Welcome to the New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens Health Education Library Online. This service is open to New York Hospital affiliates, staff, and patients and their families.

Location:

First floor off the lobby in the student center.

Contacting the Library- Phone: (718) 670-1118, 1119 | E-mail

Hours:

Monday- Thursday8 a.m. - midnight
Friday8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday10 a.m. - 5 p.m
Sunday10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Books, Periodicals, and Audio/Visual:

The Library subscribes to over 450 periodicals and holds over 10,000 textbooks, monographs, and audio/visual programs. Circulation is limited to hospital staff, attendings, and interlibrary loan.

Copiers:

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

Services:

Database searches:
Experienced librarians search a variety of biomedical and related databases including:
Medline
Cancerlit
CINHAL (Nursing)
PDQ (Physician Data Query) cancer database
Science Citation Index
Dialog@CARL (newspapers, business, etc.)
Internet

Classes:

Informal classes are offered to hospital personnel in Medline database searching

Interlibrary loan:

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, 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:

Medical Library Association
NY/NJ Regional Medical Library Association
Metropolitan Reference & Library Agency
BQSI Health Sciences Libraries