program and a Library Liaison Program.
Medical Historical Library
Founded in 1941, the Historical Library is one of the great medical historical libraries of the world. A large and unique collection of rare medical books, historical medical journals, pamphlets, prints, photographs, and current works on the history of medicine form the core of the collection. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. Notable collections include the Clements C. Fry Print Collection, the Peter Parker Collection of manuscripts and paintings by the artist Lam-Qua of patients, and the Edward Clark Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures.
Nursing Library
The Reference Room at the School of Nursing houses an essential print reference collection, computer access to Library resources, and a large study space. Nursing library services are provided to nursing faculty, students and staff through the Medical Library. The print collection is housed in the Medical Library, and the electronic collection is available through both the Nursing Library web site as well as the Medical Library web site.
The Epidemiology and Public Health Library
Yale School of Public Health is one of the few accredited schools of public health with its own separate library. The Library has extensive collections in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, environmental health, international health, chronic disease epidemiology, emerging infectious diseases, and microbiology. Special collections include publications from the World Health Organization, the National Center for Health Statistics, and Vital Statistics for Connecticut and United States Census materials.
Science Libraries
Eight libraries form the science library network including the Kline Science Library collecting in the areas of general science, biology, chemistry, physics, botany, zoology, and molecular biophysics and biochemistry. The other seven libraries include the Chemistry Library, Engineering and Applied Science, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Geology, Mathematics, Ornithology and the Herbarium.
The Yale University Library System
The Yale University Library System is home to more than 12 million volumes and includes 22 libraries on the Yale campus. Sterling Memorial Library is the third largest library in the country. In addition to its many volumes, it carries over 300 foreign newspapers and microtext materials and approximately 130 domestic newspapers.
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