Health Education Library

56-45 Main St
Flushing, NY 11355
(Health Education LibraryFirst floor of Main Building, between the Red Elevators and the Emergency Department)

Phone: (718) 670-1118 or (718) 670-1119

The Library is open to New York Hospital affiliates, staff, and patients and their families through arrangement with affiliated staff.

Hours

  • Monday - Thursday 8 am - 11 pm
  • Friday 8 am - 4 pm
  • Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
  • Sunday 10 am - 3 pm
  • Closed alternating Sundays through May 2013 
  • Books, Periodicals, and Audio/VisualClosed federal holidays
  • Temporary hours changes will be posted on Library door.

Books, Periodicals, and Audio/Visual

The Library subscribes to over 350 periodicals and holds over 6,000 textbooks, monographs, and audio/visual programs. Circulation, Computer use and Interlibrary loans are limited to NYHQ hospital staff and Attendings. E-books are listed on Intranet.

NYHQ College Corner- special section with hospital-supported books/videos for NYHQ College classes. 

Copiers

Copiers are available. The charge for non-hospital personnel use is $0.15 per page.

Services for Hospital Staff

Database searches: experienced librarians search a variety of biomedical and related databases, including,


  • Medline
  • UpToDate
  • Dynamed (through June 2013)
  • Ovid
  • Access Emergency Medicine
  • MDConsult
  • Access Surgery
  • Statref
  • Internet
  • PubsHub
  • Access Medicine 

Database Additions

The Library is subscribing to AccessMedicine to

complement current subscriptions to

AccessEmergencyMedicine and AccessSurgery.

  

 Women Sitting at Desk

Classes

Informal classes are offered to hospital personnel in Medline database searching and PowerPoint. .

Interlibrary loan

For our hospital personnel, the Library can request books or periodicals not available at this library from other libraries through our consortial arrangements.

Newsletter

FYI is a quarterly newsletter published by the Health Education Library containing library news, searching hints, and information about new books, journals and videotapes that have been acquired by the Library. FYI also includes listings of books and articles newly published by the hospital staff.

Library Affiliations

  • MLA, Medical Library Association
  • NY/NJ Regional Medical Library Association
  • Metropolitan Reference & Library Agency
  • BQSI/MB/MB Health Sciences Libraries
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