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The MUSC Library serves as a database and knowledge center, academic computing support unit, electronic education center, and leader in information planning. Online resources include the full catalog as well as major biomedical databases (e.g., MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SciFinder, and PubMED). Links include online catalogs of other libraries, drug information (MicroMedex, Mosby’s Drug Consult), consumer health (Hands on Health, MEDLINEPLUS, Health Reference Center), clinical decision support systems (eMedicine, UpToDate, InfoPOEMS), Clinical Practice Guidelines and alerts, reviews of clinical trials, evidence-based practice (Cochrane database, INFOPOEMS), government resources (Toxnet, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations), electronic books (MD Consult, Harrison's Online, Access Medicine) and e-journal packages with literature search capabilities (ScienceDirect, ejournals@MUSC, Journals@Ovid, American Chemical Society), statewide shared academic databases (Collegiate DISCUS, DISCUS), and other resources that provide a wealth of worldwide information. Service-oriented faculty and staff assist in the use of a variety of informational systems. An active program of individual, class, and group instruction supports teaching, clinical care, research and community outreach. The Library includes the Educational Technology Lab for web-based instruction and curriculum evaluation, and the Informatics Lab with more than 200 microcomputers and peripheral equipment. In addition to providing access to collections and information remote from its physical facility, the Library maintains a comprehensive collection of books, journals, slides, tapes, and videocassettes (>200,000 volumes), and subscribes to more than 14,000 electronic journals and 250 print journals that are not available electronically. The library serves as a resource library within the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and is a major health science resource library for the State of South Carolina and the Southeast.
The MUSC Library has received several prestigious awards from National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) for excellence in providing health information and promoting health awareness. In May 2006 the NCLIS Health Information Award for Libraries was awarded to MUSC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 Diabetes Coalition Library Partnership. Chosen from entries nationwide, the REACH 2010 program was judged as the best library program for encouraging healthy lifestyles and providing health information to citizens. The program is a collaborative effort of a library-community-campus partnership consisting of the MUSC College of Nursing, MUSC Library, county public libraries and other community-based organizations. In 2004 the Library received the NCLIS Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Award for Libraries recognizing the impact, innovativeness and replicability of its Hands on Health-South Carolina project. The NCLIS, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, has recognized outstanding libraries in 37 states for their contributions to health awareness and health education. Designed to serve the consumer and community health information needs of South Carolinians, Hands on Health – S.C. (www.handsonhealth-sc.org), a public web-site, pays special attention to health issues of particular importance in South Carolina, such as hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, disabilities, obesity, nutrition, family violence, and cancer.
The Office of Media Services and Digital Imaging within the Library provides services for illustration, design, and photography, including posters for scientific presentations and rapid production of slides from computer files. This service is very helpful to researchers when preparing abstracts and presentations for scientific meetings.