| The Galter Library’s mission is to support the research, education, and patient care activities of the Feinberg School of Medicine and McGaw Medical Center institutions. The library provides services and resources to meet the needs of the faculty, residents, students, and staff. The Galter Health Sciences Library is located at 303 East Chicago Avenue on the first floor of the Ward building. The facility operates Monday through Thursday 8 a.m.–11 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.–9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–9 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m.–11 p.m. Changes in this schedule are posted in advance. Valid NU identification is required as the library is not open to the public. Your WildCARD or library-issued bar code can be used to check out books and journals. In addition to collections and services, the library provides users with computers and network connections (wired and wireless) to access information wherever needed. Other library features are: - reading rooms located at each end of the library’s second floor, providing study tables, lounge seating, networked carrels, and wireless access points;
- group-study rooms—seven on the second floor and four in the Barnes Learning Resources Center (LRC). Each room seats 8–10 users and has network connections for computer hookup, one or two blackboards, a light box for viewing X-rays, and a projection screen. Two of the second floor rooms have 50" flat screen plasma televisions. These rooms can be reserved for group study;
- the LRC has 45 computers with educational software, such as Netter’s Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy and productivity software (such as Office and Photoshop). The LRC has a wireless access point, network ports,and a hands-on teaching space for 45 people that can be reserved for FSM programs.
- the Reference Room has 20 computers with educational and productivity software, a wireless access point, and a librarian available to answer questions from 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday-Saturday;
- the Reserves Collection (available at the Circulation Desk) includes required and recommended course reading and audiovisuals;
- Dollie’s Corner, the library’s leisure reading room, features a collection of current fiction, nonfiction, magazines, and newspapers. This room honors the library’s benefactor, Dollie Galter, who believed students need a place to relax and break away from their serious studies. Dollie's Corner has a wireless access point for connecting to the network.
Library users can use the library web site to: - Access databases, full-text journals and books, and web-based educational software
- View and customize their specialty or personal profiles
- Quickly search library resources by keyword
- Organize Web sites in a personal file cabinet
- Register for library classes
- Request and access Interlibrary Loans (ILL) and photocopies
The Galter Library is the source for all the databases, journals, books, and Web sites that students need during their time at Feinberg. Highlights of the library’s collection include: - Nearly 500 databases, including MEDLINE (via Ovid or PubMed), PsycINFO, EMBASE Drugs & Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology, and Web of Science
- Over 9000 electronic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature, Science, Lancet, and British Medical Journal
- Nearly 800 electronic books including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, Hurst's the Heart, and many other titles including those available in MD Consult, Stat!Ref and Books@Ovid
- Educational software titles such as Interactive Functional Anatomy, Clinical Human Embryology, the Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination Streaming Videos, and the Cine Prosector Series of dissection videos
- links to NUcat (the Northwestern online catalog); and numerous online reference tools such as directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, clinical practice tools, tutorials and writing aids.
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