Medical Library

General Information

Erlanger Medical Center maintains an excellent Medical Library with more than 10,000 book volumes and 500 journal titles, most available online.  It is the largest health sciences library (and among the oldest health science collections) serving the region bounded by Nashville, Knoxville, and Atlanta.  The Medical Library is staffed Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.  Residents, teaching faculty, and medical students will appreciate the convenience of 24-hour access. Located on the 2nd Floor of Erlanger Medical Center, the following services are available at no charge to residents and medical students:

• Literature searches

• Access to online databases such as Medline (via PubMed, and Ovid platforms), The Cochrane Library, ToxEd, VisualDX, and CINAHL Nursing Index

• Interlibrary Loan Service

• Unlimited photocopying

Click here to go the actual Medical Library Home Page in the Erlanger website for more information about the library.

The Library also has an intranet site for physicians on Erlanger's internal network system.  Our residents, students, and teaching faculty have access to a variety of online databases and resources on computers within Erlanger via the Erlanger intranet. 

Library Policies

• Journals may not be checked out.

• Reference Books may be checked out for 3 days -- one renewal.

• Certain Reference Books do not circulate -- they are marked as such on the spine of the book.

• General Circulating Books may be checked out for 3 weeks - one renewal.

• Overdue fines are $1 per day for Circulating Books, $5 per day for Reference Books, and $10 maximum.**

• Overdue notices are mailed once a month.

• Renewals are taken in person or via telephone - dial ext. 7246.

• In the case of a lost book, you will be charged the replacement cost for a new copy.
  
  **There is a grace period for fines:  if you return a book within a week of its due date, you will owe no penalty -- It is far more important for us to have the book back than it is to collect fines.