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AHEC Libraries
AHEC - Fort Smith Library The Fort Smith AHEC Library/Learning Resource Center is located in Sparks Regional Medical Center, 1311 South I Street, Fort Smith, AR 72901. This serves as the library for the local Sebastian County Medical Society and also serves the needs of Sparks staff and employees. As a designated AHEC library, the librarian serves information needs for the following counties in western Arkansas: Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Polk, Pope, Scott, Sebastian, Van Buren, Yell. Available services include Internet and World Wide Web access, reference assistance by phone, fax, e-mail or in person, and computer literature searches on all the National Library of Medicine's databases (many citations have abstracts). Instruction is available for health professionals and health sciences students who wish to do their own searching. Interlibrary loan services are available through local, state, and national networks. The librarian will provide monthly lists on current topics and will also provide instruction for Grateful Med. Some of the above services entail a fee; contact the Librarian for details. Telephone: (501) 441-5337; Fax : (501) 441-5339; E-mail: grace@sparks.org AHEC - Northeast Library The AHEC - Northeast library is located in a 2,200 square foot spacious, newly renovated area on the first floor of St. Bernards Regional Medical Center Annex Building at 223 East Jackson, Jonesboro. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. After hours the facilities of the library will be made available to physicians, AHEC medical staff, and the residents. The library serves the AHEC - Northeast Family Practice Residents and faculty, medical staff, nursing, and pharmacology students for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The library also serves all area physicians and health professionals within a 16 county area in northeast Arkansas. The services offered by the library support patient care, teaching, continuing education, and medical research. The medical library has a core collection of textbooks and a small collection of audiovisual materials. The journal holdings number 126 titles. AHEC - Northeast library is a member of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, a regional five-state network of hospital and academic libraries. This network provides interlibrary loan services for borrowing books, obtaining photocopies of journal articles, and audiovisual software. It is also a member of OCLO "Amigos", a nationwide network that provides for a full range of interlibrary loan services. Telephone: (870) 972-1290; Fax: (870) 931-0839; E-mail: kcrosser@ahecne.uams.edu AHEC - Northwest Library The Area Health Education Center Northwest Library, established in 1975, is located at Washington Regional Medical Center, 1125 N. College Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72703. The library is located on the first floor of the hospital, across the hallway from the ICU/Surgical waiting areas. The library offers almost 200 journal titles and 1500 textbooks in medicine, nursing, and allied health. The library has full biomedical bibliographic database searching capability with a CDROM Pentium-based personal computer workstation that is accessible to the library staff and patrons alike. This system includes full MEDLINE, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature), and HEALTHSTAR ( a compilation of several databases which feature information specific to hospitals and health care reform issues). In addition, Washington Regional Medical Center has placed the HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER database in the library for patron, library staff, and public use. HRC is a 3 year database of patient, consumer health and professional information with some full text capability. In addition, the Library participates in two computer based interlibrary loan systems. Tours of the facility, providing interlibrary loan services, performing literature searches, teaching computer based searching skills, and locating needed books, journals, and audiovisual materials are among the many services the library staff performs daily. The library directly supports all educational programs, medical research, and patient care at the AHEC - Northwest site and all health professionals in eleven counties in Northwest Arkansas (Baxter, Marion, Benton, Newton, Boone, Searcy, Carroll, Stone, Izard, Washington, and Madison). The public is welcome to use any library materials in house, but are not allowed to borrow any items. A photocopier is available to the public at a nominal per-page charge. The center is open Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m ; Friday 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Staff: Telephone: (501) 442-1175, Toll free: (888) 740-2432; Fax : (501) 521-0624; E-mail: cwilson@ahecnwlibrary.uams.edu AHEC - Pine Bluff Library The Area Health Education Center - Pine Bluff Melville Library was established in September, 1973. Melville Library serves the AHEC - Pine Bluff Family Practice Residency Program Residents and medical students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the medical staff of Jefferson Regional Medical Center, and all other local health science students and professionals within a 14 county area in southeast Arkansas. The library has a collection of print and non-print items in the fields of medicine, nursing, and allied health sciences. Melville Library is located on the grounds of Jefferson Regional Medical Center in the Area Health Education Center building, 4010 Mulberry Street, Pine Bluff. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Services provided by the library staff consist of performing literature searches, locating materials (books, journals, and/or audiovisual materials), initiating and filling interlibrary loans, computer assisted research (Ovid, Medline and the Internet), bibliography checks, and tours of the facility. Books, video programs, and audiotapes are checked out for one week from the time issued. Journals, whether bound or unbound, remain in the library. If a particular article is needed, a copy machine is available for individual use. Literature search requests may be made via telephone (voice-mail after hours), e-mail, fax or in person. A collection of antique medical books is on display along with several pieces of antique medical equipment. Patient education pamphlets/borchures are available for many diseases and illnesses. Staff: Telephone: (870) 541-7629; Fax: (870) 541-7628; E-mail: jdobbins@ahecpb.uams.edu AHEC - South Arkansas Library AHEC South Arkansas Library was established in 1974 and is the only medical library serving the rural counties of southern Arkansas (Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Dallas, Ouachita and Union). Learning resources are provided to the staff of six hospitals, as well as to students attending several medical and allied health training programs. The Resource Center is located on the 1st floor of the MCSA Professional Building located at 460 West Oak Street, one block west of El Dorado City Hall. The Resource Center offers current medical journals, medical reference and textbooks in order to serve the health professionals in our area. Computer searching is offered both Online and with a CD-Rom system. All possible services are offered to UAMS students and Family Practice Residents. Students from other colleges are welcome, and the public is especially encouraged to visit and become familiar with the available material for keeping up-to-date in medicine and health. The center is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Borrowing practices and charges are available upon request, and are subject to change. Telephone: (870) 881-4404, (870) 881-4403; Fax : (870) 863-9341; E-mail: vdeyampert@ahecsa.uams.edu AHEC - Southwest Library AHEC - SOUTHWEST MEDICAL LIBRARY The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Area Health Education Center - Southwest Library was established in 1975. Our library is located in a spacious 2000 square feet of the first floor, west wing in this three-sotry stucco building. The library serves the AHEC - Southwest Family Practice Residency Program, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences medical and nursing students, UAMS/AHEC - Southwest Respiratory Therapy, Radiology and Medical Technology programs. We provide services for ten area hospitals, fifteen healthcare institutions and more than two hundred physicians and healthcare professionals. We serve a nine county area in southwest Arkansas and a four county area in northeast Texas. Services provided by the library staff include literature searches, computer assisted research (Medline, CINAHL, Internet), assistance in locating and checking out books, journals, audiovisuals, audiovisual equipment, bibliography verification, and tours of the library and computer lab. Our computer lab is comprised of thirteen computers and workstations. Numerous programs are accessible, including the Internet. The AHEC - Southwest Medical Library is open to the public. We are open from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. We are open late one night a week when UAMS outreach classes are in session. Our staff includes: Destiny Carter, Librarian Telephone: (870) 779-6023; Fax: (870) 779-6050; E-Mail: CarterDestinyN@uams.edu Cathy Privett
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